Nicki Minaj has not announced any concerts in Australia or New Zealand for 2027. As of 9 October 2026 there is no tour, festival headline slot or one-off show on the calendar in either country, and no new world tour has been published.
Her history here is short but busy. She made three trips in less than seven years: her first headline tour, the Pink Friday Tour, reached Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane in May 2012; the Pink Friday: Reloaded Tour, her first arena tour, played Auckland, Adelaide, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth in November and December 2012; and in January 2019 she headlined the FOMO festival in Brisbane, Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne, with a FOMO By Night show at Spark Arena in Auckland.
This page sets out what is and is not known about 2027 and gives a full account of her 14 concerts in Australia and New Zealand, from the Hordern Pavilion on 16 May 2012 to Flemington Racecourse on 13 January 2019, with the songs she played and the cities she has visited.
There is no official information about Nicki Minaj concerts in Australia or New Zealand in 2027. No dates, cities, venues, promoters or on-sale dates have been announced, and nothing has been published about a world tour that would include Oceania.
Her most recent tour, the Pink Friday 2 World Tour, ran from 1 March to 11 October 2024 with 79 shows in North America, Europe and Morocco. It became the highest-grossing tour by a female rapper, with $108.8 million from its first 70 shows, but it had no Australian, New Zealand or Asian leg. Her recording plans have also moved on: in September 2024 she dropped a planned deluxe edition of Pink Friday 2 in favour of work on a sixth studio album, for which no release date has been announced.
Her Australian visits have always been tied to a new record. The two 2012 tours followed Pink Friday and Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, and the 2019 FOMO run came a few months after Queen. A sixth album would be the most likely trigger for a return, but nothing has been confirmed, and this page does not guess at dates or cities.
If an Australian or New Zealand concert is announced, it will be listed here with the venue, presale and general sale details. Until then, treat any list of 'Nicki Minaj Australia 2027' dates, ticket offer or presale code with suspicion.
Nicki Minaj's first Australian concerts came in May 2012, on the Pink Friday Tour, her first headline tour. She opened at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney on Wednesday 16 May 2012, then played Hisense Arena in Melbourne on Friday 18 May and the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on Saturday 19 May. The sets ran to 17 to 19 songs, opening with 'Roman Holiday' and 'Did It On'em' and ending with 'Turn Me On' and 'Super Bass'. New Zealand was not part of that first visit.
She returned six months later with the Pink Friday: Reloaded Tour, her first arena tour. Several dates had originally been planned for October but were moved to November and December because of her role as a judge on American Idol. The Oceania leg opened at Vector Arena in Auckland on Saturday 24 November 2012, her first concert in New Zealand. Tyga, who supported most of the Australian dates, cancelled the Auckland show because of travel arrangement complications, and the local artist Zowie opened instead.
The Australian arena run followed: the Adelaide Entertainment Centre on Tuesday 27 November, the Sydney Entertainment Centre on Friday 30 November, the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on Monday 3 December, Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on Wednesday 5 December and Perth Arena on Saturday 8 December 2012. These were long shows of 34 to 36 songs, many of them cut into short versions, starting with 'Come on a Cone' and 'Roman Reloaded' and ending with 'Starships'. Critics of the tour praised a slick, theatrical production, while some found the costume changes slowed the pace.
Her third visit came in January 2019 as headliner of the FOMO festival, a one-day, one-stage event whose bill also included Rae Sremmurd, Lil Pump, Mura Masa, Kali Uchis, SOPHIE, San Holo and Anna Lunoe. The run began at the Riverstage in Brisbane on Saturday 5 January and Elder Park in Adelaide on Sunday 6 January. In between the Australian weekends she headlined FOMO By Night at Spark Arena in Auckland on Wednesday 9 January, an all-ages show; during it she took a New Zealand flag handed up from the crowd and twirled it above her head.
The FOMO run ended at Parramatta Park in Sydney on Saturday 12 January and Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne on Sunday 13 January 2019. The Melbourne date had first been announced for Festival Hall. These are her most recent concerts in Australia and New Zealand: a month later she began The Nicki Wrld Tour in Europe, and she has not been back to Oceania since.
In total the setlist archive lists 14 concerts in the two countries: nine in 2012 (three on the Pink Friday Tour in May and six on the Reloaded Tour at the end of the year, including Auckland) and five in January 2019 for FOMO. Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane have each seen her three times, Adelaide and Auckland twice, and Perth only once, in December 2012.
