Booking Pet Shop Boys

Three-time Brit Award winners and six-time Grammy nominees, since 1984 they have achieved 42 top 30 singles, 22 of these being top 10 hits on the UK Singles Chart, including four UK number ones: “West End Girls” (also number one on the US Billboard Hot 100), “It’s a Sin”, a synth-pop version of “Always on My Mind”, and “Heart”. Other hit songs include a cover of “Go West”, and their own “Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)”, and “What Have I Done to Deserve This?” in a duet with Dusty Springfield. With five US top ten singles in the 1980s, they are associated with the Second British Invasion.

At the 2009 Brit Awards in London, the Pet Shop Boys received an award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. In 2016, Billboard magazine named the Pet Shop Boys the number one dance duo/group over the 40 years since the chart’s inception in 1976. In 2017, the duo received NME’s Godlike Genius Award.

On 21 January 2016, Pet Shop Boys announced that their thirteenth album, Super, would be released on 1 April. The announcement was accompanied by the release of an album teaser track, “Inner Sanctum”. The lead single from the new album, entitled “The Pop Kids”, was released on 18 March 2016. “The Pop Kids” was the duo’s eleventh number one on the US Dance Club Songs chart. The album debuted at number three on the UK Albums Chart, selling 16,953 copies in its first week, becoming their 13th consecutive top 10 studio album. In the United States, Super debuted at number 58 on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 10,000 copies. It also debuted at number one on Billboard’s Dance/Electronic Albums chart, becoming Pet Shop Boys’ first number-one album on the chart since Disco 3 (2003).

Pet Shop Boys announced their ‘Further Listening’ reissues project, called ‘Catalogue: 1985–2012’ in June 2017. The first batch was released that July with a remaster of ‘Nightlife’, ‘Release’ and ‘Fundamental’. On 31 August 2017, Pet Shop Boys announced that the reissues for ‘Yes’ and ‘Elysium’ would be released on 20 October 2017. Previously released ‘Further Listening’ albums will also be remastered for 2018, with ‘Please’, ‘Actually’ and ‘Introspective’ reissues being released on 2 March 2018. The fourth and final batch of reissues – ‘Behaviour’, ‘Very’ and ‘Bilingual’ – was released on 31 August 2018.

Pet Shop Boys announced a live album/DVD/Blu-ray release, Inner Sanctum, in April 2019. It followed February’s EP Agenda. which contains four new songs with a political and pop culture angle. Neil Tennant said the release “contains three satirical songs and one rather sad song. I think it’s because of the times we’re living through”.

In 2020, their fourteenth album, Hotspot, was released on x2 Records/Kobalt. The corresponding Dreamworld tour was planned to start mid-2020, but was postponed twice due to the COVID-19 pandemic – it finally got underway in May 2022.

In September and October 2022, the band co-headlined the ‘Unity Tour’ with New Order, playing twelve arenas across Canada and the US.

On 31 December 2022, Pet Shop Boys will headline Edinburgh’s Hogmanay celebrations with a special Dreamworld show.