{"id":339895,"date":"2025-12-10T17:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/339895\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T17:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:53:12","slug":"australia-will-have-a-new-k-pop-festival-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/339895\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia Will Have a New K-Pop Festival In 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMELBOURNE \u2014 Australia\u2019s K-pop fans can let it all out next year at a dedicated day-long music festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe first edition of \uc548\ub155, MELBOURNE (\u201cHello Melbourne\u201d) will be presented March 14, 2026 at Melbourne\u2019s Flemington Racecourse, a new show that will sit alongside the market\u2019s rock, indie, dance, country and multi-genre events. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAnnounced Wednesday, Dec. 10, the new event is made possible by a partnership struck by APPLEWOOD, a leading live player in K-pop and Asian entertainment, and Australian independents concerts and festivals specialist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.untitledgroup.com.au\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Untitled Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRelated\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/business\/touring\/twice-tour-record-rise-kpop-australia-1236131055\/\" class=\"c-lazy-image__link lrv-a-unstyle-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/k-pop-feature-australia-ryan-song.jpg\" alt=\"TWICE perform in Melbourne\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDetails of the lineup will be announced this Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tEstablished in 2013, APPLEWOOD has produced major tours for the likes of SEVENTEEN, ENHYPEN, BAEKHYUN, LE SSERAFIM, GFRIEND and G-DRAGON, and orchestrated BLACKPINK\u2019s 2019 world tour, which smashed records with six sold-out arena shows in Bangkok, Thailand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn those years since launch, the business has produced more than 120 shows and attracting over 750,000 attendees across 20-plus cities in 18 markets, including Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines and, next year, Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMeanwhile, Untitled Group is celebrating its 10th anniversary, during which time the business has produced a slate of popular festivals, including Beyond The Valley and Wildlands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn 2024, Untitled Group shifted over 630,000 tickets across its events and tours, including Dom Dolla\u2019s Australian tour, which set a new record for a homegrown DJ with 170,000 tickets sold. Untitled\u2019s festivals portfolio includes Pitch Music &amp; Arts, Ability Fest, and the team produced the domestic leg of R\u00dcF\u00dcS DU SOL\u2019s recent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/awards\/rufus-du-sol-inhale-exhale-world-tour-global-record-1236127106\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">record-setting world tour.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAustralia has a deeper connection with some of the biggest names in K-pop, with the likes of Danielle and Hanni from NewJeans, Rose from BLACKPINK, and Stray Kids pair BangChan and Felix all boasting roots from these parts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tK-pop is a big, and growing business in these parts \u2014 both on the national charts and live stages. TWICE\u2019s recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/business\/touring\/twice-tour-record-rise-kpop-australia-1236131055\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This Is For<\/a> tour of Australia sold more than 50,000 tickets sold across Sydney and Melbourne, according to Live Nation, which produced those dates, while the K-Pop Demon Hunters soundtrack dominated both the ARIA Singles and Albums Charts at stages this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tData presented last year by Live Nation found that the genre is hot in Australasia, with a 600% increase in the number of Asia Pop live shows reported from 2015, and, at the same time, a 275% spike in the number of touring artists passing through.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe inaugural <a href=\"https:\/\/creative.gov.au\/research\/soundcheck-australian-music-festivals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Soundcheck<\/a> report, published last year by Creative Australia, found that Australia hosts more than 500 festivals. Electronic dance music was the boss, accounting for almost one in four music festivals in Australia (23% of festivals), ahead of rock (21%), country (19%) and indie (17%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MELBOURNE \u2014 Australia\u2019s K-pop fans can let it all out next year at a dedicated day-long music festival.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,71516,134,188881],"class_list":{"0":"post-339895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bbnews","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-genre-k-pop"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}