Cardi B has not announced any concerts in Australia or New Zealand for 2027. As of 9 October 2026 there is no tour, festival booking or one-off show in either country. Her first headline arena tour, the Little Miss Drama Tour, ran from February to April 2026 and stayed in the United States and Canada, and no international leg has been added since.
Cardi B's only visit to this part of the world so far was short and memorable. Over the 2018-19 summer she played four festival dates in six days: Origin Fields in Perth on Sunday 30 December 2018, Field Day in the Domain in Sydney on New Year's Day 2019, and the two Bay Dreams festivals in New Zealand, at Mount Maunganui on 2 January and Nelson on 4 January 2019.
This page sets out what is and is not known about Cardi B's plans for 2027, recounts those four shows in detail, and gives the background to a career that has made her one of the most successful rappers of her generation.
There is no official Cardi B tour of Australia or New Zealand in 2027. No dates, cities, venues or ticket details have been announced, and no Australian or New Zealand festival has published her name on a 2027 line-up. Until something is confirmed by the artist or a festival, treat any 'Cardi B Australia 2027' listing or 'presale code' as unconfirmed.
The context matters. Her second album, Am I the Drama?, was released in 2025, and the tour that followed, the Little Miss Drama Tour, played 35 arena shows in 32 cities between Wednesday 11 February 2026 in Palm Desert, California, and Saturday 18 April 2026 in Atlanta. Wikipedia reports 453,043 tickets sold and about US$70 million in gross, which made it the highest-grossing debut arena tour by a female rapper. No dates outside North America were announced for it.
Her history in the region also shows how she has tended to come here: not with an arena tour of her own, but as a headliner on the summer festival circuit. Australian and New Zealand summer festivals usually announce line-ups months in advance, so if she were to return that way, the news would come with a festival announcement. None has been made.
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Cardi B's first concert in Australia was at Origin Fields in Perth on Sunday 30 December 2018. The festival, previously known as Origin NYE, had moved to Langley Park on the Swan River foreshore and expanded to two days that year, and she topped the bill alongside Migos, with The Kooks, Pendulum, Tash Sultana, Duke Dumont, Winston Surfshirt and PNAU also on the line-up. Her set there was the longest of the four in the archive, at 14 songs.
The Perth set opened with 'Get Up 10' and included 'Drip', 'Money Bag', 'She Bad', 'MotorSport', 'Money', 'Ring', 'Be Careful', 'I Like It', 'Bickenhead', 'Finesse', 'Taki Taki' and 'Bartier Cardi' before closing with 'Bodak Yellow'.
Two days later, on Tuesday 1 January 2019, she played Field Day in the Domain in Sydney, the city's long-running New Year's Day festival, which also featured Migos, CHVRCHES, RÜFÜS DU SOL, Amy Shark and Flight Facilities that year. She performed an 11-song set on the Centre Field stage in the evening, running from 'Get Up 10' through 'Finesse', 'MotorSport', 'I Like It', 'Money' and 'Taki Taki' to 'Bodak Yellow' and, as a finale, 'Girls Like You'.
She then crossed the Tasman for Bay Dreams, New Zealand's summer festival, with two editions. On Wednesday 2 January 2019 she played the Trustpower Arena at Mount Maunganui, in the Bay of Plenty, and on Friday 4 January 2019 Trafalgar Park in Nelson, at the top of the South Island. Both New Zealand sets had the same 11 songs, starting with 'Get Up 10' and 'Drip' and ending with 'Bodak Yellow' and 'Girls Like You'.
Those four shows remain her only concerts in Australia and New Zealand in the setlist archive. She did not bring her 2026 arena tour to the region, so anyone who has seen her live here saw her at one of those festivals over that single summer.
