2025 stadium tours mount: Coldplay, Olivia Rodrigo, MCR

Coldplay, Olivia Rodrigo and My Chemical Romance are among the latest acts to announce stadium tours for 2025.

Coldplay have announced their biggest-ever show in the Indian city of Ahmedabad next year as part of their blockbuster Music Of The Spheres World Tour.

The band will perform at the 100,000-capacity Narendra Modi Stadium, the largest stadium in the world, on 25 January.

The Ahmedabad show, promoted by Live Nation and Book My Show, is one of several Asia shows Coldplay will be playing next year on the biggest rock tour of all time, having previously announced gigs in Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong, Seoul and Mumbai.

It will mark Coldplay’s first full-length headline touring performance in India after their 2016 appearance at Global Citizen Festival. The new dates will also see the band return to Hong Kong for the first time since 2009, Abu Dhabi for the first since 2016, and Seoul since 2017.

Later in 2025, Coldplay will head over to North America for 10 new gigs between May and July before returning to the UK for the next leg of the tour in August and September.

Coldplay have announced their biggest-ever show in the Indian city of Ahmedabad next year

“The only way to better serve the record-breaking demand for Coldplay’s Music Of The Spheres World Tour in India has been to secure the country’s largest venue,” says Anil Makhija, COO, live entertainment and venues, BookMyShow.

“We’re thrilled to bring Coldplay’s monumental show to Ahmedabad’s Narendra Modi Stadium as we raise the bar for live events and put India on the global entertainment map.”

Jared Braverman, SVP of Global Touring, Live Nation Entertainment, adds: “Over 20 years into their touring career, Coldplay continues to push boundaries in both scale and reach.”

Meanwhile, three-time Grammy Award-winning artist Olivia Rodrigo has announced her first-ever headline stadium shows in Brazil and Mexico.

Produced by Live Nation, the additional headline dates expand her 2024 GUTS world tour, which included 95 sold-out shows in over 60 cities across more than 20 countries, attracting over 1.4 million fans and grossing over $184.6 million, making it the highest-grossing tour by an artist born this century.

Olivia Rodrigo has announced her first-ever headline stadium shows in Brazil and Mexico

The 2025 GUTS world tour: spilled will feature major headline stadium shows at Estadio Couto Pereira in Curitiba (Brazil) on 26 March, and at Estadio GNP Seguros in Mexico City on 2 April. St. Vincent will open the show in both cities.

The added dates surround Rodrigo’s recently announced 2025 festival performances across Latin America at Lollapalooza Chile, Lollapalooza Argentina, Festival Estereo Picnic, Lollapalooza Brasil, and Tecate Pa’l Norte next year.

The news comes days after Rodrigo was announced for the 2025 editions of London’s BST Hyde Park, Belgium’s Rock Werchter, Portugal’s NOS Alive and Italy’s I-Days.

Elsewhere, My Chemical Romance has unveiled a North American stadium tour for next summer, in celebration of their seminal album The Black Parade.

The band will perform the full album in only 10 cities across North America, with each Live Nation-produced show featuring a different hand-selected artist as the opening act.

Between 11 July and 13 September, the outing will visit Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Arlington, East Rutherford, Philadelphia, Toronto, Chicago, Boston and Tampa.

Violent Femmes, 100 Gecs, Wallows, Garbage, Death Cab for Cutie and Thursday, Alice Cooper, Pixies, Devo, IDLES and Evanescence are slated to support the US emo band.

Other acts that have previously announced 2025 stadium tours include Ed Sheeran, Dua Lipa, Imagine Dragons, Bruce Springsteen, Robbie Williams and Oasis.

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