Madonna has not announced any concerts in Australia or New Zealand for 2027. As of 9 October 2026 there is no tour, stadium run or one-off show booked in either country, even though she released a new studio album, Confessions II, on 3 July 2026 and it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
Her last concerts in the region were the closing dates of the Rebel Heart Tour in March 2016: two nights at Vector Arena in Auckland, two at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, two at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre and two at Allphones Arena in Sydney, plus a one-off intimate show at the Forum Theatre in Melbourne. Before that, Australia had seen her only once, on The Girlie Show stadium tour of 1993.
This page sets out what is and is not known about Madonna's plans for 2027 and gives a complete account of her concerts in Australia and New Zealand, from the Sydney Cricket Ground on 19 November 1993 to Allphones Arena on 20 March 2016.
There is no official information about Madonna concerts in Australia or New Zealand in 2027. No promoter has listed dates, no venue has published a booking and no presale exists. Her manager said in 2026 that he was not yet sure whether she would tour behind Confessions II, and Madonna herself has spoken only in general terms about doing promotion first and something bigger later.
She has been active on stage in 2026, but at single events. She gave a surprise concert in Times Square in New York in June, performed 'Music' and elements of 'Danceteria' at the half-time show of the FIFA World Cup final on 19 July 2026, and appeared at AFAS Live in Amsterdam in August for WorldPride, where Kylie Minogue joined her on stage. She also opened the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards, where she won seven awards including Best Album and Artist of the Year.
Her last full tour, the Celebration Tour of 2023 and 2024, visited Europe and the Americas but not Australia or New Zealand. It ended in May 2024 with a free concert on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro attended by an estimated 1.6 million people. The Madame X Tour of 2019 and 2020, a theatre tour, also stayed in North America and Europe.
Until there is an official announcement, treat any 'presale code', ticket listing or leaked list of 2027 dates with suspicion. If Madonna confirms concerts in the region, this page will list the cities, venues and sale dates, and the alert below will tell you first.
Madonna's first concerts in Australia came ten years into her career, on The Girlie Show world tour of 1993, the tour behind Erotica. It was a stadium tour from the start. It opened at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Friday 19 November 1993, then played ANZ Stadium in Brisbane on Wednesday 24 November and three nights at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 26, 27 and 29 November.
After Melbourne the tour went to Adelaide Oval on Wednesday 1 December 1993, still her only concert in South Australia, and returned to the Sydney Cricket Ground for two more nights on Friday 3 and Saturday 4 December. The show had about 15 songs, opening with 'Erotica' and 'Fever' and including 'Vogue', 'Rain', 'Express Yourself', 'Like a Virgin', 'La Isla Bonita', 'Holiday' and 'Justify My Love' before closing with 'Everybody'.
Twenty-two years passed before she returned. The Rebel Heart Tour, which began in September 2015, finished with an Oceania leg in March 2016. It began in New Zealand, with Madonna's first concerts there, at Vector Arena in Auckland on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 March 2016.
In Melbourne she played Rod Laver Arena on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 March. Two nights earlier, on Thursday 10 March 2016, she had given a separate, much smaller show at the Forum Theatre, built around rarities and deep cuts, including 'Drowned World/Substitute for Love', 'X-Static Process', 'Joan of Arc' and 'Mer Girl', alongside 'Borderline' and 'Holiday'.
The tour then played two nights at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on 16 and 17 March and closed with two nights at Allphones Arena in Sydney on Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 March 2016, the last concerts of the Rebel Heart Tour. Over its 82 shows the tour grossed $169.8 million.
In total the table lists 17 concerts in Australia and New Zealand: six in Melbourne, five in Sydney, three in Brisbane, two in Auckland and one in Adelaide. Perth has never had a Madonna concert.
