Tomorrowland is making it’s Australia debut in 2026.
The iconic music festival, which is held annually in Belgium, is bringing its CORE stage to Melbourne in November next year, which will mark a first for the festival Down Under.
A TikTok was shared over the weekend by a Tomorrowland attendee featuring a world map poster at this year’s festival in Boom.
On the map, locations were circled to show where the CORE stage would be travelling to next year.
The list of cities included Medellin, Colombia in February 2026, Los Angeles, California in May 2026 and Melbourne, Australia in November 2026.
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Tomorrowland will be coming to Australia in 2026 (Pictured: Sao Paolo, Brazil 2024)
The iconic music festival, which is held annually in Belgium, is bringing its CORE stage to Melbourne in November 2026, which will mark a first for the festival Down Under (Pictured: Sao Paolo, Brazil 2024)
The CORE stage was first introduced by Tomorrowland in 2017 and aims to bring some of the biggest DJs of underground electronic music to places across the globe.
Some of the past locations the stage has popped up in include Brazil and Tulum, becoming renowned for its jungle-inspired design and unmatchable festival experience.
While Tomorrowland hasn’t directly confirmed it yet, the festival is expected to announce the Melbourne show either at the end of the year or the beginning of next year, with ticket, lineup and venue details sure to follow.
The exciting news comes as a welcome surprise in a time when the live music industry in Australia is facing significant challenges.
This year has seen a slew of major music festivals axed, including multi-city event Listen Out, R’n’B festival Souled Out and the ever-iconic Splendour in the Grass.
It was revealed in January that Splendour in the Grass would not be returning in 2025.
Organisers officially confirmed that the beloved Byron Bay music festival would not go ahead for a second year in a row via social media.
‘Hey gang, sorry it’s been so quiet, but we had a little holiday…finally,’ a statement published on the festival’s Instagram and Facebook channels read.
On the map, locations were circled to show where the CORE stage would be travelling to next year. Pictured: Festival-goers enjoy listening to Nervo performing at the Tomorrowland music festival in Belgium, 2025
‘The rest of the festival team have still been busy cooking up some awesome new things for music lovers in Australia, but Splendour needs a little more time to recharge and we won’t be back this year.’
The 2024 Splendour festival, which was set to feature the likes of Kylie Minogue, G Flip, Tash Sultana, and Fontaines D.C., was axed less than a week after tickets went on sale, with organisers citing ‘unexpected events’ as the reason behind the last-minute cancellation.
There is no guarantee that the festival is slated to return in 2026, however, organisers asked music fans to ‘think of it as a breather so we can come back even bigger and better when the time is right.’
The statement ended on a more hopeful note, with Splendour organisers saying there are ‘lots of other huge events on the horizon.’
‘So keep an ear to the ground in the coming months – we can’t wait to share what we’ve been working on!’ they added.
In a separate statement to Rolling Stone, ticketing and touring company Live Nation said the Splendour festivals team ‘has our full support to bring Splendour in the Grass back when they feel it’s right.’
