INDIAN RAPPER BADSHAH TO HEADLINE THE O2 IN MARCH 2026

By Rishma • On Events

Sunday 22nd March 2025 

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The multi-plat­in­um rap­per, sing­er-song­writer and pro­du­cer Bad­shah has offi­cially announced he will head­line The O2, Lon­don on Sunday 22nd March.

Bad­shah is one of India’s most pro­lif­ic, bound­ary-push­ing music power­houses, with 18+ chart-top­ping hits each with 300million+ You­Tube plays across an enorm­ous cata­logue of 5 bil­lion+ streams. He has a massive glob­al fan­base and has col­lab­or­ated with super­stars from Shah Rukh Khan and Arijit Singh to Sean Paul, Dip­lo, J Balv­in, Dav­ido and Tiësto. In Decem­ber 2023, he became the first Indi­an rap­per to sell out the OVO Arena Wemb­ley, as part of his multi-city UK tour, while also deliv­er­ing the largest-ever sold-out Indi­an hip hop tour in North America.

The head­line O2 show in front of 15,000 devoted fans will be a pre­lude to his highly anti­cip­ated world tour, mak­ing Bad­shah the first ever Indi­an rap­per to head­line at the icon­ic ven­ue. The show fol­lows his sur­prise appear­ance at The O2 dur­ing Diljit Dosanjh’s Dil-Luminati Tour and per­formed ‘Naina’.  That night, before tens of thou­sands of fans, Bad­shah shared his dream of return­ing to head­line The O2 — a dream that will now be real­ised next March. It will be a land­mark moment for Indi­an hip hop on the glob­al stage, sig­nalling the genre’s fast-grow­ing inter­na­tion­al foot­print and com­mand of the world’s biggest stages.

Fans can expect a land­mark live spec­tacle as Bad­shah com­mands the arena with an expans­ive three-hour per­form­ance, fea­tur­ing his chart-top­ping hits, cult favour­ites and recent anthems from across his dec­ade-long cata­logue. The show will be amp­li­fied by state-of-the-art sta­ging, immers­ive visu­als — a world-class inter­na­tion­al pro­duc­tion that is set to become a sig­ni­fic­ant cul­tur­al mile­stone for Indi­an hip hop next year.

Bad­shah states, “Head­lining The O2 is more than a mile­stone — it’s a dream I’ve car­ried for years. Desi hip hop belongs on the glob­al stage, and this show is our declar­a­tion. Lon­don, we’re about to make his­tory togeth­er — louder, prouder and big­ger than ever. 22nd March 2026 will be a night we remem­ber forever.”

Bad­shah is one of South Asia’s most influ­en­tial con­tem­por­ary artists — a rap­per, sing­er-song­writer, pro­du­cer and entre­pren­eur who has reshaped Indi­an pop cul­ture, music, cinema, tv and enter­tain­ment for over two dec­ades. Recog­nised by GQ and For­bes as a defin­ing voice of 21st-cen­tury Indi­an music, he was ranked the world’s No. 1 song­writer on You­Tube and became the first Indi­an artist to sign glob­ally with Uni­ver­sal Music.

Known for record-break­ing anthems such as “DJ Waley Babu,” “Genda Phool,” “Jugnu,” “Paani Paani,” “Kala Chashma,” “Kar Gayi Chull,” “Abhi Toh Party Shuru Hui Hai,” and “Mercy,” Bad­shah has delivered 18 chart-top­ping hits, each sur­pass­ing 300 mil­lion You­Tube views, and is the first Indi­an rap­per to cross 1 bil­lion views on a single track. His cata­logue of 200+ songs has earned over 5 bil­lion Spo­ti­fy streams and a digit­al fol­low­ing of more than 50 mil­lion, pla­cing him among the top 10 most-fol­lowed hip-hop artists globally.

A cul­tur­al taste­m­aker and ment­or, Bad­shah has judged major Indi­an TV shows includ­ing MTV Hustle, Indi­an Idol and India’s Got Tal­ent. Bey­ond music, he is an innov­at­ive entre­pren­eur across hos­pit­al­ity, fash­ion, enter­tain­ment and auto­mot­ive, and has become a fash­ion trail­blazer — the first Indi­an rap­per invited to Par­is Men’s Fash­ion Week and New York Fash­ion Week, and the most recent announce­ment that he will be the cre­at­ive force behind a cap­sule col­lec­tion with lux­ury brand MAYBACH.

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Rishma

Edit­or / PR Con­sult­ant at No Bounds
Rishma Dhali­w­al has extens­ive exper­i­ence study­ing and work­ing in the music and media industry. Hav­ing writ­ten a thes­is on how Hip Hop acts as a social move­ment, she has spent years research­ing and con­nect­ing with artists who use the art form as a tool for bring­ing a voice to the voiceless.

About Rishma

Rishma Dhaliwal has extensive experience studying and working in the music and media industry. Having written a thesis on how Hip Hop acts as a social movement, she has spent years researching and connecting with artists who use the art form as a tool for bringing a voice to the voiceless.