The table below lists 4 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Cardi B between 2018 and 2019, with the most shows in Nelson (1), Mount Maunganui (1), Sydney (1), Perth (1). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.
| Date | City | Venue | Tour / event |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 January 2019 | Nelson | Trafalgar Park | |
| 2 January 2019 | Mount Maunganui | Trustpower Arena | |
| 1 January 2019 | Sydney | The Domain | |
| 30 December 2018 | Perth | Langley Park |
Concert data: setlist.fm
Across the 4 most recent documented Australia/NZ concerts with a full song list (30 December 2018 to 4 January 2019), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.
All of Cardi B's concerts in the region have been festival appearances. In Australia she headlined Origin Fields in Perth (Langley Park, 30 December 2018) and appeared at Field Day in Sydney (the Domain, 1 January 2019), both alongside Migos.
In New Zealand she played Bay Dreams at Mount Maunganui (2 January 2019) and Nelson (4 January 2019). It was a typical summer festival routing for an international headliner: New Year's Eve and New Year's Day in Australia, followed by the New Zealand events in the first days of January.
Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar, known as Cardi B, was born on 11 October 1992 and grew up in New York City. She became known through social media and reality television before launching her music career in 2016 with two mixtapes. In 2017 'Bodak Yellow' went to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, making her the first female rapper in the 21st century to top that chart with a solo song.
Her debut album, Invasion of Privacy (2018), debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and reached No. 5 in Australia. It set a streaming record for a female rap album, became the best-selling and highest-certified female rap album of the century, and made her the first solo female artist to win the Grammy for Best Rap Album. 'I Like It' gave her a second No. 1, and 'Girls Like You' with Maroon 5 a third.
'WAP' with Megan Thee Stallion debuted at No. 1 in 2020 and had a large cultural impact, and 'Up' followed in 2021. Those songs were later included on her second album, Am I the Drama? (2025), which reached No. 8 in Australia and made her the only female rapper whose first two albums debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The album set a Hot 100 record with 18 charting songs.
Cardi B is the female rapper with the most No. 1 singles on the Hot 100, five, and the only one with No. 1s in two different decades. She has four diamond-certified songs, the most among female rappers, with 'Bodak Yellow' the highest-certified female rap song. Invasion of Privacy is the most streamed female rap album on Spotify and Apple Music.
| Album | Year | AUS chart peak |
|---|---|---|
| Invasion of Privacy | 2018 | AUS 5 |
| Am I the Drama? | 2025 | AUS 8 |
Cardi B's only visit came at a high point. Invasion of Privacy had been out for less than nine months, 'I Like It' and 'Girls Like You' had both been No. 1 in the US during 2018, and 'Taki Taki' with DJ Snake, Selena Gomez and Ozuna was a current hit. Her festival sets in Australia and New Zealand were built around exactly those songs.
The run was short: four shows between Sunday 30 December 2018 and Friday 4 January 2019, in two countries and four very different settings, from the riverside lawns of Perth's Langley Park to the Domain in central Sydney, a sports arena at Mount Maunganui and Trafalgar Park sports ground in Nelson.
It was also her first time in Australia, which gave the shows a sense of occasion. Nearly eight years later, they are still the only chance local fans have had to see her live.
Perth was the first stop. Origin Fields had rebranded from Origin NYE and moved to Langley Park for a two-day festival across 30 and 31 December, and Cardi B topped the bill. Her 14-song set there included 'She Bad' and 'Bickenhead', which she did not play at the later shows.
Sydney followed on New Year's Day. Field Day in the Domain is one of the city's oldest summer festivals, and in 2019 it was celebrating 18 years. Cardi B's set was shorter, 11 songs, and she ended with 'Girls Like You' rather than 'Bodak Yellow'.
Neither Melbourne, Brisbane nor Adelaide saw her on that trip. Any future Australian visit, if one is announced, would be the first chance for fans in those cities.
New Zealand got two of the four shows. Bay Dreams began in the Bay of Plenty and by 2019 had a second edition in Nelson, which allowed headliners to play both the North and South Islands within a few days.
