Will Rolling Loud Festival Return To Australia In 2026?

Is Rolling Loud Festival preparing for its return to Australia? It sure seems so, with festival organisers dropping the hint that the event will be back “sooner than you think.”

The renowned hip-hop festival made its Australian debut in January 2019 with a line-up featuring Future, Lil Uzi Vert, Playboi Carti, Tyga, Smokepurpp, and local favourite Manu Crook$.

The long-awaited follow-up was scheduled to take place in 2024 and expand from Sydney, with a second event planned in Melbourne. However, the second edition of the festival didn’t end up happening and was indefinitely postponed.

Rolling Loud’s 2024 indefinite postponement arrived after a delayed line-up drop. Before that, changes to the line-up and ticket release were announced.

Festival organisers announced the postponement on Instagram, writing to fans that, due to circumstances outside their control, hosting a Rolling Loud-standard festival was impossible, so the event would be rescheduled for a later date.

Rolling Loud promised to host “a variety of smaller arena shows in early 2024.”

On Friday (29 August), festival organisers shared a major teaser about Rolling Loud’s return to Australia. After sharing that the Rolling Loud India line-up would be announced soon, a user on X (formerly known as Twitter) said that Australia has been “forgotten about” for seven years.

The Rolling Loud team answered, “Working on it fam. Be back sooner than you think.”

Working on it fam

Be back sooner than you think

— Rolling Loud (@RollingLoud) August 29, 2025

Local concert tracker app and music and culture resource Whatslively believes the festival will touch down in Australia in March 2026.

“We have it on good authority that Rolling Loud will be in fact returning to Australia,” a notice from the Whatslively team reads. “The festival will take place in early March 2026, with an official announcement very soon.”

So far, Whatslively doesn’t have the specific details, but the team has been told that Rolling Loud will return.

“We've only been told it's coming back, but the specifics on cities and dates will come soon,” they added.

Upon announcing the event’s return to Australia for 2024, festival Co-Founders Matt Zingler and Tariq Cherif said, “The Sydney fans were so passionate in 2019, so we are eager to return Down Under and bring Rolling Loud to more cities this time. The Aussie shows will be a unique Rolling Loud experience, and we’re excited for everyone to see what’s in store.”