{"id":28281,"date":"2025-07-22T09:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T09:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/28281\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T09:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T09:17:08","slug":"ed-sheeran-announces-return-to-australia-following-record-breaking-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/28281\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran announces return to Australia following record-breaking tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Ed Sheeran will return to Australian shores in 2026 as part of his all-new Loop tour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The event has big boots to fill, after Sheeran broke the Australian record for attendance at a ticketed event twice in the same month during his last visit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">In March 2023, he performed to crowds of 110,000 and 108,000 over two nights at the Melbourne Cricket Ground for the Mathematics Tour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The Divide Tour in 2018 was also a record breaker, after he sold more than one million tickets across Australia and New Zealand.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">It earned him the title of most tickets sold for an Australian, New Zealand tour, beating the 1997 record held by Dire Straits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Sheeran was recently celebrated as a 12-time member of Spotify&#8217;s Billions Club, and his 2017 hit Shape of You was Apple&#8217;s most-streamed song for the past decade.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When is Sheeran appearing?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Friday, January\u00a016<br \/>GO Media Stadium | Auckland, NZ\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, January\u00a021<br \/>Sky Stadium | Wellington, NZ\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, January\u00a024<br \/>Apollo Projects Stadium | Christchurch, NZ\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, January\u00a031<br \/>Optus Stadium | Perth, WA\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Friday, February\u00a013<br \/>Accor Stadium | Sydney, NSW\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, February\u00a014<br \/>Accor Stadium | Sydney, NSW\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Friday, February\u00a020<br \/>Suncorp Stadium | Brisbane, QLD\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, February\u00a021<br \/>Suncorp Stadium | Brisbane, QLD\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, February\u00a026<br \/>Marvel Stadium | Melbourne, VIC\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Friday, February\u00a027<br \/>Marvel Stadium | Melbourne, VIC\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, March\u00a05<br \/>Adelaide Oval | Adelaide, SA\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran will return to Australian shores in 2026 as part of his all-new Loop tour.\u00a0 The event&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1246,4,450,24229,24231,24232,451,24230,3,452,453,12853],"class_list":["post-28281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-australia","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-ed-sheeran","tag-ed-sheeran-australia-tour","tag-ed-sheeran-loop-tour","tag-headlines","tag-loop","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28281","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=28281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}