In the last two months of the year, competition in the concert market for top singers is extremely fierce. Jay Chou returned to Guangzhou Tianhe after ten years, Andy Lau played 20 New Year’s Eve concerts at the Coliseum, and Nicholas Tse opened the stage of “evolution” to many stadiums. Jimmy Lam traveled to 28 cities, Stephen Chow turned the stadium into a gathering of old friends with “Friends” and “Sword Like a Dream”; Alan Tam brought the golden age of Cantonese songs in the 1980s back to the venue as it was, renewing his contract with old fans.
The scenes of these singers are the most precious place for feelings. It is not just memories, but intergenerational resonance is still taking place.
The latest data from the China Performance Industry Association shows that in the first half of 2026, the box office of large-scale commercial performances with more than 5,000 people reached 17.111 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 17.7%, and the audience size exceeded 23 million. When “going to a city for a performance” changes from occasional consumption to a steady decision, concerts are no longer an isolated entertainment product, but an incremental map of city consumption.
Top-tier showdown: City selection logic of top artists
Jay Chou “Carnival 2026·Time Machine / Sunshine”
【Guangzhou】Guangzhou Tianhe Sports Center Stadium 2026.12.04-12.06
【Sanya】Sanya Sports Center Bailu Stadium 2026.12.18-12.20
This round of “Carnival” series continues the “one city, one person” customization logic. Guangzhou’s “Time Machine” returns to the Tianhe Sports Center after ten years. This venue has hosted the first Jaylen live show in generations that was “unparalleled”, “super-era” and “the strongest on the surface”.
Sanya’s “Sunshine” is the finale of this round. It combines the island image of “Sunshine Otaku” with the coconut wind, sunset, and Bailu Stadium. The sense of relaxation that inland stadiums cannot provide is unique to this stop. Guangzhou is “singing youth back” and Sanya is “putting youth on the beach to bask in the sun”.
Stefanie Sun “Just After Sunset”
【Longsha】Longsha Heli Stadium 2026.11.06/08
【Gangzhou】Guangdong Olympic Sports Center Stadium 2026.11.27/29, 12.04/06
The name originates from the Latin word “AUT NIHILO” written by Stefanie Sun, “or nothing”, pointing to her state of “grasping all the past and moving forward” in her bumpy life. In 2025, I will first run through 8 cities and 18 sunsets, from the first golden orange light in Singapore to the last red glow at night in Nanjing. 2026 continues writing the sunset and plays the overture again from the night.
The whole performance is divided into five chapters: “Beauty, Unknown, Dreams, Life, and Characters”. The song list covers works spanning more than 20 years, such as “Meet”, “Happy Everyday”, “What I Miss” and “The First Day”. The unpopular songs were picked, and the fans’ interactive confessions were “full of tricks”. She relied on the full open mic, sunset light and shadow, and the sincerity of “I am also finding myself” to turn the stadium into a collective healing.
Andy Lau “About Life”
[Hong Kong, China] Hong Kong Coliseum (Coliseum), Hung Hom, 2026.12.18-12.21, 12.23-12.26, 12.28-12.31; 2027.01.02-01.05, 01.07-01.10 (20 games in total)
The theme is directly “About Life”, and the first stop is at the Hong Kong Coliseum, spanning Christmas, New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, with four days of performances and one day off. There is a paper airplane on the poster, and the words are spelled out with old clothes, old socks, and scarves that Andy has worn for many years. He said that life contains movies, music, life, family, “and you”, and the fans were put into the theme by him. The regular show starts at 20:15, and the New Year’s Eve show is specially moved to 21:30, allowing the whole audience to count down to the New Year together.
The Coliseum has about 12,500 seats and is surrounded by pillars. He could go to a bigger venue, but he wanted to return to this box that contained memories of the HK Phil’s golden era. The playlist is expected to be based on “The Days We Walked Together”, “Forgetting Water”, “Ice Rain”, “Love You Ten Thousand Years” and “Stupid Child”, as well as a few unpopular songs that have not been sung live for many years. Andy Lau didn’t need to use tours to prove the market. He chose to make the New Year’s Eve a long-term contract.
Mid-stage: The value of a “mature field” after running through 10 cities
Nicholas Tse “Evolution Nic Live”
【Wenzhou】Wenzhou Olympic Sports Center Main Stadium 2026.10.31-11.01
【Hangzhou】Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center Stadium (Big Lotus) 2026.11.14-11.15
【Fuzhou】Fuzhou Strait Olympic Sports Center Stadium 2026.11.28
【Gangzhou】Guangdong Olympic Sports Center Stadium 2026.12.19-12.20
【Nanning】Guangxi Sports Center Main Stadium 2027.01.16
Having been on stage for more than 20 years, Nicholas Tse summed up this tour with just one word – evolution. Starting from the main venue of Kai Tak Sports Park in Hong Kong in 2025, it was the first time that a Chinese singer put a solo into this venue. The stage is the strongest foundation for this round. It does not have a static background board, but a moving system. The 14-meter-high suspended sphere, gantry track, sliding machine extension platform, and more than 2,000 lights transport the singers from the main stage to the edge of the stands, and almost every corner of the audience is taken care of.