The table below lists 17 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Madonna between 1993 and 2016, with the most shows in Melbourne (6), Sydney (5), Brisbane (3), Auckland (2), Adelaide (1). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.
| Date | City | Venue | Tour / event |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 March 2016 | Sydney | Allphones Arena | Rebel Heart Tour |
| 19 March 2016 | Sydney | Allphones Arena | Rebel Heart Tour |
| 17 March 2016 | Brisbane | Brisbane Entertainment Centre | Rebel Heart Tour |
| 16 March 2016 | Brisbane | Brisbane Entertainment Centre | Rebel Heart Tour |
| 13 March 2016 | Melbourne | Rod Laver Arena | Rebel Heart Tour |
| 12 March 2016 | Melbourne | Rod Laver Arena | Rebel Heart Tour |
| 10 March 2016 | Melbourne | Forum Theatre | |
| 6 March 2016 | Auckland | Vector Arena | Rebel Heart Tour |
| 5 March 2016 | Auckland | Vector Arena | Rebel Heart Tour |
| 4 December 1993 | Sydney | Sydney Cricket Ground | The Girlie Show |
| 3 December 1993 | Sydney | Sydney Cricket Ground | The Girlie Show |
| 1 December 1993 | Adelaide | Adelaide Oval | The Girlie Show |
| 29 November 1993 | Melbourne | Melbourne Cricket Ground | The Girlie Show |
| 27 November 1993 | Melbourne | Melbourne Cricket Ground | The Girlie Show |
| 26 November 1993 | Melbourne | Melbourne Cricket Ground | The Girlie Show |
| 24 November 1993 | Brisbane | ANZ Stadium | The Girlie Show |
| 19 November 1993 | Sydney | Sydney Cricket Ground | The Girlie Show |
Concert data: setlist.fm
Across the 15 most recent documented Australia/NZ concerts with a full song list (26 November 1993 to 20 March 2016), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.
Madonna Louise Ciccone was born on 16 August 1958 in Bay City, Michigan, and moved to New York in 1978. Her debut album Madonna (1983) was followed by Like a Virgin (1984), which reached No. 1 in New Zealand, the UK and the US among other countries and became the first album by a woman to sell more than five million copies in the US. True Blue (1986) and Like a Prayer (1989) made her one of the defining stars of the decade.
In the 1990s she released Erotica (1992), the album toured in Australia in 1993, Bedtime Stories (1994), the soundtrack to Evita (1996) and Ray of Light (1998), which won four Grammy Awards. Music (2000), American Life (2003) and Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005), with 'Hung Up', kept her at the top of the charts into the new century.
Hard Candy (2008) completed her contract with Warner, and her greatest-hits set Celebration (2009) topped charts in several countries. MDNA (2012), Rebel Heart (2015) and Madame X (2019) followed, and in 2021 she returned to Warner Records. In June 2023 a serious bacterial infection put her in intensive care and delayed the Celebration Tour by three months.
In July 2026 she released Confessions II, her fifteenth studio album and a follow-up to Confessions on a Dance Floor, made again with producer Stuart Price. It was critically acclaimed and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Its singles include 'Bring Your Love', 'Love Sensation' and 'Danceteria', later remixed with Charli XCX. Madonna is widely recognised as the best-selling female recording artist of all time.
| Album | Year | AUS chart peak |
|---|---|---|
| Madonna | 1983 | — |
| Like a Virgin | 1984 | — |
| True Blue | 1986 | — |
| Like a Prayer | 1989 | — |
| Erotica | 1992 | — |
| Bedtime Stories | 1994 | — |
| Ray of Light | 1998 | — |
| Music | 2000 | — |
| American Life | 2003 | — |
| Confessions on a Dance Floor | 2005 | — |
| Hard Candy | 2008 | — |
| MDNA | 2012 | — |
| Rebel Heart | 2015 | — |
| Madame X | 2019 | — |
| Confessions II | 2026 | — |
The Girlie Show was Madonna's only stadium tour of Australia. Eight concerts at cricket and football grounds in November and December 1993 put her in front of very large outdoor crowds at the Sydney Cricket Ground, the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Adelaide Oval and the Brisbane stadium then known as ANZ Stadium.
Melbourne and Sydney each had three nights. Her later Australian concerts, in 2016, were held indoors in arenas and a theatre.
The most unusual Madonna concert in Australia took place at the Forum Theatre on Flinders Street, Melbourne, on Thursday 10 March 2016. It was a separate show from the Rebel Heart arena dates, in a theatre holding a small fraction of an arena crowd.
The setlist was built from songs she rarely or never played on her main tours, such as 'X-Static Process', 'Nobody's Perfect', 'Easy Ride', 'Intervention' and 'Paradise (Not for Me)', plus a version of 'Send In the Clowns'.
