Big Ticket Numbers For Tame Impala, Split Enz, RÜFÜS DU SOL & Joji

Tame Impala

Four acclaimed acts from Oceania are still pulling the crowds in, both in Australia and internationally.

Tame Impala

Last Friday (February 27), after Tame Impala’s Deadbeat dates for October went on sale, Frontier Touring, Chugg Entertainment, and Laneway Presents announced seven arenas sold out and three new (and final) shows added in three cities.

Specific ticket sales are not available from the promoters.

But we can surmise that if all the shows sell out and based on concert capacities at the venues, Kevin Parker and mates would be playing to 40,803 in Brisbane (at the Entertainment Centre), 60,000 in Melbourne (Rod Laver Arena), 63,000 in Sydney (Qudos Bank Arena), and 31,000 in Perth (RAC Arena).

In total, that would be 194,803 night trippers. We stress, these are just our estimates, and not official promoter data.

Split Enz

Last Friday, Split Enz played their first show in 18 years, headlining before 45,000 people at the Electric Avenue festival at Hagley Park in Christchurch.

200,000 people tried to get tickets to the festival. The 45,000 for each of the days (the second show was headed by Dom Dolla) were snapped up in 20 minutes.

Right after that show, the Enz announced two arena dates, in mid-May at TSB Arena in Wellington and Spark Arena in Auckland. 

If they sell out these dates, they’d be seeing red before a total of 18,000. If more shows are added remains to be seen: presale tickets go on sale from March 3 and on general release on March 5 at noon.

In Australia, their May shows through Live Nation, have sold out a first show at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena to the tune of 15,000 (with a second date there) and Sydney’s TikTok Entertainment Centre to 8,000 (with tickets on sale for another performance there).

They also cover Perth and Adelaide. Their first Australian set in 20 years is at Bluesfest Byron Bay, to an expected 25,000 to 30,000 on their day.

RÜFÜS DU SOL

“RÜFÜS DU SOL is one of the hottest tickets of the (North American) summer,” declared Pollstar magazine. 

That run, through Live Nation, began with 24 shows announced but added seven more dates within a week. They sold out 15 dates already.

These included four nights at the 20,000-seat Madison Square Gardens in New York City. A stint at the 17,500-seat Kia Forum in Inglewood, California was extended to five nights, two of which have already sold out.

Pollstar reported: “They’re the first electronic act to accomplish such milestones at the venues in a single tour, and they are also the first in the genre to headline (the 41,649 seat) Wrigley Field in Chicago.”

With 98 headline reports submitted to Pollstar’s Boxoffice, RÜFÜS DU SOL sold a total of 969,802 tickets, with a total gross of US$71.2 million. 

Billboard said that including festival spots, the trio played to some 1.5 million fans last year.

The band’s Australasian run last year shifted over 180,000 tickets in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Auckland, according to Untitled Group. 

They became the highest-selling Australian act ever at Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena, and set a new attendance record at Outer Fields at Auckland’s Western Springs with 25,000.

The Inhale/Exhale Word Tour continued in 2026 with their biggest headline tours in South America with seven shows (rounding off this week) before moving on to Europe for nine dates between April 22 and May 9. 

They visit Barcelona, Zürich, Berlin, Amsterdam and Paris among the cities.

This leg ends with them at London’s 20,000 capacity The O2 on May 13, and the 13,000 capacity 3Arena in Dublin two days later.

Joji

Japanese-Australian star Joji, who plays four dates in Australia and New Zealand in November, also has a full schedule before then.

Over June and July, he has 18 stops in North America, including Toronto, Montreal, New York, Orlando, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

He then goes across the Atlantic for 12 dates in the UK and Europe in August and September, staging in Dublin, London, Cologne, Copenhagen, Berlin, and Zurich, finishing off in Paris and Milan the first week of September.

After doing arenas in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland (November 11 to 19), he spends the rest of the month in Singapore, Bangkok, Hong Kong, and Kaohsiung.

With 48 headline reports submitted to Pollstar’s Boxoffice, Joji has sold a total of 361,511 tickets, with a total gross of US$29.6 million.

This piece of content has been assisted by the Australian Government through Music Australia and Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body