Kendrick Lamar Australia Tour 2027

Kendrick Lamar has not announced any concerts in Australia or New Zealand for 2027. As of 9 October 2026 there is no tour, festival booking or stadium date on the calendar for either country, and the verified tour lists used by this site contain no 2027 Kendrick Lamar dates anywhere in the world.

His most recent Australian visit was less than a year ago. In December 2025 the Grand National Tour with SZA played two nights at AAMI Park in Melbourne on 3 and 4 December and two at Allianz Stadium in Sydney on 10 and 11 December, and in between Lamar headlined the Spilt Milk festival in Ballarat, Perth, Canberra and on the Gold Coast. It was his first time playing stadiums in Australia as a headliner.

This page explains what is and is not known about 2027 and then tells the full story of his concerts in Australia and New Zealand, from his first club shows in December 2012 to the stadium nights of December 2025.

Kendrick Lamar Australia Tour 2027: what is announced so far

There is no official information about a Kendrick Lamar tour of Australia or New Zealand in 2027. No dates, venues, support acts or sale dates have been published, and no Australian or New Zealand festival has named him for 2027 as of 9 October 2026.

Lamar's visits have tended to follow album cycles. He toured here after good kid, m.A.A.d city in 2012, after To Pimp a Butterfly in 2016, after Damn in 2018, after Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers in 2022 and after GNX in 2025. Having just finished the Grand National Tour, which became the highest-grossing co-headlining tour of all time, he would normally need a new record or a new project before another major visit.

That is a pattern, not an announcement. Any '2027 Australia tour' or ticket listing you see today is not official, and leaked lists of dates should be treated with suspicion until they are confirmed.

If a tour or festival booking is announced, this page will be updated with the dates, venues and presale and general sale times. The quickest way to hear about it is the alert sign-up below.

Before the Kendrick Lamar Australia Tour 2027: Australia/NZ concert history

Kendrick Lamar's first Australian and New Zealand shows came in December 2012, two months after good kid, m.A.A.d city was released. The setlist archive lists the Metro Theatre in Sydney on 14 December, the Powerstation in Auckland on 18 December, The Hi-Fi in Brisbane on 19 December, the Enmore Theatre in Sydney on 20 December and the Palace Theatre in Melbourne on 21 December 2012. The Enmore show ran to 21 songs and mixed the new album with Section.80 tracks such as 'HiiiPoWeR' and 'Ronald Reagan Era'.

In February 2014 he returned as part of Eminem's Rapture Tour, alongside J. Cole and Action Bronson, with local rappers 360 and David Dallas on the Oceania bill. The tour played Western Springs Stadium in Auckland on 15 February, Etihad Stadium in Melbourne on 19 February, Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane on 20 February and ANZ Stadium in Sydney on 22 February 2014. Lamar's support sets were short, from eight to thirteen songs.

The To Pimp a Butterfly shows of March 2016 began at Western Springs Stadium in Auckland on 19 March, then moved to Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on 21 March and Allphones Arena in Sydney on 23 March, before Bluesfest in Byron Bay on 24 March. The sets opened with 'For Free?' and 'Wesley's Theory' and drew heavily on the new album, including 'These Walls', 'Hood Politics', 'u', 'King Kunta' and 'Alright'.

The Damn Tour reached Australia and New Zealand in July 2018. It opened at Perth Arena on 10 July, played two nights at Rod Laver Arena on 13 and 14 July and the Adelaide Entertainment Centre on 15 July, crossed to Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin on 17 July and two nights at Spark Arena in Auckland on 19 and 20 July, then returned for Splendour in the Grass at North Byron Parklands on 22 July and two nights at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney on 24 and 25 July 2018.

The Big Steppers Tour followed in December 2022, with RAC Arena in Perth on 1 December, two nights at Rod Laver Arena on 4 and 5 December, two at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney on 8 and 9 December, the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on 12 December and Spark Arena in Auckland on 16 December 2022. Those were the longest sets he had played here, with 27 or 28 songs.

Three years later came the biggest visit of all: the Grand National Tour with SZA at AAMI Park in Melbourne on 3 and 4 December 2025 and Allianz Stadium in Sydney on 10 and 11 December, with Spilt Milk festival dates in Ballarat on 6 December, Perth's Claremont Showground on 7 December, Canberra's Exhibition Park on 13 December and the Gold Coast Sports Precinct on 14 December 2025.

The table below lists 37 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Kendrick Lamar between 2012 and 2025, with the most shows in Sydney (10), Melbourne (9), Auckland (5), Perth (3), Brisbane (3), Gold Coast (1). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.

