The US-singer was spotted with a large dance crew along New Cathedral Street in the city centre grooving to his new single ‘Sexy for Me’ surrounded by a large audience. The flash mob was filmed and shared across social media.<\/p>\n
It came as the hitmaker arrived in Manchester for his The Last Dance 2026 tour, which came to the Co-op Live arena on Saturday night (February 7). But before the show, it appeared he headed out into the city centre for the shock flash mob.<\/p>\n
Try MEN Premium NOW for just \u00a31<\/a><\/p>\n Surrounded by videographers and photographers, the Riding Solo hitmaker stepped out with an army of backing dancers, all dressed in black, to perform the high-energy hit as the rain poured down in Manchester.<\/p>\n The Riding Solo hitmaker took to the streets of Manchester during his tour\u00a0(Image: Martin Rogers)<\/p>\n Derulo first rose to fame back in late 2009 after the release of his debut hit Watcha Say, before going on to create a number of iconic noughties songs including Riding Solo, In My Head and It Girl.<\/p>\n Fans were sent into a frenzy after footage was shared online. User @martinrogers92 shared a video from the crowd of onlookers, captioned: Jason Derulo flash mob in Manchester\u2026!”<\/p>\n READ: ‘Something surprised me about Jason Derulo’s Co-op Live gig – and it wasn\u2019t his voice’<\/a><\/p>\n One person wrote: “Omg how did I miss this!” as another commented: “Things I didn’t expect to see on a Sunday.”<\/p>\n “We saw you yesterday, complete surprise and you were all amazing. It made my day” responded another on Instagram.<\/p>\n The clip was filmed just hours before Derulo stepped out on stage for the two-hour performance at Co-op Live. The one-night gig brought a high-energy production, dramatic set designs and powerhouse vocals, the M.E.N reviewed.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Riding Solo hitmaker took to the streets of Manchester during his tourJason Derulo dancing in flash mob…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,2951,2461,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-415200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-manchester-city-centre","tag-manchester-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1_JH_MEN_080226_JASONDERULO1JPG.jpg\")
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