AC/ DC extend Power Up tour with North and South America stadium run in 2026

AC/DC are keeping their Power Up era roaring into 2026. According to official tour announcements and major ticketing platforms, the Australian hard rock band have added a full South and North American stadium run under the banner of the Power Up Tour 2026.

Where AC/DC play in 2026

The newly extended schedule starts in South America, with AC/DC set to play Estádio do MorumBIS in São Paulo on February 24, 2026, followed by Santiago’s Parque Estadio Nacional on March 11 and Buenos Aires’ Estadio River Plate on March 23, as outlined in detailed tour reports from outlets like Loudwire and Ultimate Classic Rock.Loudwire 2026 tour dates overview

From April 7, 2026, the band move to Mexico City’s Estadio GNP Seguros before shifting focus to North America in July. The North American leg opens July 11, 2026, at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, continues through major college and NFL stadiums such as Ohio Stadium in Columbus on July 15 and Camp Randall Stadium in Madison on July 19, and runs all the way to Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia on September 29, 2026.Ultimate Classic Rock tour schedule

Numbers behind the Power Up tour

The 2026 leg adds 21 stadium dates across Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Mexico, the United States and Canada, a figure confirmed in AC/DC’s own tour news update and independent coverage from music and ticketing sites.AC/DC official tour continuation announcement Many of the venues on the North American leg have capacities between roughly 60,000 and 80,000 people, meaning that this extension alone can reach well over a million ticket-holding fans if shows sell close to capacity.

Compared with earlier phases of the Power Up tour in Europe and Australia, the 2026 run shifts the focus almost entirely to the Americas. While the 2025 European leg concentrated on cities like Munich, Vienna, Zurich and London, the 2026 dates lean heavily on large stadium markets such as Charlotte, Denver, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Edmonton, Vancouver, Atlanta, Houston, South Bend, St. Louis, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, East Rutherford and Philadelphia, underscoring how consistently AC/DC can still anchor top-tier venues on multiple continents.

The musical core of AC/DC today

AC/DC’s touring revolves around their seventeenth studio album Power Up, released in November 2020 on Columbia/Sony Music and produced by Brendan O’Brien, who also handled Black Ice and Rock or Bust. The record leans on the classic AC/DC formula: mid-tempo stomp, tightly structured riffs from Angus Young, Brian Johnson’s rasping high-register vocals and rhythm guitar from Stevie Young filling the space originally occupied by Malcolm Young.

The album was built from ideas and riffs that Angus developed from material left by Malcolm, turning them into complete songs that bridge the band’s legacy with their current incarnation. Tracks such as Shot in the Dark, Realize and Through the Mists of Time capture familiar AC/DC motifs—call-and-response choruses, blues-based soloing, and strict adherence to a straight-ahead rock groove—while production keeps the sound punchy enough to carry to the back rows of the stadiums they are now filling again.

Where AC/DC stand now

AC/DC’s next officially confirmed live date on the 2026 tour is August 27, 2026, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, followed by Houston’s NRG Stadium on August 31 and a string of further shows through September, ending at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia on September 29, 2026.

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