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Drake is officially touring Australia

• 06 Sep 2017

Australian Drake fans rejoice! The mega star is officially bringing his world tour down under. 

Frontier Touring announced the news on Tuesday September 6, dropping all his Australian The Boy Meets World tour dates. 

The 'Hotling Bling' singer will be performing in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne from November 7.

RELATED: Drake Makes Up with Nicki Minaj at Billboard Music Awards

Pre-sale tickets go on sale on Tuesday September 12, BUT you have to be a Frontier member and can only buy a maximum of four tickets.

All tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday September 15.

So if you want to be bust out your best Drake moves with the man himself, get prepared!

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Drake Announces Australia & NZ Tour Set For November

Following his hugely successful  Boy Meets World tour of Europe, Drake has finally quit honeydicking us by today announcing tour dates for his upcoming headline tour, set for November.

It’s been more than two years since Drizzy hit Australian shores back in early 2015, where he headlined the now-extinct Future Music Festival. Since then, the Canadian rapper has dropped two albums— Views  and  More Life  (which is really part album/part playlist according to the 6 God)—as well as  What A Time To Be Alive,  a collaborative mixtape with Future, meaning there’s no shortage of new music for the Toronto-native to hit us with. His upcoming headline tour, also under the Boy Meets World banner, is set to feature six all-ages shows; two each for Melbourne and Sydney, plus one each for Brisbane and Auckland.

Drake: Boy Meets World tour dates:

Auckland Friday November 3, Spark Arena Check local guides for ticket details

Brisbane Friday November 10, Entertainment Centre Tickets on sale Friday September 15: 4pm local time

Melbourne Saturday November 18, Rod Laver Arena Monday November 20, Rod Laver Arena Tickets on sale Friday September 15: 3pm local time

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👉 All initially announced Drake  shows are SOLD OUT! 👉 Tickets to the 2nd Auckland show are on sale now and selling fast 👉 3rd Sydney show on sale: Thu 21 Sep (3pm AEST) 👉 3rd Melbourne show on sale: Thu 21 Sep (3pm AEST)

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Following his phenomenally successful  Boy Meets World tour across Europe, Grammy-Award winning and platinum-selling recording artist Drake  today announced that he will be bringing the tour to Australia and New Zealand in November 2017. The tour commences on Friday 3 November at Spark Arena in Auckland. It will then move on to Australia for back-to-back shows at Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena, one night at Brisbane Entertainment Centre and two dates at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena. Tickets for the tour go on general sale on Friday 15 September.   Drake has asserted himself as a trailblazer across the creative world - holding the record for highest-grossing hip-hop tour, most streamed artist on Spotify and Apple Music, most streamed album debut (384.8 million, knocking off his own previous record), most streamed song on Spotify ( ‘One Dance’ ), most simultaneous songs in the Billboard Hot 100, most number one hits on Billboard’s R&B/Hip-Hop Chart, career high songs in the Billboard Hot 100 (157) and the list goes on. Since debuting in the Billboard Hot 100 on May 23, 2009, he has never not been in the Hot 100 chart. Drake commands massive influence in the hip-hop and contemporary music space as he continues to create and dominate on a worldwide scale.

DRAKE -  BOY MEETS WORLD  TOUR Presented by Frontier Touring & Illusive Presents in association with Live Nation Tue 7 Nov | Qudos Bank Arena Sydney, NSW (All Ages) - SOLD OUT   Wed 8 Nov  | Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney, NSW (All Ages) - SOLD OUT Fri 10 Nov  | Entertainment Centre, Brisbane, QLD (All Ages) - SOLD OUT Sat 18 Nov  | Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, VIC (All Ages) - SOLD OUT Mon 20 Nov  | Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, VIC (All Ages) - SOLD OUT

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Drake is Coming to Australia in November

The Canadian rapper Aubrey Graham (aka Drake) will bring his perfectly manicured facial hair to Australia for an all-ages national tour in November.

He’ll stop off as part of his Boy Meets World Tour. The show is famous for his back-up dancers – hundreds of hovering purple orbs that may in fact be aliens. Rumour has it they coalesce around his body to create his signature Moncler puffer jackets.

Drake has never left the Billboard Hot 100 since his debut in 2009, so expect more hits than just his songs with Rihanna.