The details are also extremely attentive. The flowers and plants on both sides slowly grow with the performance. The large screen displays early MVs and film and television clips. The young man on the screen is singing duet with the 46-year-old middle-aged man on the stage. The microphone stand in my hand was customized by artist Ren Zhe, inspired by the “Great Wall”. The word “spine” is pressed into the metal structure. “Live VIVA”, “Not Theorem”, “Jade Butterfly”, “Thank you for your love 1999”, “Love because of love” and “Yellow Race” were sung by thousands of people as soon as they came out. Audiences at the Guangzhou Station are already making wishes to “go back to their Cantonese hometown and have a full Cantonese song list.” Many people come here to repay their youth debt when they were twenty years old, but Nicholas Tse does not intend to just consume feelings. He turns nostalgia into a rock self-certification that is still evolving.
Jackson Wang “MAGICMAN 2”
【Nanjing】Dream Blue Olympic Sports Park Gymnasium 2026.11.07-11.08
【Hangzhou】Hangzhou Olympic Sports AT Center Gymnasium 2026.11.14-11.15
[Chongqing] Bloomage Biotech·Runbaiyan ECM Center 2026.11.28-11.29
【Ningbo】Ningbo Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium 2026.12.05-12.06
【Chengdu】Wuliangye Culture and Sports Center Comprehensive Gymnasium 2026.12.11-12.12
The core of Jackson Wang’s second solo world tour is not another round of singing and dancing, but splitting the album “MAGICMAN 2” from the recording studio into a live performance. The album itself is composed of four chapters that connect states and introspections at different stages. It debuted at No. 13 on the Billboard 200 in the first week of its release, which was the highest weekly record for a Chinese artist on the chart. In 2025, it traveled to 5 regions in Asia and ten cities in North America and Latin America. The Barclays Center in New York was sold out twice. The tour takes these emotions one step further and uses performance, visuals and stage structure to tell the story of “how an undefined person deals with rifts.”
Zhang Jie “1982 Heading to the Future·LIVE”
【Nanjing】Nanjing Olympic Sports Center Stadium 2026.11.13-11.15
【Wuhan】Wuhan Sports Center Main Stadium 2026.11.27-11.29
[Hong Kong, China] Kai Tak Main Stadium, Kai Tak Sports Park, Hong Kong 2026.12.20
This round continues the concept of “train”, putting the past into a “suitcase”, carrying Zhang Jie, who was born in 1982, turning around and heading towards a future that has not yet happened. For the first time, Zhang Jie formed the “Planetary Director Team” as the chief director. He watched the entire process from the song list structure, visuals, sound to on-site interaction: the 100-meter-level mechanical train drove into the infield, the giant suitcase device poured down the water curtain, and the extension table penetrated into the stands. “The World”, “Reverse War”, “This Is Love”, “Young China” and other songs have been played in the stadium. Now Zhang Jie’s performance is no longer about surprise, but about the completion of industrialization.
Vocal Barrier: Hard-core players who don’t work hard at production but work hard at the scene
Zhou Shen “deeply”
【Changzhou】Changzhou Olympic Sports Center Stadium 2026.11.07-11.08
【Xiamen】Xiamen Olympic Sports Center-Bailu Stadium 2026.11.21-11.22
【Foshan】Foshan Century Lotus Sports Center Stadium 2026.12.05-12.06
【Nanning】Guangxi Sports Center Main Stadium 2026.12.31-2027.01.01
A new themed tour following the “9.29Hz” world tour, “Deep” is designed to be a life diary that is still being written. Each page is a song, and each song is a page of emotions and memories. Watch the lights in Changzhou, enjoy the sea breeze in Xiamen, listen to the lion dance in Foshan, and enjoy the evergreen green mountains in Nanning. The final four cities continue the setting of “each song has its own independent stage design”. The “Police Star” on the center console and infield and the elevating stage will change with the performance chapters, and the scene will light up with blue stars. The two New Year’s Eve shows in Nanning are the end of the whole round. From 2026 to 2027, the audience’s expectations are focused on the “city-limited song + blind box closing song”.
Yi-Lian Lam “Echoes: The Final Chapter”
[Chengdu] Chengdu Dongan Lake Sports Park Main Stadium 2026.11.06-11.07
【Wuhan】Wuhan Wuhuan Sports Center Stadium 2026.11.21
【Gangzhou】Guangzhou University Town Sports Center Stadium 2026.12.19
“Echo” has reached this stage, and there are two more words after the name – the final chapter. Lin Yilian herself said that version 2.0 has prepared a new stage, new visuals, new tracks, and new dances. From the first four shows in Shanghai, I will show you the state of being sixty years old and the voice of forty years old. “Return to Zero” opened, “Gaia” and “Persimmon” were re-deconstructed with giant images and mechanical devices, “Falling in Love with Someone Who Never Goes Home” brought a carriage to the stage, and classic songs such as “Blowed by the Cold Wind for You and Me” and “Words Are Not Expressive” appeared alternately on the same night.