The table below lists 13 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Nicki Minaj between 2012 and 2019, with the most shows in Melbourne (3), Sydney (3), Brisbane (3), Auckland (2), Perth (1), Adelaide (1). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.
| Date | City | Venue | Tour / event |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 January 2019 | Melbourne | Flemington Racecourse | The Nicki Wrld Tour |
| 12 January 2019 | Sydney | Parramatta Park | The Nicki Wrld Tour |
| 9 January 2019 | Auckland | Spark Arena | |
| 5 January 2019 | Brisbane | Riverstage | |
| 8 December 2012 | Perth | Perth Arena | Pink Friday: Reloaded Tour |
| 5 December 2012 | Melbourne | Rod Laver Arena | Pink Friday: Reloaded Tour |
| 3 December 2012 | Brisbane | Brisbane Entertainment Centre | Pink Friday: Reloaded Tour |
| 30 November 2012 | Sydney | Sydney Entertainment Centre | Pink Friday: Reloaded Tour |
| 27 November 2012 | Adelaide | Adelaide Entertainment Centre | Pink Friday: Reloaded Tour |
| 24 November 2012 | Auckland | Vector Arena | Pink Friday: Reloaded Tour |
| 19 May 2012 | Brisbane | Brisbane Entertainment Centre | Pink Friday Tour |
| 18 May 2012 | Melbourne | Hisense Arena | Pink Friday Tour |
| 16 May 2012 | Sydney | Hordern Pavilion | Pink Friday Tour |
Concert data: setlist.fm
Across the 13 most recent documented Australia/NZ concerts with a full song list (16 May 2012 to 13 January 2019), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.
Nicki Minaj's only Australian festival appearances were as headliner of FOMO in January 2019, at the Riverstage in Brisbane, Elder Park in Adelaide, Parramatta Park in Sydney and Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, with the indoor FOMO By Night show at Spark Arena in Auckland. Unlike most festival bills, FOMO ran one stage with no clashes, so she closed each day after the full line-up.
Her festival sets were similar in length to a headline show: 24 songs at Flemington and 25 at Parramatta Park, 17 at the Riverstage and 16 at Spark Arena. She has not played Splendour in the Grass, Listen Out, Field Day, Rolling Loud Australia or Rhythm and Vines, and no Australian or New Zealand festival has announced her for 2026 or 2027.
Onika Tanya Maraj was born on 8 December 1982 in Trinidad and raised in New York City. She began rapping professionally in the early 2000s and built a following with three mixtapes between 2007 and 2009. Her debut album, Pink Friday (2010), opened with the largest sales week for a female rap album of the 21st century, topped the US Billboard 200 and reached No. 19 in Australia, with 'Super Bass' as its breakout single.
Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (2012) took her into dance-pop with 'Starships' and became her first top-five album in Australia, at No. 5. She returned to hip-hop with The Pinkprint (2014), home to 'Anaconda', which reached No. 19, and with Queen (2018), which included 'Chun-Li' and reached No. 4. Her verse on Kanye West's 'Monster' remains one of the most celebrated guest features in rap.
Her first US number-one singles came in 2020 with 'Say So' and 'Trollz'. Pink Friday 2, released on her birthday in December 2023, made her the female rapper with the most US number-one albums and reached No. 3 in Australia, her highest album placing here. 'Super Freaky Girl' became her first solo US number one.
With more than 100 million records sold, Minaj is the best-selling female rapper. Her awards include a Brit Award, eleven BET Awards, eight MTV Video Music Awards, nine American Music Awards and twelve MTV Europe Music Awards, and in 2023 Billboard and Vibe ranked her the greatest female rapper of all time. In 2025 Billboard placed her 16th on its list of the top women artists of the 21st century.
| Album | Year | AUS chart peak |
|---|---|---|
| Pink Friday | 2010 | AUS 19 |
| Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded | 2012 | AUS 5 |
| The Pinkprint | 2014 | AUS 19 |
| Queen | 2018 | AUS 4 |
| Pink Friday 2 | 2023 | AUS 3 |
Few international artists have toured Australia twice in the same year, but Nicki Minaj did it in 2012. The first visit, in May, was a short theatre-and-arena run of three shows that came in the weeks after Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded. The second, in November and December, was a full arena tour of five Australian cities and Auckland.
The difference between the two is clear in the set lists. In May she played 17 to 19 songs, mixing 'Moment 4 Life', 'Did It On'em' and 'Super Bass' with the new 'Starships', 'Pound the Alarm' and 'Beez in the Trap'. By the end of the year the show had doubled in length, with sections built around 'Va Va Voom', 'Right Thru Me', 'Fire Burns', 'Save Me', 'Marilyn Monroe' and guest-verse medleys including 'Monster', 'Mercy' and 'Bottoms Up'.
The Reloaded dates were also the first time she played Adelaide and Perth, and the only time so far that she has played Western Australia.
