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Closing his arena run with more than 800,000 tickets sold, German rapper #Apache207 has established a new benchmark for touring in the DACH region.
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Bucking the recent trend of cancellations in the region, a new one-day festival centred on Indian talent has been announced for Abu Dhabi next March.
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U2, one of the highest-grossing live acts in history, have announced their first world tour in eight years, with The Greatest Show On Earth sure to be one of the most significant live events of 2027.
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A new Argentinian festival made waves this week when the Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Human League, and Happy Mondays were announced on the lineup – bookings the bands’ agents tell IQ they had “no knowledge of”.
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Four shows on Chris Brown and Usher’s ongoing co-headline US tour have been cancelled, as Brown awaits a key court date where he will be sentenced in relation to his conviction for affray in a London nightclub in 2023.
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Australian promoter Frontier Touring is putting the “next generation of artists and audiences” at the forefront of its new Melbourne concert series designed for a younger fanbase at an affordable price point.
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John Mayer has tripled his number of Sphere shows, lining up shows through June 2027, leading the latest round-up of tour news.
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Choosin’ Texas singer Ella Langley cancelled a sold-out concert on Friday (9 October) hours before kickoff due to a “serious security threat”.
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Open’er leads the latest round of festival news, with another wave of artists named ahead of its event between 30 June and 3 July in Gdynia, northern Poland.
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Ahead of its Colombian debut tomorrow (10 October) in Medellín, Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) is set to capitalise on what organisers call a decade of “continuous growth” in the EDM market of Colombia.
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Backstreet Boys have extended an upcoming run at Toronto’s Rogers Centre to nine dates, which will make the engagement the longest ever held at the stadium.
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California-Mexican band Fuerza Regida have expanded an upcoming engagement at Mexico City’s Palacio de los Deportes to ten dates, after demand far outstripped the two shows originally booked.
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Travis Scott, Charli xcx, The Killers, David Guetta, and Queens of the Stone Age are among the names revealed today to lead Lollapalooza’s trio of Latin American editions.
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#HYBE’s flagship global event, Weverse Con Festival, will debut internationally in India next year as the Korea-based conglomerate targets the rapidly expanding entertainment market.
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#Aerosmith have announced a ‘monumental’ return to the stage with California, Dream On: Aerosmith & Friends, a two-night engagement at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl.
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Two of the biggest Indian artists today, @DiljitDosanjh and #ArijitSingh, have both revealed ‘landmark’ interior tours of their native market, as demand for homegrown talent skyrockets locally and abroad.
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Organisers behind the Untold Dubai festival have postponed this year’s edition, delaying it by four months, the latest example in a series of event disruptions triggered by the ongoing regional war.
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American rockers Greta Van Fleet will embark on the 59-city Into The Beginning Tour across North America and Europe next year, leading the latest round-up of tour news.
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Zach Bryan has broken the attendance record for any event type at Gillette Stadium in Massachusetts, performing to over 73,000 fans twice in two days in a ‘Free Palestine’ T-shirt.
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Two major European festivals – Czechia’s Metronome Prague and Denmark’s Syd For Solen – will not return in 2027, with both organisers citing difficulties around hosting metropolitan events of their calibre in today’s market.
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