Justin Bieber 2020 tour includes May 26 in S.D.

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Yummy! Justin Bieber is releasing a new single, a new album and going on tour.

“Yummy” is, in fact, the name of the Canadian-born teenpop star’s new single, due out Jan. 3. It will be followed by a new album, as yet untitled, and a North American concert tour that will stop in at least 45 cities and includes a May 26 show at Pechanga Arena San Diego (the venue previously known as the San Diego Sports Arena).

The Pechanga Arena concert actually qualifies as an intimate gig for the opening leg of Bieber’s tour, which also includes a May 22 date at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara and a May 29 date at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. The tour opens May 14 at Seattle’s Centurylink Field and concludes Sept. 26 at Metlife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.

As of this writing, the Pechanga Arena concert does not yet appear in the venue’s website, but it is listed on Bieber’s website and in a tour announcement released by Def Jam, his record company.

No ticket on-sale date has been announced for any of the tour dates, as of yet. Prices have also not yet been announced.

This will be Bieber’s first concert trek since the summer of 2017, when he abruptly canceled the remainder of his “Purpose World Tour.” He explained that decision at the time in a post on his Instagram account, saying “taking this time right now is me saying I want to be SUSTAINABLE. I want my career to be sustainable, but I also want my mind, heart and soul to be sustainable.”

Before he called it to a halt, Bieber’s 2017 “Purpose” tour, which included a San Diego concert, was earning an average ticket sales gross of $2.25 million per show, according to Pollstar magazine

Bieber, now 25 and married, announced his 2020 tour, via video, on Christmas Eve. The video also found him promoting his upcoming “Yummy” single and a Bieber-fueled documentary series, which will include — in his words — “all different stories.”

“As humans we are imperfect,” he noted in his video. “My past, my mistakes, all the things that I’ve been through. I believe that I’m right where I’m supposed to be. God has me right where he wants me.”

george.varga@sduniontribune.com