Lil Wayne 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. The dates he has announced are all in the United States: Lil Wayne: 20 Years of Carter Classics, a run of arena shows with 2 Chainz from October to December 2026, with a single rescheduled 2027 date at the Santander Arena in Reading, Pennsylvania, on Friday 26 February 2027.
His record in the region is short. The setlist archive lists just three Lil Wayne concerts in Australia, all as the special guest on Eminem's stadium shows of December 2011: Etihad Stadium in Melbourne on Thursday 1 December and the Sydney Football Stadium on Friday 2 and Sunday 4 December 2011. He has never headlined his own tour of Australia and has never performed in New Zealand.
This page explains what is and is not known about a possible Lil Wayne visit, tells the story of those three stadium nights in 2011, and looks at his long chart history in Australia and New Zealand, from Tha Carter III to Tha Carter V, his highest-charting album in both countries. Facts come from Wikipedia and the setlist archive; anything uncertain has been left out.
There is no official Lil Wayne Australia Tour 2027. No promoter has listed an Australian or New Zealand date, no arena or stadium in either country has a Lil Wayne show on sale, and no 2027 festival line-up in the region names him. Every date he has announced for the rest of 2026 and for 2027 is in the United States.
The current run, 20 Years of Carter Classics, is built around the songs of his Tha Carter series, which began in 2004. It follows the Tha Carter VI Tour, which began after Tha Carter VI came out on 6 June 2025 and kept him on the road in North America through the summers of 2025 and 2026. The autumn 2026 arena dates are in Charleston, San Antonio, Knoxville, Greenville, Lexington and, newly added, Savannah on Saturday 5 December 2026; the Reading show on 26 February 2027 is listed as a rescheduled date. 2 Chainz is billed with him on every night.
That schedule leaves no announced space for an Australian or New Zealand visit, and none has been reported. His only trip to the region so far came as part of a larger event, Eminem's 2011 stadium shows, rather than as a headline tour of his own. Any 2027 plan would have to be announced officially before it can be treated as real.
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Lil Wayne's three Australian concerts all belong to the end of 2011, the year of Tha Carter IV. Eminem had spent 2010 and 2011 playing a small number of festival and stadium dates rather than a full tour for Recovery, and in late 2011 those shows were extended to Australia. Wikipedia describes how the run began in 2010 with headline sets at three European festivals, T in the Park in Scotland, Oxegen in Ireland and the Openair Festival in Frauenfeld, Switzerland, continued with F1 Rocks in São Paulo that November and eight more festival dates in North America and Europe in 2011, and closed with three stadium shows in Australia. Wikipedia's article on the Recovery Tour lists Lil Wayne as the opening act for the Australian dates, the only part of the tour on which he appeared.
The first night was at Etihad Stadium in Melbourne's Docklands on Thursday 1 December 2011. The roofed stadium, since renamed and now known as Marvel Stadium, was the only Victorian date of the run, and Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth were not included.
The tour then moved to the Sydney Football Stadium at Moore Park on Friday 2 December 2011. Wikipedia records that a second Sydney show was added at the same stadium for Sunday 4 December, under the heading 'Eminem extends his Australian tour', which made Sydney the only city with two nights. The Sydney Football Stadium was demolished in 2019 and replaced by a new stadium on the same site.
Wikipedia also records a detail from those shows: during his 2011 tour in Australia with Eminem, Lil Wayne proclaimed his belief in God from the stage before starting his set. The setlist archive does not hold song lists for any of the three nights, so this page does not reproduce one.
The timing explains a lot about the booking. Tha Carter IV had been released on 29 August 2011, three months earlier, and it reached No. 9 on the ARIA albums chart, his first top-ten album in Australia. Wayne had also been featured on Eminem's 'No Love' in 2010, which gave the two a song in common.
In all, the archive lists three Lil Wayne concerts in Australia: one in Melbourne and two in Sydney. He has never played Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Hobart or Canberra, and no New Zealand concert is on record. His most recent Australian concert remains the Sydney Football Stadium on 4 December 2011.
