Carly Rae Jepsen Brings Day and Night Tour to The Chelsea Las Vegas

The Long Afterlife of "Call Me Maybe"

Every pop career has a hit that threatens to swallow it whole. Jepsen's arrived in 2012. “Call Me Maybe,” from her breakthrough album Kiss, topped charts in more than 47 countries and earned her two GRAMMY nominations, for Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance.

The usual script says that's where the story ends. Jepsen ignored the script. In 2015 she released E•MO•TION, which has since passed one billion streams worldwide. Publications including Pitchfork and Billboard have named it one of the defining albums of the 2010s. It is the record that turned a radio star into a cult hero, the kind of artist whose fans own the B-sides on purpose.

She kept going. Dedicated arrived in 2019, and The Atlantic called it “brilliant.” The Loneliest Time followed in the fall of 2022, written after a stretch of isolation. Then came the companion projects: E•MO•TION Side B, Dedicated Side B and The Loveliest Time. Most artists treat leftovers as leftovers. Jepsen treats them as a second helping, and her audience shows up hungry.

That’s the crowd you’ll be standing with at The Chelsea. They don’t come for nostalgia. They come because they think she’s one of the best pop songwriters working, and they'd like you to agree before the encore.

Day and Night: Symphonic Pop to High-Octane Disco

The new album, Day and Night on Interscope Records, arrived just before the tour announcement. It gave Jepsen her best debut since Kiss. The early reviews have been the kind artists frame.

Rolling Stone called it “Jepsen’s most experimental and exhilarating work” and said she “makes falling in love feel brand-new all over again.” Vulture went further, calling it “the most ambitious project of the Canadian singer’s 18-year career.”

The record moves from symphonic pop to dreamy psychedelia to high-octane disco. It’s built around a sense of playful abandon that Jepsen says she felt while making it. The focus track is “Versailles,” described as coming from the album’s “day” side. It’s a frenzied pop confection inspired by Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette and that film’s portrait of pleasure-seeking without limits. The music video was filmed in Los Angeles and directed by Kanya Iwana.

A Marie Antoinette fantasy, staged inside a resort that has built its whole identity on stylish excess? Vegas did not have to try very hard to book this one.

My prediction: “Versailles” becomes the moment people talk about on the way out. It’s the new song with the biggest swing, and a room this size suits that kind of maximalism. Arena pop has to aim at the cheap seats. A ballroom can aim at your face.

Why The Chelsea Beats the Big Rooms

This tour has some serious real estate on it. Live Nation’s routing includes Jepsen’s first-ever headlining shows at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado, and Madison Square Garden in New York. That’s 26 cities in all. The tour opens Thursday, April 15, 2027, at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton and closes Saturday, May 29, at MTELUS in Montreal.

Las Vegas lands near the halfway point. By then the production should be fully broken in, but nobody will be running on fumes yet. Historically, that’s the sweet spot of any tour.

Vegas also got the smaller room. In a city where a pop headliner now increasingly means an arena or a ticket to the Sphere, The Chelsea is a different proposition. It’s a flexible venue tucked inside The Cosmopolitan, closer in spirit to a grand ballroom than a stadium bowl. Fans heading to the Garden will be celebrating a milestone. Fans at The Chelsea will be close enough to catch the facial expressions, and with Jepsen that matters. Half the fun of her catalog is the wink inside the heartbreak.

If you’ve been weighing a flight to L.A. for the Forum date, I'd stay put. You get the same tour in a more intimate setting, and the walk to your hotel bed is shorter.

Carly Rae Jepsen Las Vegas Tickets, Presales and VIP

The presale scramble has already happened. The Artist Pre-Sale ran Tuesday, October 6, 2026, open to fans who registered in advance. A Verizon presale for customers in the Verizon Shine loyalty program ran from Monday, October 5, through the morning of October 6. General on-sale opened Thursday, October 8, 2026, at 10 a.m. PT.

Ticketmaster used some new defenses this round. A few fans had to complete a selfie check, and in rare cases verify their ID through Persona, before they could register for the Artist Pre-Sale. Anything that keeps bots away from a mid-sized room is a win for actual humans.

Tickets for the April 30 show are available through CarlyRaeMusic.com. Pricing wasn't included in the tour announcement, so check the listing directly. Be wary of resale markups on a venue this size, where demand can outrun supply quickly.

VIP packages

VIP packages vary by tier, but the offerings include:

• Premium tickets

• One tour poster

• An exclusive VIP gift item

• A turn at the Carly Rae Jepsen merchandise creation station, where you design your own special item

That last perk is the clever one. It turns the merch table from a transaction into an activity. Details and package options are at vipnation.com.

Planning a Night at The Cosmopolitan

The Cosmopolitan sits mid-Strip and is operated by MGM Resorts. It has more than 3,000 guestrooms across a vertical multi-tower design, plus a 100,000-square-foot casino. It's walkable from much of the center Strip, and rideshare drop-off is the least stressful way to arrive on a Friday night.

If you drive, the resort has self-parking. MGM properties charge for it, so check current rates on the Cosmopolitan website before you go.

The 7 p.m. start time is a gift. It leaves the whole back half of a Vegas Friday open, and this resort is built for that: bars, restaurants and nightlife without ever finding the exit. My move would be an early bite, the show, then a nightcap at the Chandelier while everyone argues about whether “Run Away With Me” or the new disco material hit harder.

Age policies weren’t specified in the tour announcement. Confirm on your ticket listing, especially if you’re planning to bring a teenager who discovered E•MO•TION on a parent's playlist.

The Verdict

This is the pop show I’d point people toward for spring 2027. A newly acclaimed album, the biggest tour of her career and a room that keeps everything up close is a rare combination. The die-hards will be there regardless. The real winners will be the casual “Call Me Maybe” fans who wander in and walk out converted.

Book a hotel room upstairs. You’ll want to keep dancing on the way to the elevator.