{"id":134194,"date":"2025-09-05T07:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/134194\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T07:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:19:08","slug":"tones-and-i-will-perform-at-2025-nba-series-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/134194\/","title":{"rendered":"Tones And I Will Perform At 2025 NBA Series In Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/tones-and-i\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tones And I<\/a> will get the place bouncing when she performs next month for an historic series of pre-season <a href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-news\/nba-games-are-coming-to-australia-73729\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBA games<\/a> in Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAssociation franchise New Orleans Pelicans will make the long haul to Melbourne, where they\u2019ll tackle NBL finalists Melbourne United on Friday, Oct. 3, and semi-finalists South East Melbourne Phoenix, Oct. 5th, 2025, both at Rod Laver Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tConfirmed today, Sept. 5, the \u201cDance Monkey\u201d star is the halftime entertainment for the Friday spectacle, and she\u2019ll headline a \u201cFan Night\u201d the following evening.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tExplore\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/tones-and-i\" 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=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/tonesandi-e1q-180x180.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/tonesandi-e1q-180x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-tagline  a-font-secondary-fancy-xxxs@desktop-xl a-font-secondary-fancy-s@desktop-xl-max lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-color-black u-padding-t-13 lrv-u-padding-b-2 lrv-u-margin-tb-00 lrv-u-text-align-center lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-border-color-black lrv-u-width-100p\">See latest videos, charts and news<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tTones (real name Toni Wilson) is a regular courtside guest for Melbourne United\u00a0home games, and is a passionate fan of the sport. She\u2019s the \u201cNumber 1\u201d ticket holder for the franchise, effectively an ambassador for the team, and she performed at a half-time show and a Fan Night in October 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWith 2019\u2019s \u201cDance Monkey,\u201d Tones crushed chart records and landed one of the most-streamed songs in history. The track led Australia\u2019s ARIA Chart for a record 24 weeks; held top spot on the Official UK Chart for 11 weeks, a record for a solo female artist; and went top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. All told, the song hit the top spot on sales charts in more than 30 territories, and has danced past 3.3 billion streams on Spotify.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tTones has two ARIA No. 1 albums to her name, a slew of ARIA Awards, and she\u2019s said play the point guard position like a pro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe NBAxNBL games will be the first played by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/nba\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nba\" data-tag=\"nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA<\/a> squads in Australia, one of the Association\u2019s most fanatical international markets. Australia is said to be the No. 2 territories outside of the United States for subscriptions to the NBA\u2019s League Pass app.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe NBA\u2019s long-overdue crossing to Australia follows the announcement by the NFL this year of a multi-year arrangement to play regular season games at the Melbourne Cricket Ground from next year, featuring the Los Angeles Rams.\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tones And I will get the place bouncing when she performs next month for an historic series of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[74839,355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-134194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-bbnews","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}