The table below lists 3 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Lil Wayne between 2011 and 2011, with the most shows in Sydney (2), Melbourne (1). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.
| Date | City | Venue | Tour / event |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 December 2011 | Sydney | Sydney Football Stadium | |
| 2 December 2011 | Sydney | Sydney Football Stadium | |
| 1 December 2011 | Melbourne | Etihad Stadium |
Concert data: setlist.fm
Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. was born on 27 September 1982 and grew up in the Hollygrove neighbourhood of New Orleans. Discovered by Birdman, he signed with Cash Money Records at the age of 11, recorded as a teenager in the duo the B.G.'z and then in the Hot Boys with Juvenile, B.G. and Turk, whose album Guerrilla Warfare (1999) brought them to a mainstream audience.
His solo debut, Tha Block Is Hot (1999), was an immediate success, followed by Lights Out (2000) and 500 Degreez (2002). Tha Carter (2004) and Tha Carter II (2005) both debuted in the top five in the United States, and his mixtapes of the mid-2000s are credited with changing how rappers released music. Tha Carter III (2008) sold more than a million copies in its first week in the US, won the Grammy for Best Rap Album and gave him his first US number one single, 'Lollipop'.
Rebirth (2010) experimented with rap rock. I Am Not a Human Being (2010) was released while he was serving an eight-month jail sentence, and Tha Carter IV (2011) followed months after his release, with 964,000 first-week US sales. After I Am Not a Human Being II (2013), Free Weezy Album (2015) and a long dispute with Cash Money, Tha Carter V finally arrived in 2018, followed by Funeral (2020) and Tha Carter VI (2025).
Lil Wayne has sold more than 120 million records worldwide and won five Grammy Awards. In 2012 he passed Elvis Presley for the most entries on the Billboard Hot 100 by a male artist. He founded Young Money Entertainment, which signed Drake, Nicki Minaj and Tyga, and he is widely cited as an influence by younger rappers, among them the Sydney-born artist The Kid Laroi.
| Album | Year | AUS chart peak |
|---|---|---|
| Tha Block Is Hot | 1999 | — |
| Lights Out | 2000 | — |
| 500 Degreez | 2002 | — |
| Tha Carter | 2004 | — |
| Tha Carter II | 2005 | — |
| Tha Carter III | 2008 | AUS 47 |
| Rebirth | 2010 | AUS 51 |
| I Am Not a Human Being | 2010 | AUS 60 |
| Tha Carter IV | 2011 | AUS 9 |
| I Am Not a Human Being II | 2013 | AUS 43 |
| Free Weezy Album | 2015 | — |
| Tha Carter V | 2018 | AUS 6 |
| Funeral | 2020 | AUS 68 |
| Tha Carter VI | 2025 | — |
Sydney is the only city in the region to have seen Lil Wayne more than once. The Sydney Football Stadium hosted the Eminem shows on Friday 2 and Sunday 4 December 2011, the second added when Eminem extended his Australian tour. They are still his last concerts anywhere in Australia or New Zealand.
The stadium itself is gone. Opened in 1988 next to the Sydney Cricket Ground, it was demolished in 2019 and replaced by a new stadium on the same site. Any future Lil Wayne concert in Sydney would therefore be in a different building: Sydney's indoor arenas or one of its stadiums, depending on the scale of the event. Nothing has been announced.
Melbourne has had one Lil Wayne concert, at Etihad Stadium in Docklands on Thursday 1 December 2011, the opening night of the Australian run. The roofed stadium has carried several sponsors' names since and is now Marvel Stadium.
The other mainland capitals have never had him. Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide were not part of the 2011 dates, and there has been no Australian tour of his own since. For fans outside Sydney and Melbourne, a first Lil Wayne concert in their city is still waiting to happen, and none is scheduled.