Concert data: setlist.fm

Kendrick Lamar Australia Tour 2027 setlist: the songs played most often in Australia and New Zealand

Across the 15 most recent documented Australia/NZ concerts with a full song list (1 December 2022 to 14 December 2025), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.

1. Alright — played at 15 of 15 shows
2. Backseat Freestyle — played at 15 of 15 shows
3. DNA. — played at 15 of 15 shows
4. HUMBLE. — played at 15 of 15 shows
5. LOVE. — played at 15 of 15 shows
6. Money Trees — played at 15 of 15 shows
7. Swimming Pools (Drank) — played at 15 of 15 shows
8. family ties — played at 15 of 15 shows
9. m.A.A.d city — played at 15 of 15 shows
10. ELEMENT. — played at 11 of 15 shows
11. King Kunta — played at 11 of 15 shows
12. N95 — played at 11 of 15 shows
13. Count Me Out / Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe — played at 8 of 15 shows
14. Like That — played at 8 of 15 shows

Before the Kendrick Lamar Australia Tour 2027: past Australia/NZ tours at a glance

• Grand National Tour (2025): 4 Australia/NZ shows — Melbourne, Sydney.
• The Big Steppers Tour (2022): 7 Australia/NZ shows — Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Auckland.
• The Damn Tour (2018): 10 Australia/NZ shows — Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide, Dunedin, Auckland, Yelgun, Sydney.
• To Pimp A Butterfly (2016): 4 Australia/NZ shows — Auckland, Melbourne, Sydney, Byron Bay.

Kendrick Lamar Australia Tour 2027 and Australia/NZ festivals

Lamar has headlined several of Australia's best-known festivals. He topped the bill at Bluesfest in Byron Bay on Thursday 24 March 2016, at the Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm site, and returned to the area two years later to headline Splendour in the Grass at North Byron Parklands on 22 July 2018.

In December 2025 he headlined Spilt Milk, alongside Doechii, ScHoolboy Q, Dominic Fike and Sara Landry, at Victoria Park in Ballarat, Claremont Showground in Perth, Exhibition Park in Canberra and the Gold Coast Sports Precinct. The festival sets were shorter than the stadium shows, at 22 or 23 songs, and opened with 'wacced out murals' and 'squabble up'.

Kendrick Lamar Australia Tour 2027: career and records

Kendrick Lamar Duckworth was born in 1987 in Compton, California. After a run of mixtapes he released his first album, Section.80, in 2011 and signed with Top Dawg Entertainment, Aftermath and Interscope. good kid, m.A.A.d city (2012), with 'Swimming Pools (Drank)', 'Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe' and 'Money Trees', made him one of the leading names in hip hop and reached No. 23 in Australia.

To Pimp a Butterfly (2015), which brought jazz, funk and spoken word into his music and featured 'Alright' and 'King Kunta', was his first No. 1 album in Australia. Damn (2017), led by 'Humble', reached No. 2, and in April 2018 it won the Pulitzer Prize for Music, the first time a work outside classical music and jazz had been honoured.

Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers (2022) went to No. 1 in Australia, as did GNX, released by surprise in November 2024. That year his public feud with Drake produced 'Like That' and 'Not Like Us', and with 'Squabble Up' and 'Luther' he collected four Billboard Hot 100 number ones from that period.

On 9 February 2025 Lamar headlined the Super Bowl LIX halftime show, which became the most-watched halftime performance in history. The Grand National Tour with SZA began in April 2025 and set a record as the highest-grossing co-headlining tour of all time, closing its run with the Australian stadium shows of December 2025.

Kendrick Lamar Australia Tour 2027: from clubs to stadiums

Few international artists have climbed through Australia's venues as steadily as Lamar. In 2012 he was playing the Metro, The Hi-Fi, the Enmore and the Palace Theatre, rooms of a few hundred to a couple of thousand people. By 2016 and 2018 he was filling Rod Laver Arena, Perth Arena and Qudos Bank Arena, often on two nights.

The Big Steppers Tour in 2022 kept to arenas, but the 2025 visit moved to football stadiums: AAMI Park in Melbourne and Allianz Stadium in Sydney, two nights each. That climb, from a Sydney club in 2012 to two stadium nights thirteen years later, is a measure of how much his audience here has grown.

Any future tour would therefore start from the stadium level, but no venue of any size has been announced for 2027.

Kendrick Lamar Australia Tour 2027: the Melbourne and Sydney doubles

Melbourne and Sydney have been the anchors of every Lamar headline tour. Rod Laver Arena hosted him in 2016, on two nights in 2018 and on two nights in 2022, before AAMI Park on 3 and 4 December 2025. In Sydney he moved from the Metro and Enmore in 2012 to Allphones Arena in 2016, two nights at Qudos Bank Arena in both 2018 and 2022, and then Allianz Stadium on 10 and 11 December 2025.

