{"id":572886,"date":"2026-03-29T21:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T21:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/572886\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T21:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T21:47:09","slug":"kylie-minogue-to-perform-at-afl-grand-final-as-a-melburnian-im-so-excited-australia-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/572886\/","title":{"rendered":"Kylie Minogue to perform at AFL grand final: \u2018as a Melburnian, I\u2019m so excited\u2019 | Australia news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Calls for Australian musicians to perform at the AFL grand final have been answered with pop royalty Kylie Minogue named as this year\u2019s headline act.<\/p>\n

The Melbourne-born singer says she is excited to return home for the pre-game show at the MCG in September.<\/p>\n

Rumours had swirled that Minogue would perform at a twilight grand final but the AFL<\/a> has since confirmed the traditional 2.30pm timeslot will remain for the coming years.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a Melburnian, I\u2019m so excited to be coming home for the biggest day in the Aussie sporting calendar,\u201d Minogue said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll not only be performing but I\u2019ll be one of 100,000 fans at the \u2018G\u2019 watching the wonder that is footy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The league has long pursued the pop princess to headline its pre-game entertainment after previously securing international acts, such as Robbie Williams, Kiss, Katy Perry<\/a> and, most recently, Snoop Dogg.<\/p>\n

Not all acts have received positive reviews, including the infamous 2011 appearance by Meat Loaf<\/a>, which was widely panned as one of the worst grand final performances ever.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, the choice of American rapper Snoop Dogg for last year\u2019s pre-game entertainment drew criticism due to his misogynistic and homophobic lyrics.<\/p>\n

It sparked calls from the entertainment industry, along with former Richmond player Matthew Richardson, to back the Save Our Arts campaign, which pushed for Australian acts to headline grand final shows.<\/p>\n

\u201cKylie is one of the most successful Australian artists of all time,\u201d said Matt Gudinski, the chief executive of Mushroom Group, which represents Minogue.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s not just a global superstar, she\u2019s an icon and an obvious choice to headline the 2026 Telstra pre-game entertainment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Minogue, who began her music career in the late 1980s, has sold more than 80m records worldwide, had nine Australian No 1 albums and has won 18 Aria awards and two Grammys.<\/p>\n

The AFL CEO, Andrew Dillon, said: \u201cKylie has been on our wish list for a long time and there is no better artist for headline the performance prior to our biggest game of the season.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur AFL team recently joined Kylie at the MCG for the grand final content shoot and you could already feel the excitement for September building.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calls for Australian musicians to perform at the AFL grand final have been answered with pop royalty Kylie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-572886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572886","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=572886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}