Post Malone’s relationship with Australia has reached the point where arenas are no longer enough. After selling out his 2023 run and turning festival fields into mass singalongs during Spilt Milk, the Dallas artist is returning this October with the Australian and New Zealand leg of The BIG ASS World Tour, his largest headline shows in the region to date. Stadiums now feel less like ambition and more like inevitability.
Over the last decade, Post Malone has built one of the strangest and most commercially dominant catalogues in modern music, moving seamlessly between rap, country, pop, rock and melancholic acoustic confessionals without ever fully belonging to any one genre. A nine-times diamond-certified artist, he continues to operate at a scale few contemporary musicians can touch. His latest chapter, the country-leaning F-1 Trillion, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and pushed even deeper into Nashville territory with collaborations alongside Luke Combs, Blake Shelton and Morgan Wallen. ‘I Had Some Help’ alone spent six consecutive weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100, becoming one of the defining singles of the year.
That same period also saw Post Malone orbiting the centre of pop culture from every possible direction. Collaborations with Beyoncé and Taylor Swift helped earn him eight Grammy nominations in 2025, while appearances at Coachella and a record-breaking North American stadium run only reinforced how enormous this project has become. Then there’s the catalogue itself: ‘rockstar’, ‘Circles’, ‘Congratulations’, ‘White Iverson’, ‘Psycho’ and ‘Sunflower’ have become permanent fixtures of streaming culture, with ‘Sunflower’ becoming the first single in history to achieve double diamond certification.
Joining the Australian and New Zealand run is Don Toliver, whose rise increasingly feels unstoppable in its own right. The Houston artist has spent the last few years refining a sound that sits somewhere between psychedelic rap and widescreen R&B, turning albums like Heaven or Hell, Love Sick and Hardstone Psycho into cult favourites before fully breaking into the mainstream with OCTANE. Released earlier this year, the album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with more than 423 million first-week global streams, driven by viral tracks like ‘E85’ and ‘Body’.
Toliver’s world extends far beyond albums too. Recent work tied him to the GRAMMY-nominated F1 soundtrack, the Academy Award-nominated Sinners and SCREAM 7, where he co-produced the original track ‘CREEPIN’. It makes him a fitting addition to a tour built around artists who thrive on scale, spectacle and constant reinvention rather than traditional genre boundaries.
Alongside the stadium run, Post Malone will also headline Strummingbird Festival dates in Ballarat, Newcastle and the Sunshine Coast, turning the visit into one of the biggest Australian tours of the year. For an artist once treated as a fleeting streaming-era curiosity, these shows tell a very different story now.
THE BIG ASS WORLD TOUR AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND 2026 DATES:
Fri, Oct 9 – Melbourne, AUS – Marvel Stadium
Sat, Oct 10 – Ballarat, AUS – Strummingbird Festival*
Mon, Oct 12 – Brisbane, AUS – Suncorp Stadium
Thu, Oct 15 – Sydney, AUS – ENGIE Stadium
Sat, Oct 17 – Newcastle, AUS – Strummingbird Festival*
Sun, Oct 18 – Sunshine Coast, AUS – Strummingbird Festival*
Weds, Oct 21 – Auckland, NZ – Go Media Stadium
*Festival Appearance
The Live Nation presale starts on Wednesday 27 May at 11am (local) running until Thursday 28 May at 11am (local), or until allocation is exhausted. To purchase presale tickets, sign up now atlivenation.com.au/register and livenation.co.nz/register.
