J Balvin 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 on the calendar for either country, and the touring he has announced for 2026 is the Ciudad Primavera Tour in his home country, Colombia. Any list of 2027 Australian cities you may see online is not based on an announcement.
That said, the Colombian reggaeton star has become a regular visitor. He played his first Australian shows in July 2023, when he came for Splendour in the Grass at North Byron Parklands and added headline nights at Margaret Court Arena in Melbourne and the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney. Fourteen months later he was back on a full arena tour, the Que Bueno Volver a Verte Tour, which played Rod Laver Arena, Qudos Bank Arena, the Brisbane Entertainment Centre and Spark Arena in Auckland in September 2024.
This page explains what is and is not known about a J Balvin return to Australia and New Zealand, and gives a full account of his concerts here so far: the festival weekend in Byron Bay, the two quick-selling 2023 sideshows, the 2024 arena run with Sofi Tukker as special guest, the Auckland show that was moved by a week and the Perth date that never happened. Facts come from Wikipedia, the setlist archive and the tour announcements; anything uncertain has been left out.
There is no official J Balvin Australia Tour 2027. No promoter has listed an Australian or New Zealand date, no arena in either country has a J Balvin show on sale, and no festival line-up for the 2027 season published so far includes him. Wikipedia lists his headline tours as the La Familia Tour (2015), the Energía Tour (2016-2018), the Vibras Tour (2018), the Arcoíris Tour (2019), the cancelled José Tour (2022), the Que Bueno Volver a Verte Tour (2024), the Back to the Rayo Tour (2025) and the Ciudad Primavera Tour of Colombia in 2026. Only one of them, the 2024 run, reached Oceania.
The release calendar is the other clue to watch. After Rayo in August 2024 and Mixteip in 2025, Wikipedia lists Omertà, a collaborative album with the Medellín singer Ryan Castro, in 2026. His two visits to Australia so far came around new music: the 2023 trip followed his return to recording after a ten-month break, and the 2024 tour came between the singles that led into Rayo and the album itself. A tour for the newest records is possible, but nothing has been confirmed for Australia, New Zealand or anywhere else in 2027.
His Australian visits have also fallen in the southern winter: July in 2023 and early September in 2024. That pattern fits the gaps in the northern summer festival season, when he is often booked in Europe and the Americas. Whether a 2027 visit would follow the same timing is not known, and no festival in the region has named him for 2027.
Until there is an official announcement, treat any list of 2027 Australian or New Zealand dates, any ticket listing and any offer of a 'presale code' as unconfirmed. You can sign up below to be alerted as soon as a J Balvin tour of Australia or New Zealand is confirmed.
J Balvin's first concert in Australia was at Splendour in the Grass at North Byron Parklands, near Byron Bay, on Friday 21 July 2023. He had been announced on the festival line-up, which was headlined that year by Lizzo, Flume and Mumford & Sons, and he used the trip to add two headline concerts of his own. Both sold out quickly; the promoter later said the Melbourne and Sydney tickets had gone in under ten minutes.
The first of those sideshows was at Margaret Court Arena in Melbourne on Sunday 23 July 2023, the smaller of the two indoor arenas at Melbourne Park. The setlist archive has the full show: 31 songs, opening with 'Click Click Flash', 'Reggaeton' and 'Loco contigo', taking in three of the colour songs from Colores ('Rojo', 'Blanco' and 'Azul') along with 'Ginza', 'Safari', '6 AM' and 'Ay vamos', and closing with 'RITMO (Bad Boys for Life)', 'Mi gente', 'Qué calor' and 'In da Getto'. Two nights later, on Tuesday 25 July 2023, he played the Hordern Pavilion at Moore Park in Sydney.
The response led to a full arena tour the following year. The Que Bueno Volver a Verte Tour (roughly 'how good to see you again') was announced in March 2024 with Sofi Tukker as special guest on every date. It was first scheduled to open at Spark Arena in Auckland on Sunday 1 September, then play Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on Wednesday 4 September, Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney on Friday 6 September, the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on Saturday 7 September and RAC Arena in Perth on Tuesday 10 September 2024.
Two of those dates changed. The Auckland concert was rescheduled to Sunday 8 September 2024, with existing tickets valid for the new date, and the Perth show was cancelled because of scheduling changes, with refunds for ticket holders. As a result the tour opened in Melbourne and closed in Auckland, and Perth has still never had a J Balvin concert. The table below follows the dates on which the shows actually took place.
The Melbourne show at Rod Laver Arena on 4 September 2024 has a ten-song list in the archive, from 'Mi gente' and 'Dientes' to 'RITMO (Bad Boys for Life)', 'Qué calor' and 'In da Getto'. The Sydney show at Qudos Bank Arena two nights later is documented with 19 songs, opening with 'X' and 'Qué calor' and closing with 'Gato' and 'Doblexxó'. No song list is recorded for Brisbane or Auckland.