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Drake: Boy Meets World tour dates:

Sydney Tue November 7, Qudos Bank Arena Wed November 8, Qudos Bank Arena On sale Fri September 15 at 1pm local time

Brisbane Fri November 10, Entertainment Centre On sale Fri September 15 at 4pm local time

Melbourne Sat November 18, Rod Laver Arena Mon November 20, Rod Laver Arena On sale: Fri September 15 at 3pm local time

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Drake announces ‘boy meets world’ australian tour.

It’s finally happening – Drake is coming.

Following his phenomenally successful Boy Meets World tour across Europe, Grammy-Award winning and platinum-selling recording artist ‘Drizzy’ is set to play some huge all-ages arena shows in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne this November.

The 30-year-old’s new trip down under became seemingly inevitable after his Aussie label Universal Music Australia posted a series of teasers on their socials last week, featuring the rapper atop various Australian landmarks.

Expect performances off the back of his 2016 album Views and his 2017 project More Life.

Tickets for the tour go on general sale on Friday, September 15.

Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne – November 18 & 20 (all ages)

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CHART topper Drake will tour Australia before the end of the year.

The Canadian singer and rapper has announced surprise dates in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne for November as part of his Boy Meets World tour.

Drake will play Qudos Bank Arena on November 7 and 8, Brisbane Entertainment Centre on November 10 and Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena on November 18 and 20.

Presales start September 12 with the general on sale taking place September 15.

Drake’s music has broken streaming records over the last three years with a string of hits including Hotline Bling, One Dance, Hold On We’re Going Home, Too Good, Fake Love and Passionfruit.

Last year’s album Views became his first Australian chart topper after No. 2 placings for If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late and Nothing Was the Same .

He last toured Australia in 2015 — the European leg of the Boy Meets World tour featured no less than 40 songs in the setlist.

Drake’s success in the US chart is remarkable — since May 2009 he has never not had a song in the Billboard Top 100 at any stage.

All Australian shows are all ages.

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Drake is touring Australia this November

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Ladies and gentleman, for the second time ever, Drake is touring Australia.

Two years on from his debut 2015 trip, playing shows around Future Music Festival (R.I.P.), Drizzy is returning to our shores this November for a massive run of headline shows along the East Coast.

Currently taking his ‘Boy Meets World’ tour across Europe, the platinum-selling hip hop titan will play in Auckland before hopping the pond for dual arena spectaculars in Sydney and Melbourne and a one-off in Brisbane. Tickets will go on sale from Friday 15 September but a pre-sale kicks off Tuesday (12 Sept). View the dates below and hit up Frontier Touring for further info

Drake 2017 Australian tour dates

Tuesday 7 November – Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney (all ages) Wednesday 8 November – Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney (all ages) Friday 10 November – Entertainment Centre, Brisbane (all ages) Saturday 18 November – Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne (all ages) Monday 20 November – Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne (all ages)

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The OVO lord has got plenty of new material to draw from for these shows. For his last visit, Drake was a few months off releasing his collaborative mixtape with Future, What A Time To Be Alive ; his 2016 blockbuster VIEWS was still just a teased promise, and his 2017 project More Life was but a twinkle in the Canadian rhymer’s eye. So, expect a hit-packed setlist. 

Easily one of the biggest and most influential artists in the game, Drake’s got a string of career achievements to his name: most streamed artist, most streamed Spotify song with ‘ One Dance ’, highest-grossing hip hop tour, and only he recently saw a nearly decade-long residency on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart come to an end. But hey, all good 'tings come to an end.

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Two years after his last appearances over here, the Canadian chart-topper has announced a sneaky run of  all-ages shows in Auckland, Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne to bolster 2017’s massive Boy Meets World run.

Expect to hear tunes from a little record called Views, and the lush More Life project. So, basically, this is your chance to experience the tunes which have absolutely dominated the past two years of your existence.

Tickets go on sale on Friday 15 September, but a spesh Frontier Touring member pre-sale is going down on Tuesday September 12. Peep the details HERE , and cop the dates below:

Friday 3 November Spark Arena, Auckland

Tuesday 7 November Qudos Arena, Sydney

Wednesday 8 November Qudos Arena, Sydney

Friday 10 November Entertainment Centre, Brisbane

Saturday 18 November  Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne

Monday 20 November Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne

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Drake Announces The Boy Meets World Australia & New Zealand Tour Dates

On Tuesday, (Sept. 5), Drake announced that he would venture to Australia and New Zealand for The Boy Meets World Tour.