Sydney has seen Nicki Minaj in three different settings: the Hordern Pavilion on 16 May 2012, the Sydney Entertainment Centre on 30 November 2012 and the open-air FOMO site at Parramatta Park on 12 January 2019. The Sydney Entertainment Centre was later closed and demolished; the city's main arena today is Qudos Bank Arena at Sydney Olympic Park.
Melbourne's three shows were just as varied: Hisense Arena on 18 May 2012, Rod Laver Arena on 5 December 2012 and Flemington Racecourse on 13 January 2019. The Melbourne FOMO set opened with 'Majesty' and 'Hard White' and closed with 'Chun-Li', 'Moment 4 Life' and 'Super Bass', a structure close to the European arena shows she played weeks later.
No 2027 venue has been announced in either city.
New Zealand has had two Nicki Minaj concerts, both in Auckland and both at the same building under different names. On 24 November 2012 she opened the Oceania leg of the Pink Friday: Reloaded Tour at Vector Arena, with Zowie as the opening act after Tyga's late cancellation. On 9 January 2019 she returned to the same arena, by then called Spark Arena, for FOMO By Night.
The 2019 Auckland set had 16 songs, opening with 'Feeling Myself' and including 'Moment 4 Life', 'Super Bass', 'Only', 'Swalla', 'FEFE', 'Anaconda', 'Side to Side', 'Truffle Butter' and 'Monster' before ending with 'Chun-Li'. It is remembered locally for the moment she took a fan's New Zealand flag on stage.
She has never played Wellington or Christchurch, and there is no New Zealand date for 2027.
Brisbane is one of only three cities to have seen all three of Nicki Minaj's Australian visits: the Brisbane Entertainment Centre in May 2012 and again in December 2012, and the Riverstage on 5 January 2019, where her 17-song set ended with 'Plain Jane'.
Adelaide has seen her twice, at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre on 27 November 2012 and at Elder Park for FOMO on 6 January 2019; the archive has only a fragment of the Elder Park set. Perth had a single show, at Perth Arena on 8 December 2012, which closed the 2012 tour in Australia.
Whether a future tour would return to all five Australian mainland capitals, as the Reloaded Tour did, cannot be known until dates are announced.
A Nicki Minaj show in Australia or New Zealand has run anywhere from about 16 songs at a festival to 36 on a full arena production. Across her 14 concerts here the songs she has played most are 'Super Bass', 'Moment 4 Life', 'Beez in the Trap', 'Starships', 'Save Me', 'Pound the Alarm' and 'Turn Me On', all of which appeared on both the 2012 and 2019 visits.
The 2019 FOMO shows leaned on Queen and The Pinkprint: 'Majesty', 'Hard White', 'Rake It Up', 'BIG BANK', 'FEFE', 'Chun-Li', 'Anaconda', 'Only', 'Truffle Butter' and 'Feeling Myself', plus collaborations such as 'Swalla' and 'Side to Side'. At Parramatta Park she added 'Chun Swae' and 'Throw Sum Mo', the latter with her festival bill-mates Rae Sremmurd.
No Australian or New Zealand fan has yet heard the Pink Friday 2 material live. On the 2024 world tour that album added songs such as 'FTCU', 'Beep Beep', 'Pink Birthday', 'Red Ruby Da Sleeze', 'Everybody' and 'Super Freaky Girl' to the set, but what a 2027 show would contain depends on the sixth album, which has not been released.
There are no Nicki Minaj tickets on sale for Australia or New Zealand in 2027, because no concerts have been announced. Any site already selling seats, VIP packages or a 'presale code' for a 2027 show here is not an official seller.
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Is Nicki Minaj touring Australia in 2027?
No. As of 9 October 2026 no Australian or New Zealand concert has been announced.
When did Nicki Minaj last perform in Australia?
At Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne on Sunday 13 January 2019, the last of her FOMO festival dates.
When did she last play New Zealand?
At Spark Arena in Auckland on Wednesday 9 January 2019, for FOMO By Night.
How many times has Nicki Minaj played Australia and New Zealand?
The setlist archive lists 14 concerts: three on the Pink Friday Tour in May 2012, six on the Pink Friday: Reloaded Tour in November and December 2012, and five FOMO dates in January 2019.
Did the Pink Friday 2 World Tour come to Australia?
No. The 2024 tour played North America, Europe and Morocco, with no Oceania leg.
Has she ever played Perth?
Once, at Perth Arena on Saturday 8 December 2012.
Who supported her in Australia in 2012?
Tyga supported most Australian dates of the Pink Friday: Reloaded Tour; in Auckland the local artist Zowie opened after Tyga cancelled.
Is there a Nicki Minaj presale code for 2027?
No. With no shows announced, there is no genuine presale for Australia or New Zealand.
What is her highest-charting album in Australia?
Pink Friday 2 (2023), which reached No. 3.
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