Cardi B played the Trustpower Arena at Mount Maunganui on Wednesday 2 January 2019 and Trafalgar Park in Nelson on Friday 4 January 2019. Both sets had 11 songs in the same order, from 'Get Up 10' and 'Drip' to 'Bodak Yellow' and 'Girls Like You'.
She has not played Auckland or Wellington, and nothing has been announced for New Zealand as of 9 October 2026.
The Little Miss Drama Tour of 2026 was Cardi B's first arena tour as a headliner, and it gives an idea of what a full show looks like. The opening night featured 37 songs across her career, including 'Bodak Yellow', 'Money', 'WAP' and newer songs from Am I the Drama?, with surprise guests such as GloRilla, Kehlani and Tyla during the opening weekend.
It played 35 shows in 32 cities in the United States and Canada, including two sold-out nights at the Kia Forum in Inglewood and two at Madison Square Garden in New York.
No international dates were added. Whether a full headline show like this will ever reach Australia or New Zealand is not known, and nothing has been announced.
Because her only visit came at the start of 2019, a large part of Cardi B's catalogue has never been played at a concert in Australia or New Zealand. 'WAP' with Megan Thee Stallion, which debuted at No. 1 on the Hot 100 in 2020, came out after those festival dates, as did 'Up' in 2021 and 'Outside', a US top-ten single from Am I the Drama? in 2025.
The 2018-19 festival sets were drawn almost entirely from Invasion of Privacy and the features of that year. 'Bodak Yellow', 'I Like It', 'Be Careful', 'Bartier Cardi', 'Drip' and 'Money Bag' all came from the debut album, with 'Money', 'Taki Taki' and 'Girls Like You' as the newer singles and collaborations.
For local fans, that gap is part of why any announcement would be closely watched. As of 9 October 2026, though, no Australian or New Zealand show has been confirmed.
Cardi B's Australian and New Zealand festival sets ran to 11-14 songs. Every one of them opened with 'Get Up 10', and the core of the set was the same each night: 'Finesse', 'I Like It', 'Money', 'Bartier Cardi', 'Be Careful', 'Taki Taki' and 'Bodak Yellow', all played at all four shows. 'Girls Like You' closed three of the four.
Her own arena show is much longer. On the Little Miss Drama Tour in 2026 the opening set ran to 37 songs, covering both albums, the mixtape era and features, with dancers and guest appearances.
If she returns to the region on a festival, expect a shorter, hits-heavy set; on a headline tour, a full show built around Am I the Drama?. Neither has been announced.
There are no Cardi B tickets on sale for Australia or New Zealand in 2027, because no concerts have been announced. No presale, on-sale date or venue exists.
Her past visits were sold as festival tickets, through each festival's official ticketing. If she is booked for a festival or announces a tour, buy only from the official festival or venue outlets, expect name-locked mobile tickets, and be wary of 'presale codes' circulating before any announcement.
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Is Cardi B touring Australia in 2027?
No dates are announced as of 9 October 2026, in Australia or New Zealand.
Has Cardi B ever performed in Australia?
Yes, twice: Origin Fields in Perth on 30 December 2018 and Field Day in Sydney on 1 January 2019.
Has Cardi B played New Zealand?
Yes, at Bay Dreams: Trustpower Arena, Mount Maunganui on 2 January 2019 and Trafalgar Park, Nelson on 4 January 2019.
Did the Little Miss Drama Tour come to Australia?
No. The 2026 tour played 35 shows in the United States and Canada between 11 February and 18 April 2026.
Has Cardi B played Melbourne or Brisbane?
Not according to the setlist archive. Her only Australian shows were in Perth and Sydney.
What did Cardi B play at Field Day?
An 11-song set from 'Get Up 10' to 'Bodak Yellow' and 'Girls Like You', including 'I Like It', 'Money' and 'Taki Taki'.
What is Cardi B's latest album?
Am I the Drama? (2025), which reached No. 8 in Australia and No. 1 in the US.
Is there a presale code for Cardi B in Australia?
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