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Despite promising to have a cushiony summer vacation after the release of  More Life , Drake has been on overload. With a summer that consisted of a slew of guest appearances and headlining his eighth annual OVO Fest, Drake is ready to venture out for another run on  The Boy Meets World Tour.

This November, OVO’s commander-in-chief will embark on a six-date tour in Australia and New Zealand. “Tickets On Sale Friday, September 15,” tweeted out the self-proclaimed 6 God on Twitter Tuesday afternoon (Sept. 5). For Drake, he’ll kick things off Nov. 3 in Auckland’s Spark Arena, while closing things out Nov. 20 in Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena. 

Earlier this year, Drake encountered early difficulties when trying to kick off The Boy Meets World Tour. After dealing with production issues and several setbacks, Drake axed his shows in Amsterdam last January. Despite the problems, Drake carried on and delivered an enchanting tour with appearances by Nicki Minaj , Travis Scott and Young Thug . 

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The Boy Meets World Tour  11/3 – Auckland @ Spark Arena 11/7 – Sydney @ Qudos Bank Arena 11/8 – Sydney @ Qudos Bank Arena 11/10 Brisbane @ Entertainment Centre 11/18 Melbourne @ Rod Laver Arena 11/20 Melbourne @ Rod Laver Arena

Tickets On Sale Friday, September 15. pic.twitter.com/NtDKjtQb0v — Drizzy (@Drake) September 5, 2017

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Drake Is Coming To Australia This Year For A Headline Tour

For the first time since his huge 2015 run,  Drake  has announced he will be heading back to Australia for a headline tour this year. 

The Canadian heavyweight will bring his  Boy Meets World  tour to the country in November, with shows confirmed for Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. 

The trip follows Drake's global chart-topping 2016-released LP,  Views , as well as his 2017 playlist,  More Life , which also peaked at #1 in Australia and around the world. 

General public tickets for the tour go on sale Friday, 15 September; for a look at all of the dates and venues, head over to theGuide or scroll down.

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SUPERSTAR rapper Drake’s Brisbane concert was full of so much praise for the River City he went over time and was still singing after the lights were switched off at 11pm.

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SUPERSTAR rapper Drake has declared Australia his “second home” as he vowed to spend the next four days in Brisbane and continue coming to the city “for the rest of my life”.

The Canadian rapper said he would remain in the city, “one of the most beautiful places in the world”, until travelling to Melbourne to conclude his Boy Meets World Tour down under next week.

Performing at a frenzied Brisbane Entertainment Centre on Friday night, Drake gushed about the city so much he went over time and was still singing after the lights were switched off at 11pm.

“I’ve had some of the best times in my life in Australia,” he said.

“I’m staying in Brisbane for the next four days because it’s one of my favourite places.

“Everyone (in Australia) is genuine, no ego. They look you in the eyes, they show you love.

“I’m thankful in my lifetime I was able to travel from my aunt’s basement where I used to write songs to Brisbane, Australia.

“At a time when everyone tells you the world is falling apart. Wherever I go I’ll let them know they’ve got it figured out in Brisbane.

“I’ll be coming back here for the rest of my life.”

Centring the stage in the middle of the room for his Boy Meets World Tour, Drake turned the capacity venue into an intimate and personal show.

It was made even more intimate when two bras – one with a phone number and an Instagram handle – were thrown on stage.

The 31-year-old rapper set the tone early, promising a Friday night party – and he quickly delivered.

He emerged in the centre of the stage through a smoke screen as he broke into Trophies, getting the young crowd jumping from the outset, before fireworks rained down from the ceiling.

Drake took an early victory lap, declaring; “They told me Brisbane was going to be the craziest f****** crowd and they did not tell me lies.”

“I’m from a place called Toronto, Canada,” he continued.

“I flew 13 hours to be in my second f****** home that is Australia.”

“I didn’t fly here to sell the tickets or to hear people sing my songs or some ego s***.”

“I flew here to give you the greatest f****** party on a Friday night you’ve ever had.”

He had the crowd in the palm of his hand as the second act kicked into gear with an impressive light show turning the room into a rave.

Hundreds of balls of light floated from the ceiling in varying formations and colours as he pulled out a string of hits including Hotline Bling , Hold On , We’re Going Home and Passionfruit .

