Rolling Loud Australia Returns in 2026
US rapper and singer Gunna has been announced the festival’s headliner.
After a six year absence, the travelling hip hop festival Rolling Loud returns to Australia in 2026.
A celebration of hip hop culture, the festival will take over Sydney’s Centennial Park on Friday 7 March and Melbourne’s Flemington Racecourse on Saturday 8 March.
With the lineup set to drop at any moment, organisers have revealed rapper and singer Gunna will headline both dates of the festival.
Rolling Loud’s inaugural Australia festival took place in 2019 with a stacked lineup featuring heavyhitters including Future, Lil Uzi Vert, Playboi Carti, Tyga and Smokepurpp alongside Sydney’s Manu Crook$
Tickets go on sale at 8am AEST on Thursday 23 October via ticketmelon.com.
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Since its inception in 2015, Rolling Loud has become the largest travelling hip hop festival on the planet.
First held in Miami with a lineup headlined by ScHoolBoy Q, Juicy J and A$AP Ferg, the festival extended to California in 2017, New York in 2019 and Toronto in 2020.
The first Rolling Loud held outside of North America and Canada was Australia in 2019, and was quickly followed by events in Portugal, Germany, Thailand, Austria, India and Rotterdam.
Rolling Loud Australia takes place in Melbourne and Sydney in March 2026. For full ticketing info, visit ticketmelon.com.
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