In all, the archive lists seven J Balvin concerts in the region: one festival appearance in Byron Bay, two concerts each in Melbourne and Sydney, and one each in Brisbane and Auckland. He has not played Adelaide, Perth, Wellington or Christchurch, and his only New Zealand concert so far is the rescheduled Spark Arena date of 8 September 2024.
The table below lists 7 documented Australia/NZ concerts by J Balvin between 2023 and 2024, with the most shows in Sydney (2), Melbourne (2), Auckland (1), Brisbane (1), Byron Bay (1). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.
| Date | City | Venue | Tour / event |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2024 | Auckland | Spark Arena | Que Bueno Volver a Verte Tour |
| 7 September 2024 | Brisbane | Brisbane Entertainment Centre | Que Bueno Volver a Verte Tour |
| 6 September 2024 | Sydney | Qudos Bank Arena | Que Bueno Volver a Verte Tour |
| 4 September 2024 | Melbourne | Rod Laver Arena | Que Bueno Volver a Verte Tour |
| 25 July 2023 | Sydney | Hordern Pavilion | |
| 23 July 2023 | Melbourne | Margaret Court Arena | |
| 21 July 2023 | Byron Bay | North Byron Parklands |
Concert data: setlist.fm
Across the 3 most recent documented Australia/NZ concerts with a full song list (23 July 2023 to 6 September 2024), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.
J Balvin's only Australian festival appearance so far is Splendour in the Grass 2023, at North Byron Parklands on Friday 21 July. He went on from Byron Bay to the Melbourne and Sydney sideshows the same week. Splendour has not been held since: the 2024 edition was cancelled in March 2024, and organisers said in January 2025 that the festival would not return that year.
No other Australian or New Zealand festival appears in his record, and no 2027 festival in either country has announced him.
José Álvaro Osorio Balvín was born in Medellín on 7 May 1985. He grew up listening to rock bands such as Metallica and Nirvana before reggaeton, and Daddy Yankee in particular, drew him into urban music. As a teenager he spent time in Oklahoma on an exchange programme and later lived in New York, then returned to Colombia and built a following in Medellín's clubs. His debut album La Familia (2013) broke him across Latin America.
His breakthrough came in 2014 with '6 AM', featuring Farruko, and 'Ay vamos', the first reggaeton video to pass one billion views on YouTube. Energía (2016), with 'Ginza', 'Bobo' and 'Safari', made him a star in the United States, and 'Mi gente' with Willy William became a worldwide hit in 2017, its remix with Beyoncé taking him into the US top ten. In 2018 he joined Cardi B and Bad Bunny on 'I Like It', a US Billboard Hot 100 number one, and released Vibras.
The joint album Oasis with Bad Bunny followed in June 2019, then Colores (2020), whose tracks are named after colours, and José (2021). He appeared at the Super Bowl LIV half-time show in February 2020 as a guest of Shakira and Jennifer Lopez. After a break from releasing music he returned in June 2023 with 'En alta', then released Rayo on 9 August 2024 with guests including Feid, Ryan Castro and Carín León, Mixteip in 2025 and Omertà with Ryan Castro in 2026.
Balvin has sold an estimated 35 million singles and is the artist with the most number-one songs on the Billboard Latin Airplay chart. Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in 2020, and Guinness World Records has called him the leader of a second-generation reggaeton revolution. He was the first Latino artist to headline Coachella, Tomorrowland and Lollapalooza, and he continues to sing almost entirely in Spanish, which makes his sold-out Australian shows all the more striking.
| Album | Year | AUS chart peak |
|---|---|---|
| La Familia | 2013 | — |
| Energía | 2016 | — |
| Vibras | 2018 | — |
| Oasis (with Bad Bunny) | 2019 | — |
| Colores | 2020 | — |
| José | 2021 | — |
| Rayo | 2024 | — |
| Mixteip | 2025 | — |
| Omertà (with Ryan Castro) | 2026 | — |
J Balvin's Australian story is short but it moved quickly. In July 2023 he came as a festival act, with a slot at Splendour in the Grass and two mid-size indoor shows: Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne Park's second arena, and the Hordern Pavilion, a historic hall at Moore Park in Sydney. Both sold out within minutes, which told promoters there was a much larger audience for Spanish-language urban music than those venues could hold.
The 2024 tour stepped up to the biggest indoor rooms in each city: Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Qudos Bank Arena at Sydney Olympic Park and the Brisbane Entertainment Centre at Boondall, plus Spark Arena in Auckland. That jump, from a festival booking to a national arena tour in fourteen months, is the clearest sign of how far Latin music has travelled in Australia.
A 2027 return, if one comes, would most likely start from those arenas. But no tour has been announced, and no venue has listed him for 2027.
