{"id":201852,"date":"2025-09-05T08:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T08:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/201852\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T08:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T08:40:10","slug":"tones-and-i-will-perform-at-2025-nba-series-in-melbourne-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/201852\/","title":{"rendered":"Tones And I Will Perform At 2025 NBA Series In Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tones And I<\/a> will get the place bouncing when she performs next month for an historic series of pre-season NBA games<\/a> in Australia.<\/p>\n

Association franchise New Orleans Pelicans will make the long haul to Melbourne, where they\u2019ll tackle NBL finalists Melbourne United on Friday, Oct. 3, and semi-finalists South East Melbourne Phoenix, Oct. 5th, 2025, both at Rod Laver Arena.<\/p>\n

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Confirmed today, Sept. 5, the \u201cDance Monkey\u201d star is the halftime entertainment for the Friday spectacle, and she\u2019ll headline a \u201cFan Night\u201d the following evening.<\/p>\n

Tones (real name Toni Wilson) is a regular courtside guest for Melbourne United\u00a0home games, and is a passionate fan of the sport. She\u2019s the \u201cNumber 1\u201d ticket holder for the franchise, effectively an ambassador for the team, and she performed at a half-time show and a Fan Night in October 2024.<\/p>\n

With 2019\u2019s \u201cDance Monkey,\u201d Tones crushed chart records and landed one of the most-streamed songs in history. The track led Australia\u2019s ARIA Chart for a record 24 weeks; held top spot on the Official UK Chart for 11 weeks, a record for a solo female artist; and went top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. All told, the song hit the top spot on sales charts in more than 30 territories, and has danced past 3.3 billion streams on Spotify.<\/p>\n

Tones has two ARIA No. 1 albums to her name, a slew of ARIA Awards, and she\u2019s said play the point guard position like a pro.<\/p>\n

The NBAxNBL games will be the first played by NBA squads in Australia, one of the Association\u2019s most fanatical international markets. Australia is said to be the No. 2 territories outside of the United States for subscriptions to the NBA\u2019s League Pass app.<\/p>\n

The NBA\u2019s long-overdue crossing to Australia follows the announcement by the NFL this year of a multi-year arrangement to play regular season games at the Melbourne Cricket Ground from next year, featuring the Los Angeles Rams.<\/p>\n

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