Madonna's only concerts in New Zealand so far were at Vector Arena in Auckland on 5 and 6 March 2016, the start of the Rebel Heart Tour's final leg. The Girlie Show of 1993 had not included New Zealand.
Both Auckland shows had about 20 songs, from 'Iconic' and 'Bitch I'm Madonna' to 'Material Girl', 'La Vie en rose', 'Unapologetic Bitch' and 'Holiday'.
Sydney has hosted five Madonna concerts at two very different venues. The first three were open-air nights at the Sydney Cricket Ground in Moore Park: the opening show of The Girlie Show in Australia on 19 November 1993 and the last two nights of that tour on 3 and 4 December 1993.
The other two were indoors at Allphones Arena at Sydney Olympic Park on 19 and 20 March 2016. The second of those was the final concert of the whole Rebel Heart Tour, which had begun in Montreal in September 2015, so the tour's last bows were taken in Sydney.
Between those two visits Sydney waited more than 22 years, from December 1993 to March 2016. As of 9 October 2026 the city has not seen her since, and no Sydney date has been announced for 2027.
Brisbane is the only Australian city to have seen Madonna on both tours at very different scales. In 1993 she played a single stadium show at the ground listed in the concert records as ANZ Stadium, on Wednesday 24 November.
In 2016 the city had two arena nights at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre in Boondall, on Wednesday 16 and Thursday 17 March. The first included 'Can't Get You Out of My Head', a Kylie Minogue song, in the acoustic section, and 'Crazy for You'.
Perth is the only mainland state capital where Madonna has never performed. Neither the 1993 stadium tour nor the 2016 arena leg went west, and Adelaide's single concert, at Adelaide Oval on 1 December 1993, is now nearly 33 years old.
Whether a future tour would add those cities is unknown; nothing has been announced for any Australian or New Zealand city.
The 2016 Rebel Heart shows in Australia had 21 to 23 songs. They opened with 'Iconic', 'Bitch I'm Madonna' and 'Burning Up', moved through 'Holy Water', 'Devil Pray', 'Body Shop', 'True Blue', 'Deeper and Deeper' and 'Like a Virgin', and included an acoustic section with 'La Isla Bonita', 'Dress You Up' and a nightly rotating song, before 'Rebel Heart', 'Music', 'Candy Shop', 'Material Girl', 'La Vie en rose', 'Unapologetic Bitch' and a closing 'Holiday'.
The rotating slot changed from city to city. Melbourne heard 'Fever' and 'Send In the Clowns', Brisbane 'Can't Get You Out of My Head' and 'Crazy for You', and Sydney 'Take a Bow' and 'Like a Prayer'. 'Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend' also appeared on some nights.
The 1993 Girlie Show was shorter, about 15 songs, and much more theatrical. 'Holiday', 'La Isla Bonita', 'Like a Virgin' and 'Deeper and Deeper' are the songs that link both tours, and they are among her most-played titles in Australia and New Zealand, as the table below shows.
There are no Madonna tickets on sale for Australia or New Zealand in 2027, because no concerts have been announced. Any site already selling seats or offering a presale code is not official.
If concerts are announced, expect a fan-club and promoter presale followed by a general sale through the official seller named by each venue. Buy only there or at the venue box office, keep name-locked mobile tickets in the official app and use only the authorised resale facility if you cannot attend.
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Is Madonna touring Australia in 2027?
No. As of 9 October 2026 no concerts have been announced in Australia or New Zealand.
When did Madonna last perform in Australia?
At Allphones Arena in Sydney on Sunday 20 March 2016, the final night of the Rebel Heart Tour.
Has Madonna ever played New Zealand?
Yes, twice, at Vector Arena in Auckland on 5 and 6 March 2016.
Did the Celebration Tour come to Australia?
No. The 2023-2024 Celebration Tour played Europe and the Americas only.
What is Madonna's latest album?
Confessions II, released on 3 July 2026.
When was Madonna's first Australian concert?
At the Sydney Cricket Ground on Friday 19 November 1993, on The Girlie Show tour.
What was the Forum Theatre show?
A separate small-venue concert in Melbourne on 10 March 2016, built around rarely played songs, between the Rebel Heart arena dates.
Has Madonna played Perth?
No. Perth has never hosted a Madonna concert.
Is there a Madonna presale code for 2027?
No. Nothing is on sale, so any code offered now is not genuine.
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