Yoasobi’s breakout hit began as somebody else’s short story. In March, the Japanese duo play their first Australian shows.
Composer Ayase and vocalist ikura, who make up Yoasobi, play Rod Laver Arena on 17 March, then head to Sydney’s Afterpay Arena, the venue formerly known as Qudos Bank Arena, on 19 March. Both shows belong to Super Planet, an 11-city Asia-Oceania tour that also stops at Hong Kong’s AsiaWorld-Arena for two nights in January. Much of the run is in domes and stadiums, including Singapore’s National Stadium on 20 February.
The pair formed in 2019 to turn other people’s writing into pop songs. Their debut, Into the Night (Yoru ni Kakeru), adapted a story by Mayo Hoshino and topped Billboard Japan’s year-end song and streaming charts for 2020. It has since passed 1.2 billion streams. A year later, Spotify ranked Yoasobi as the Japanese act most played by listeners overseas.
Yoasobi Super Planet Australian tour 2027
- 17 March, Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
- 19 March, Afterpay Arena, Sydney
Stay up to date with what’s happening in and around Melbourne here.
Idol’s 22 weeks at No 1
Idol, the 2023 opening theme for anime series Oshi no Ko, held the top spot on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 for 22 weeks running and finished the year as that chart’s biggest song. No single had reached 100 million streams on the chart faster. It also went to No 1 on Billboard’s Global Excl US chart, which tallies the world minus America. They’ve written for Pokémon as well: Biri-Biri marked a year of Scarlet and Violet, and the games handed out a Pawmot with Yoasobi listed as its original trainer. Non-Japanese speakers get a way in through the duo’s E-Side EPs, which carry English versions of the hits, and the fourth arrived in April.
Melbourne after Brooklyn and the Hollywood Bowl
Yoasobi’s North American tour in July and August drew more than 70,000 people across six shows. The duo became the first J-pop act to play Montreal’s Osheaga and the first to sell out Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. No J-pop act had played the Hollywood Bowl until they closed the run there. Two years earlier they’d done Coachella and New York’s Radio City Music Hall. In June 2025 they played two nights at London’s OVO Arena Wembley. Back home, a 2023 TikTok livestream had more than 120,000 people watching at once, the platform’s high-water mark for a Japanese act.
An artist presale runs from noon to 10pm local time on 12 November, ahead of general tickets at noon on 13 November. Melbourne’s show falls a year to the night after Babymetal played John Cain Arena, a short walk across Melbourne Park.
For more information, head here.
