2025 tours stack up: Coldplay, Kylie Minogue, Oasis

An abundance of tours have been announced over recent days, including a venture down under for Oasis, new North American dates from Coldplay, and Kylie Minogue’s biggest outing in over a decade.

Oasis has announced that their 2025 reunion world tour will head to Australia next year for stops in Melbourne and Sydney. The Gallagher brothers will play Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium (cap. 56,347) on 31 October and Sydney’s Accor Stadium on 7 November (83,500).

The dates follow previously announced legs across the UK, including seven nights at London’s Wembley Stadium, and North America. Produced by Live Nation and SJM Concerts, the venture will bring the pair to stadiums in Manchester, Chicago, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and more next year.

The two shows are promoted by Live Nation Australia, with a private ballot giving fans presale access before the 15 October general sale.

“The number of stadium-level acts touring today is unprecedented”

Coldplay is set to return to North America on their Music of the Spheres world tour with a new batch of dates. The record-shattering run will return the British hitmakers to stadiums across the US and Canada next summer, including Las Vegas’s Allegiant Stadium (65,000), Nashville’s Nissan Stadium (69,143), Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium (65,326), and more.

Both Coldplay and Oasis are due to perform at Toronto’s newest venue, the 50,000-capacity, Rogers Stadium. The Live Nation-backed purpose-built venue will operate seasonally and is designed to capitalise on the influx of tours from A-list artists.

“The number of stadium-level acts touring today is unprecedented, with more acts than available nights at existing venues. That’s why we’re making this investment—to ensure Toronto fans don’t miss out on world-class artists,” said Erik Hoffman, president, music at Live Nation Canada, during the September stadium announcement.

Coldplay’s Live Nation-promoted tour will also bring the group to Abu Dhabi for four nights, Mumbai for three, Hong Kong for three, and Seoul for six shows early next year, followed by the new North American dates. The tour is currently slated to end with a second UK leg, including two nights in Hull and 10 in London next autumn.

Ticket sales for the global trek have already surpassed 10 million, with the band performing across five continents since launching the tour in March 2022. It became the first tour by a band to gross over $1 billion from a single tour, joining Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour in the billionaires club.

During the UK dates announcement, Coldplay pledged 10% of proceeds from their 2025 UK dates to Music Venue Trust to support upcoming artists and grassroots music venues, some of which they played on their rise to global stardom.

Kylie Minogue is due to embark on her biggest tour in over a decade

Australian pop icon Kylie Minogue has unveiled North American and European legs for her Tension Tour, expanding the venture to four continents. The Padam Padam singer will play across 16 arenas across the US and Canada, including NYC’s Madison Square Garden (19,500) and LA’s Crypto.com Arena (20,000), next spring.

Joining 14 previously announced UK dates, the European leg will bring Minogue to 13 arenas — like Berlin’s Uber Arena (17,000), France’s Accor Arena (20,300), and The Netherlands’s Ziggo Dome (17,000) around Europe — in summer 2025. The star, repped by UTA in North America and CAA for the rest of the world, will also perform in Lithuania and Estonia on the Live Nation-promoted run.

Welsh rockers Stereophonics have announced its Stadium Anthems tour for next summer. The band will play across stadiums and fields, including Dublin’s St Anne’s Park (20,000), Glasgow’s Bellahouston Park for Summer Sessions, London’s Finsbury Park (45,000), and finishing at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium (74,500). Promoted by Live Nation, the X-ray Touring-represented group’s biggest-ever tour will also see them headline the Isle of Wight Festival next June.

American singer Tinashe has also expanded her Match My Freak world tour by adding dates in Europe, the UK, and Japan, joining previously announced NA dates. The Nasty singer will play theatres in Osaka and Tokyo before venturing to play theatres across Copenhagen, Paris, London, Dublin, and more next February.

Legendary rockstars Mötley Crüe will hit Las Vegas next year, for an 11-show residency at Dolby Live at Park MGM (6,400) next spring.

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