Melbourne and Sydney are the only cities that have seen J Balvin twice. In Melbourne he went from Margaret Court Arena on 23 July 2023 to Rod Laver Arena next door on 4 September 2024; in Sydney from the Hordern Pavilion on 25 July 2023 to Qudos Bank Arena on 6 September 2024.
The 2023 Melbourne concert is also the longest set recorded in the region, with 31 songs, while the 2024 Sydney show is documented with 19. The promoter cited the speed of those 2023 sell-outs when it announced the 2024 arena dates.
New Zealand has had one J Balvin concert so far, at Spark Arena in Auckland. It was announced as the opening night of the 2024 tour, on Sunday 1 September, then rescheduled to Sunday 8 September 2024, so it ended up closing the run instead. Tickets bought for the original date remained valid.
He has not played Wellington or Christchurch, and no New Zealand date has been announced for 2026 or 2027. Spark Arena is the city's main indoor arena and would be the obvious venue for a return.
Western Australia is the gap in J Balvin's touring record. RAC Arena in Perth was on the original 2024 itinerary for Tuesday 10 September, the planned closing night of the tour, but the show was cancelled because of scheduling changes and ticket holders were refunded.
That makes Perth, along with Adelaide, one of the Australian capitals still waiting for a first J Balvin concert. Whether a future tour would include Perth is not known; no 2027 date has been announced in any Australian city.
A J Balvin concert is a fast, hit-heavy show built on reggaeton, with bright visuals and a long run of collaborations performed as medleys. In Melbourne on 23 July 2023 he played 31 songs, including 'Reggaeton', 'Loco contigo', 'Con altura', 'La canción', 'Rojo', 'Blanco', 'Azul', 'Ginza', '¿Qué más pues?', 'Ahora dice', 'I Like It', '6 AM', 'Tata', 'Medusa', 'Ay vamos', 'Otra vez', 'X', 'Bonita' and 'Mi gente', and finished with 'Qué calor' and 'In da Getto'.
On the 2024 arena tour the set mixed the older hits with the singles of that year. In Sydney on 6 September 2024 he opened with 'X' and 'Qué calor', played 'Mi gente', 'Dientes', 'La canción', 'Loco contigo', 'Amarillo', 'Safari', 'Ay vamos', 'I Like It', 'Rojo', 'Reggaeton', 'Ginza', 'Contra la pared', 'Bonita', 'In da Getto' and 'Cosa de locos', and ended with 'Gato' and 'Doblexxó'.
The list below shows the songs he has played most often at documented Australian and New Zealand concerts. A future tour would draw on the newer records too, including Rayo, Mixteip and the 2026 album with Ryan Castro, none of which has yet been toured in the region.
No tickets are on sale for J Balvin concerts in Australia or New Zealand in 2027, because no shows have been announced. There is no presale, no general sale date and no official presale code.
For the 2024 tour, sales opened with an artist presale and a promoter members' presale a few days before the general on-sale, and the promoter asked fans to buy only through the official channels it listed. A new tour would very likely work the same way. Buy from the outlets named in the announcement or from venue box offices, expect mobile tickets that may be tied to the buyer's name, and be wary of anyone selling 'presale codes'; genuine codes are always free.
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Is J Balvin touring Australia in 2027?
Not as of 9 October 2026. No Australian or New Zealand dates have been announced for 2026 or 2027. His announced 2026 touring is the Ciudad Primavera Tour in Colombia.
When did J Balvin last play in Australia?
At the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on Saturday 7 September 2024, on the Que Bueno Volver a Verte Tour. The tour then finished at Spark Arena in Auckland on 8 September.
When was J Balvin's first Australian concert?
At Splendour in the Grass at North Byron Parklands on Friday 21 July 2023, followed by Margaret Court Arena in Melbourne on 23 July and the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney on 25 July.
Who supported J Balvin on his 2024 Australian tour?
Sofi Tukker were the special guests on every date of the Que Bueno Volver a Verte Tour.
Has J Balvin played Perth?
No. A show at RAC Arena on 10 September 2024 was announced but cancelled because of scheduling changes, and tickets were refunded.
Has J Balvin played in New Zealand?
Once, at Spark Arena in Auckland on Sunday 8 September 2024. The show had first been set for 1 September and was rescheduled.
What songs does J Balvin play live?
His Australian sets have included 'Mi gente', 'Reggaeton', 'Loco contigo', 'Ginza', 'Ay vamos', 'I Like It', 'Qué calor', 'RITMO (Bad Boys for Life)' and 'In da Getto'.
What is J Balvin's latest album?
His latest solo album is Mixteip (2025). Wikipedia also lists Omertà, a collaborative album with Ryan Castro, in 2026.
Is there a presale code for J Balvin Australia 2027?
No. Without an announced tour there is no presale. Official presale codes are always free and come from the artist, the promoter or a card partner.
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