Nicole Scherzinger, Ashley Roberts and Kimberly Wyatt launched the PCD Forever Tour on Wednesday, Sept. 9, at Copenhagen’s Royal Arena. The 23-song concert moved through the Pussycat Dolls’ catalog before giving each member an individual spotlight. It marked their first arena performance together since 2009. Lil Kim is supporting the European and United Kingdom dates.

The current tour is significantly smaller than the reunion announced in March. At that point, the group returned as a trio with a new Mike Sabath single, “Club Song,” and a 53-date schedule. According to the dates published after opening night, 20 shows remain across Europe and the U.K. The run concludes at London’s The O2 on Oct. 13, followed by a single stadium performance in São Paulo on Oct. 30.

The group has not described the tour as a farewell. The Pussycat Dolls have announced no formal ending, and the name PCD Forever Tour suggests that the current plan is continuation rather than closure.

The North American leg was canceled in the spring

On May 4, roughly one month before the American shows were scheduled to begin, the group canceled its entire North American run. The official statement said the decision followed “an honest look at the North American run” but did not provide a more specific reason.

The cancellation came during a busy period for tour changes. Meghan Trainor cited the need to spend time with her children. Zayn referred to health concerns while retaining his U.K. dates. Post Malone and Jelly Roll postponed the opening section of a stadium tour, pointing to an unfinished album.

The scale of the current run is easier to understand when compared with the group’s previous tour. Doll Domination ran for 51 shows between January and July 2009 and reported 231,711 tickets sold and $14.3 million in box office revenue from 19 concerts. At that time, the Pussycat Dolls were an active Interscope act touring behind a current album rather than marking an anniversary.

The 2026 reunion is centered on the 20th anniversary of PCD, with both that album and Doll Domination reissued on May 8. The surviving schedule also shows where the strongest demand may be. Nine of the 20 remaining dates are in the United Kingdom and Ireland, beginning in Birmingham on Sept. 29 and ending at The O2 in London.

The group’s recent chart history reinforces that regional focus. “React,” the 2020 comeback single, reached No. 29 on the Official U.K. Singles Chart but did not chart in the United States. The Pussycat Dolls have maintained a stronger connection with British radio and television than with the American touring market in recent years, and the 2026 routing reflects that reality.

Lil’ Kim connects the tour to the group’s hip-hop roots

Lil’ Kim is more than a high-profile opening act for this tour. Her booking connects directly to the musical formula that helped make the Pussycat Dolls successful. The group was assembled at Interscope during an era when rap features often helped pop songs cross into radio and music television.

The three biggest singles from the group’s original run all included prominent rap appearances: Busta Rhymes on “Don’t Cha,” Snoop Dogg on “Buttons” and Missy Elliott on “Whatcha Think About That.” The arrangement typically placed the featured rapper after the group’s main vocal sections, using hip-hop credibility to broaden the songs’ commercial reach.

Kim’s presence closes that musical loop, whether or not the booking was designed with that history in mind. She is also a Grammy winner, having received Best Pop Collaboration in 2002 for “Lady Marmalade” with Christina Aguilera, Mya and Pink. That award is sometimes overlooked by writers who focus only on wins in rap categories.

Kim’s visual and lyrical influence also predates the Pussycat Dolls’ arena image. Her combination of fashion, sexuality and confident performance helped establish a pop culture vocabulary that the Dolls later adapted for a mainstream audience. Deja Vu is also scheduled to appear on the European and U.K. dates. Mya, who was announced in March for select performances, is not listed on the current itinerary.

Three members are touring, while three are absent

Scherzinger, Roberts and Wyatt are performing as the Pussycat Dolls. Carmit Bachar, Jessica Sutta and Melody Thornton are not part of the current lineup, making the reunion’s membership one of its central storylines.

Sutta said on the podcast “The Maverick Approach” in March that the excluded members were not informed before the reunion was announced. She said Scherzinger called her on the day the news became public, but that she did not answer. Sutta later said, “I don’t plan to call her back”, while arguing that Scherzinger’s support for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had made her a liability for the brand.

That explanation cannot be independently verified, and it is not the first time former members have described communication problems surrounding a reunion. When the 2020 reunion tour was canceled in January 2022, Sutta and Bachar said they learned about the decision through Scherzinger’s Instagram post rather than directly from the group. Thornton has now been absent from two consecutive reunion attempts.

The lineup dispute also sits within a broader ownership conflict that took years to resolve. Robin Antin founded the Pussycat Dolls in 1995 as a neo-burlesque troupe in Los Angeles and brought Scherzinger into the recording group in 2003. Antin later sued Scherzinger over profit-sharing arrangements and creative control. The dispute ended in November 2025 with a confidential settlement.

That settlement cleared a legal obstacle to the 2026 tour, but its specific terms have not been made public. As a result, it is not known which members were covered by the agreement or how it shaped the current touring lineup.

The Copenhagen setlist puts Scherzinger at the center

The opening-night setlist shows how the reunion has been structured. Eight group songs begin the concert, including “When I Grow Up,” “Beep,” “Bottle Pop,” “I Don’t Need a Man” and “Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny).” The show then divides into individual sections for Wyatt, Roberts and Scherzinger.

Wyatt performs two songs from her Her Majesty and the Wolves project as well as “Candy,” her collaboration with Aggro Santos. Roberts has an individual moment with “Woman Up.” Scherzinger receives five songs, four of them from her solo catalog.

Her fifth solo selection is “As If We Never Said Goodbye,” the Sunset Boulevard number she performed as Norma Desmond before winning the 2025 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical. Including that Broadway showcase in the middle of a Pussycat Dolls concert makes the balance of the reunion clear: the anniversary celebrates the group, but it also provides a platform for Scherzinger’s current career.

The group returns after the solo sections for “Buttons,” “Stickwitu,” “Hush Hush,” “Club Song,” “React” and “Don’t Cha.” Before the tour began, Scherzinger, who is 48, told Billboard that the goal was to “give them what they want” while adding material fans might not expect. In Copenhagen, the most substantial surprise was the amount of solo material from her résumé.

São Paulo will be the tour’s final scheduled stop

The final date currently on the calendar is also a first for the group. On Oct. 30, the Pussycat Dolls will perform in Brazil for the first time at Nubank Parque in São Paulo. Pabllo Vittar is scheduled to open with a Club Vittar DJ set rather than a conventional live performance. Vittar previously recorded a “React” remix in 2020, but that collaboration was shelved after the Brazilian leg of the planned reunion tour collapsed.

The São Paulo concert is promoted by 30e with Itaú Live. No further dates have been announced beyond the Brazil performance, and the group has not confirmed whether it plans to record new music after the tour.

There is also no farewell language attached to the final show. The São Paulo date is not being marketed as the group’s last concert, and no member has announced a permanent ending. Still, the group’s history makes the uncertainty meaningful. The Doll Domination tour ended on July 31, 2009, without being labeled a farewell. The Pussycat Dolls dissolved the following year, and 17 years passed before three members returned to an arena stage together.