Lil Wayne has never performed in New Zealand, but his records have done well there. According to Wikipedia's discography, Tha Carter III reached No. 10 on the New Zealand albums chart, Tha Carter IV No. 8 and Tha Carter V No. 3, his best position in either country.
In Australia, the same three albums reached No. 47, No. 9 and No. 6 on the ARIA chart. The pattern shows a steady audience for him across the Tasman despite the lack of live dates. No New Zealand concert has been announced for 2026 or 2027.
Lil Wayne's only Australian concerts came as Eminem's special guest, and the two have a long working history. Eminem features on 'Drop the World', a single from Wayne's Rebirth (2010), and Wayne appears on Eminem's 'No Love' from Recovery, the album behind the 2011 stadium shows.
Eminem himself has since returned to Australia and New Zealand for stadium tours of his own, but Lil Wayne has not been part of them. That leaves the December 2011 nights in Melbourne and Sydney as the only time Australian audiences have seen him perform live.
Wikipedia lists a long line of rappers who cite Lil Wayne as an influence on their careers and style, from Drake, Nicki Minaj and Kendrick Lamar to Future, Young Thug, Lil Baby and Playboi Carti. One name on that list is Australian: The Kid Laroi, the Sydney-born rapper and singer. It is a reminder that Wayne's reach in Australia goes beyond his own records and his three concerts here, into the sound of the artists Australian listeners grew up with.
Wikipedia also credits Wayne's use of Auto-Tune and his musical style with shaping the modern sound of hip-hop, especially trap. For Australian audiences who discovered him through Tha Carter III and Tha Carter IV, or through the artists he influenced, the absence of a headline tour since 2011 is all the more noticeable. No date has been announced to change that.
No song lists are recorded in the setlist archive for Lil Wayne's three Australian concerts, so we do not reproduce one. As a support act on a stadium bill in 2011, he would have played a shorter set than at his own headline shows, but the exact running order is not documented.
His current headline shows are a different proposition. The 20 Years of Carter Classics concerts are built, as the name says, around the five Tha Carter albums released between 2004 and 2018 and the 2025 sequel Tha Carter VI, with 2 Chainz on the same bill. Songs such as 'Lollipop', 'A Milli' and 'Got Money' from Tha Carter III are among the singles Wikipedia highlights from that series.
Because the archive has no Australian or New Zealand set lists for him, the usual list of the most-played songs in the region is empty or very short on this page. A first headline tour of either country would be the first time most of his catalogue has been performed live here.
No tickets are on sale for Lil Wayne 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.
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Is Lil Wayne touring Australia in 2027?
Not as of 9 October 2026. No Australian or New Zealand dates have been announced. His only announced 2027 date is the Santander Arena in Reading, Pennsylvania, on 26 February 2027.
Has Lil Wayne ever played in Australia?
Yes, three times, all as Eminem's special guest: Etihad Stadium in Melbourne on 1 December 2011 and the Sydney Football Stadium on 2 and 4 December 2011.
When did Lil Wayne last play in Australia?
At the Sydney Football Stadium on Sunday 4 December 2011.
Has Lil Wayne played in New Zealand?
No. There is no Lil Wayne concert in New Zealand on record, and none has been announced.
Has Lil Wayne ever headlined his own Australian tour?
No. His only Australian concerts were the three Eminem stadium shows of December 2011.
What is the 20 Years of Carter Classics tour?
A run of US arena dates with 2 Chainz from October 2026, built around the songs of the Tha Carter albums. Its last listed date is Reading, Pennsylvania, on 26 February 2027. It has no Australian or New Zealand dates.
What is Lil Wayne's highest-charting album in Australia?
Tha Carter V (2018), which reached No. 6 on the ARIA albums chart. Tha Carter IV reached No. 9 in 2011.
What is Lil Wayne's latest album?
Tha Carter VI, released on 6 June 2025.
Is there a presale code for Lil Wayne 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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