He then took 15 minutes to individually point out members of the crowd, singing happy birthday to one fan and congratulating a couple on their engagement.

“I could see that ring all the way from the Gold Coast,” he said.

He later challenged his two back up dancers to a dance off which had the crowd at fever pitch as he launched into hit, One Dance .

Drake continued his love for Brisbane after a performance of Enemies

“I could do a thousand shows in a year; it doesn’t matter,” he said.

“What I really look forward to is a night just like tonight. In a room with 15,000 people who are all showing me real love.”

It’s unlikely anyone in the crowd came needing converting but if they did, Drake’s sincere attention to his Brisbane fans would have achieved it.

He will conclude his Australian tour with two shows in Melbourne next week.

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Is it Australia's turn for a Drake tour? Rumours say yes

When that hotline bling, that can only mean one thing – Drake may be coming to Australia?

We’ve got good and bad news for you. The good news? It might just be God’s plan for Drake to play in Australia this year. The bad news? Well, aside from the fact that your wallet might be about to cop a beating from buying  the Weeknd tickets , Drake hasn’t quite confirmed his journey Down Under just yet. Here’s what we do know... 

At the moment, Drake is on his ‘It’s All a Blur’ tour with 21 Savage. The official stops on the four-month-long tour only include American cities, and a few shows in the Certified Lover Boy's homeland, Canada. European and British fans are impatiently waiting for an international tour, but nothing has been announced yet.

In terms of Aussie news, rumours are swirling that Drake will be visiting us in November this year... Why? Concert events website All Events recently posted a listing for a Drake concert in Perth on November 28, and another one in Auckland on November 14. X (formerly Twitter) account @6LivesMusic thinks this points to the venues being booked. 

🇦🇺🇳🇿 Rumours that Drake will be touring Australia in November/December (same time as Weeknd) with one show reportedly booked in Perth already: — 6LivesMusic (@6livesmusic_) August 29, 2023

The lowdown on All Events is that anyone can register to be an ‘event host’ and post upcoming concerts. Concerts Nation Australia were the ones who posted the Drake events, but the question is: are they legit? They have a few other concerts listed that are actually running later this year, so here's hoping that they’re on to something with Drake. 

If Drake truly is embarking on a global tour, it would be the first one since Assassination Vacation in 2017, and the first visit to Australia since 2017 when he played the Boy Meets World show. 

Ticketek has made up a Drake waitlist page – hop on it and cross your fingers for updates.

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Drake Kicks Off Australian Tour

Grammy-Award winning and platinum-selling recording artist  Drake, landed in Sydney yesterday ahead of his show last night.  

Come see about me...🦉🌍🇦🇺🤩 Shot by @mushroomcreative A post shared by champagnepapi (@champagnepapi) on Nov 6, 2017 at 12:55am PST

His first Sydney show is set to be followed by back-to-back shows across the country in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne.

Landed in Sydney 🇦🇺🦉 A post shared by champagnepapi (@champagnepapi) on Nov 5, 2017 at 4:55am PST

  Drake  has asserted himself as a trailblazer across the creative world - holding the record for highest-grossing hip-hop tour, most streamed artist on Spotify and Apple Music, most streamed album debut, most streamed song on Spotify , most simultaneous songs in the Billboard Hot 100, most number one hits on Billboard’s R&B/Hip-Hop Chart, career high songs in the Billboard Hot 100 and the list goes on.

Since debuting in the Billboard Hot 100 on 23 May, 2009, he has never not been in the Hot 100 chart.  Drake  commands massive influence in the hip-hop and contemporary music space as he continues to create and dominate on a worldwide scale.

Keen to perform tmrw 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 A post shared by champagnepapi (@champagnepapi) on Nov 6, 2017 at 2:36am PST

Keep an eye out for Drake while he's in the country and get your concert outfit sorted by checking out our new arrivals online or heading in store .

TOUR DATES 7 Nov - Qudos Bank Arena (Sydney) - Sold Out 8 Nov - Qudos Bank Arena (Sydney) - Sold Out 10 Nov - Entertainment Centre (Brisbane) 15 Nov - Qudos Bank Arena (Sydney) 18 Nov - Rod Laver Arena (Melbourne) -  Sold Out 19 Nov - Rod Laver Arena (Melbourne) 20 Nov - Rod Laver Arena (Melbourne) - Sold Out

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