The most poignant thing was the first performance of “At Least I Still Have You”. Lin Yilian burst into tears halfway through singing, and thousands of people continued to sing. The same song, when I was young I heard it was love, now I listen to it is farewell, and if I sing it again it is reconciliation with myself. This is exactly what I want to say in the final chapter. Time takes away a lot, but what really touches you will come back through time.
Emotional home court: The singers we followed together in those years are still singing now
Lin Zhixuan brought “ONEtake 3.0 “Ear Shun” traveled to twenty-eight cities, bringing his craftsmanship of untouched music to indoor venues; Leehom Wang’s “The Best Place II” returned to the stadium and returned the golden arrangement of Chinese pop music at one time; Stephen Chow’s “Youth Fantasy Journey 3.0” faded the sense of distance in the crowd and turned the stadium into a gathering of old friends with “Friends”, “Flower Heart” and “Sword Like a Dream”; Phoenix Legend’s “Auspicious Ruyi” continued to prove that their songs are not in headphones Here, in the square, in the car window, and on the highway when the family is traveling; Na Ying’s “I Come Because You Are Here” brought the aura of the queen of love songs into the museum, singing about the thoughts of a group of people; Gigi Leung sang “Fireworks” and “Coward” at the Coliseum as middle-aged confessions, with the weight of time in her tenderness; Alan Tam brought the golden age of Cantonese songs in the 1980s back to the scene as they were, and the principal did not retire, but just came to renew the contract with old fans.
The scenes of these singers are the most precious place for feelings. It is not about memories, but because intergenerational resonance is still happening.
Lin Zhixuan “ONEtake 3.0 Ear Smooth”
【Shanghai】Oriental Sports Center 2026.10.31 Saturday 18:30
【Hefei】Hefei Shaoquan Sports Center Gymnasium 2026.11.14 Saturday 19:00
【Guangzhou】Baoneng Guangzhou International Sports and Performing Arts Center 2026.11.28 Saturday 19:00
【Longsha】Hunan International Convention and Exhibition Center·Mango Pavilion 2026.12.12 Saturday 19:30
【Tianjin】Tianjin Olympic Center Gymnasium 2026.12.31 Thursday 21:30
Leehom Wang “The Best Place II”
【Gangzhou】Guangdong Olympic Sports Center Stadium 2026.11.07-11.08
【Guiyang】Guiyang Olympic Sports Center Stadium 2026.11.21-11.22
【Wenzhou】Wenzhou Olympic Sports Center Main Stadium 2026.12.04-12.06
Phoenix Legend “Good Luck and Good Luck”
【Beijing】National Stadium-⦦Chao 2026.10.30-11.08
【Nanchang】Nanchang International Sports Center Stadium 2026.11.20-11.22
【Nanning】Guangxi Sports Center Main Stadium 2026.12.04-12.06
Na Ying “I am here because you are here”
【Hangzhou】Hangzhou Olympic Sports AT Center Gymnasium 2026.10.31
【Wuhan】Guangzhou International Tennis Center (Central Court) 2026.11.21
【Guangzhou】Baoneng Guangzhou International Sports and Performing Arts Center 2026.12.12
Alan Tam and you will be “unforgettable”
【Chengdu】Wuliangye Culture and Sports Center Comprehensive Gymnasium 2026.12.04-12.05
【Xiamen】Xiamen Olympic Sports Center-Phoenix Stadium 2026.12.19-12.20
【Wuhan】Guangzhou International Tennis Center (Central Court) 2026.12.31-2027.01.02
【Nanjing】Dream Blue Olympic Sports Park Gymnasium 2027.01.23-01.24
Stephen Chow 2026 “Youth’s Fantasy Journey 3.0”
【Jinan】Jinan Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium 2026.10.31-11.01
【Nanchang】Nanchang International Sports Center Gymnasium 2026.11.07
【Tianjin】Tianjin Olympic Center Gymnasium 2026.11.14-11.22
【Chengdu】Wuliangye Culture and Sports Center Comprehensive Gymnasium 2026.11.28
【Changzhou】Xinqihu Performing Arts Center 2026.12.05
【Shenzhen】Shenzhen Universiade Center Gymnasium 2026.12.11-12.12
【Shanghai】Shanghai Stadium 2026.11.20-11.22
Gigi Leung “LOVEGiGi Love Yourself” (first stop of tour)
【Hong Kong, China】Hung Hom Hong Kong Stadium 2026.11.27-11.29
【Shanghai】Mercedes-Benz Cultural Center 2027.01.09
Limitation and final chapter: a rare scene that cannot be copied
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