Zara Larsson was scheduled to make her debut Down Under early next year, but will no longer be joining OneRepublic on their upcoming ‘The Sweet Escape’ tour.
The pop-rock favourites are returning to Australia and New Zealand in February 2026, with shows in Auckland, Sydney, Gold Coast, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth. Larsson was due as their special guest across the entire tour, marking her first Australian tour ever.
Larsson confirmed the cancellation in a TikTok video, replying to a comment from a fan that said “The Aussies are pissed Zara”.
“I’m so sorry I had to cancel opening for OneRepublic Down Under, don’t be pissed at me,” she said in the video, before singing Delta Goodrem’s “Born to Try” as an apology.
“I’ll make it up to you, I’ll come back and do my own show,” she said.
@zaralarsson Replying to @Mazey ♬ original sound – Zara Larsson
The Swedish dance-pop star enjoyed a now multi-platinum hit in both Australia and New Zealand in 2015 with her trop-house banger “Lush Life” and touched down for the first of several promo junkets, performing only on the Sunrise breakfast show.
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In a recent interview with Rolling Stone AU/NZ, she said she was unsure why it took her so long to do a tour.
“…when I first started travelling around making music, Australia was one of the first places that really welcomed me with my music. So I’ve always thought, ‘I’ll be back very soon…’ And now it’s really about time,” she said.
She is currently on a North American arena tour with Tate McRae, and has European headline dates coming up on her schedule.
Larsson has just released her fifth album, Midnight Sun. She deemed it her most autobiographical album, with a theme of growth, rather than reinvention. “I wrote the whole thing for the first time – I didn’t do that with my other projects,” she told Rolling Stone AU/NZ.