Sydney's arena appears under two names in the data: Allphones Arena in 2016 and Qudos Bank Arena from 2018, the same venue at Sydney Olympic Park. Melbourne's 2014 stadium date, at Etihad Stadium, was as a support act for Eminem rather than his own show.

Kendrick Lamar Australia Tour 2027: Auckland, Dunedin and New Zealand

New Zealand has been on almost every Lamar tour of the region. He played the Powerstation in Auckland in December 2012, Western Springs Stadium on Eminem's bill in 2014 and as a headliner on 19 March 2016, two nights at Spark Arena in July 2018 and another Spark Arena night on 16 December 2022.

The most unusual stop was Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin on 17 July 2018. The 2025 Grand National and Spilt Milk dates in the data are all in Australia, and nothing has been announced for New Zealand in 2027.

Kendrick Lamar Australia Tour 2027: Perth, Adelaide and the rest of the country

Perth has had Lamar on four separate visits: Perth Arena on 10 July 2018, RAC Arena (the same building under a new name) on 1 December 2022 and Claremont Showground with Spilt Milk on 7 December 2025. Adelaide's only date in the data is the Adelaide Entertainment Centre on 15 July 2018, and Brisbane last saw him at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on 12 December 2022.

The Spilt Milk run also brought him to cities he had not played before, with Ballarat's Victoria Park and Exhibition Park in Canberra in December 2025, and the Gold Coast Sports Precinct on 14 December.

Kendrick Lamar Australia Tour 2027: what to expect live

A Kendrick Lamar headline show in Australia now runs close to 30 songs. The Grand National shows at AAMI Park and Allianz Stadium had 29 or 30 Lamar songs in the archive, opening with 'wacced out murals' and 'squabble up', moving through 'tv off', 'euphoria', 'hey now', 'reincarnated', 'HUMBLE.', 'Backseat Freestyle', 'family ties', 'Swimming Pools (Drank)', 'm.A.A.d city' and 'Alright', and finishing with 'luther', 'tv off' and 'Not Like Us'. SZA had her own sections in the same show.

The 2022 Big Steppers sets opened with 'United in Grief', 'N95' and 'ELEMENT.' and ended with 'Crown', 'Mr. Morale' and 'Savior'. Across all his Australian and New Zealand shows in the archive, the most played songs are 'm.A.A.d city', 'Backseat Freestyle', 'Swimming Pools (Drank)', 'Money Trees', 'HUMBLE.', 'Alright' and 'Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe'.

Set lists stay close from night to night, with a handful of songs rotating: on the first AAMI Park night, for example, the archive lists 'N95', 'King Kunta', 'ELEMENT.', 'dodger blue' and 'GOOD CREDIT', which were not in the shorter Spilt Milk sets, and the show closed with 'gloria'.

Kendrick Lamar Australia Tour 2027 tickets and presales

There are no Kendrick Lamar tickets on sale for Australia or New Zealand in 2027, because no concerts have been announced. Any site selling seats or offering a presale code for 2027 dates is not official.

When his tours are announced, tickets go on sale through the official ticketing partner of each venue or festival, usually with one or more presales before the general sale. Buy only from official outlets or the venue box office, expect name-linked mobile tickets for stadium shows, and avoid anyone selling 'presale codes'.

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Kendrick Lamar Australia Tour 2027: questions and answers

Is Kendrick Lamar touring Australia in 2027?

No dates have been announced as of 9 October 2026.

When did Kendrick Lamar last play Australia?

In December 2025, with the Grand National Tour at AAMI Park and Allianz Stadium and four Spilt Milk festival dates, the last on the Gold Coast on 14 December 2025.

When did he last play New Zealand?

At Spark Arena in Auckland on 16 December 2022, on the Big Steppers Tour.

Did SZA perform on the 2025 Australian stadium dates?

Yes. The Grand National Tour was a co-headlining tour with SZA.

Has Kendrick Lamar played Splendour in the Grass?

Yes, he headlined Splendour in the Grass at North Byron Parklands on 22 July 2018.

Has he played Bluesfest?

Yes, on 24 March 2016 at the Byron Bay festival site at Tyagarah.

What songs does he play most in Australia?

'm.A.A.d city', 'Backseat Freestyle', 'Swimming Pools (Drank)', 'Money Trees' and 'HUMBLE.' top the list.

What was his first Australian concert?

The setlist archive lists the Metro Theatre in Sydney on 14 December 2012.

Is there a presale code for a 2027 tour?

No. With no tour announced, any code on offer is not official.