Charli XCX to headline Belsonic 2025
BRAT summer continues 🍏 🎶 🎤
Pop Star Charli XCX is pleased to announce a headline show at Belsonic next summer, with special guest, The Japanese House.
📍Ormeau Park, Belfast
📆 Wednesday 18th June 2025
🎟️ Tickets on sale Friday 22nd November at 12noon from ticketmaster.ie
Charli released her number 1 selling album ‘BRAT’ earlier this year to critical acclaim.
Avant-pop and electronic superstar Charli xcx has become an iconic figure in the arts, having helped expand the landscape of popular music over the last decade by seamlessly traversing the underground and mainstream with her artistic output.
Over the course of a trailblazing career, the multi-hyphenate creative has earned critical acclaim for her innovative style and entrepreneurial spirit and seen her forward-thinking approach reshape pop culture in the process.
She released her sixth studio album ‘BRAT’ in June which stands as the most critically acclaimed album of the year and landed at Number 1 on the UK Official Album Chart in October. ‘BRAT’ has well and truly made its mark on the cultural zeitgeist this year; the audacious campaign has seen Charli cause roadblocks around the world with her pop-up ‘PARTYGIRL’ DJ sets, break the internet with viral videos and surprise collaborations with the likes of Billie Eilish, Lorde, Addison Rae, Robyn, Yung Lean, Julia Fox, Chloë Sevigny, and Rachel Sennott and introduce a new tone of green to the social lexicon.
The album was nominated for the Mercury Prize 2024 while ‘Guess featuring Billie Eilish’ debuted at Number 1 on the UK Official Singles Chart, making Charli the first British artist to land at the top of the charts this year. In October, Charli followed it up with ‘Brat and it's completely different but also still brat’ - a brand-new version of the critically acclaimed album featuring reimagined takes and innovative reworks of tracks from ‘BRAT’ featuring the likes of Julian Casablancas, Bon Iver, The 1975, Shygirl, Ariana Grande, Caroline Polachek and more.
Charli has also been working on multiple film & TV projects following the breakout success of her Barbie soundtrack contribution ‘Speed Drive’ last year. She is co-executive producing the score for the A24 film ‘Mother Mary’ with Jack Antonoff and also producing original music for Benito Skinner’s series ‘Overcompensating’ on Prime Video. In addition, Charli will star in the Daniel Goldhaber remake of 1978 cult horror film ‘Faces of Death’ and Greg Araki’s erotic thriller ‘I Want Your Sex’.
Her lasting impact was cemented last year when Charli was honoured with the Visionary Award at the annual Ivor Novellos in London, while she also received the Powerhouse Award at Billboard’s Women In Music ceremony in March and the ASCAP Global Impact Award in May.
Check out the other Belsonic 2025 headliners 👇
Stereophonics - Thursday 5th Jun 2025
Starting in Belfast at Belsonic, Stereophonics will play some of the UK and Ireland's biggest venues including Dublin St. Anne's Park, Cork Virgin Media Park, London Finsbury Park, Huddersfield John Smith's Stadium, and Glasgow Bellahouston Park as part of Summer Sessions. The tour culminates with a huge hometown return to Cardiff's Principality Stadium.
Kelly said: "Being on the road again with my best friends, playing all the hits of this bands catalogue, for people in huge outdoor gatherings through the summer of 2025 makes me so excited, we should make a new album…oh wait …we already did that! See ya there for more good times….TUNE!!! TUNE!!! TUNE!!"
Lush! Classical - Saturday 7th June 2025
After 8 years of sell out SSE Arena shows, Lush! Classical is moving outdoors for their only show next year and its their biggest show to date!
Joining forces with Belsonic to deliver a magical evening where the Ulster Orchestra meets dance anthems, and the results are quite simply out of this world.
Charli XCX - Wednesday 28th June 2025
Pop Star Charli XCX is pleased to announce a headline show at Belsonic next summer, with special guest, The Japanese House.
Avant-pop and electronic superstar Charli xcx has become an iconic figure in the arts, having helped expand the landscape of popular music over the last decade by seamlessly traversing the underground and mainstream with her artistic output.
Over the course of a trailblazing career, the multi-hyphenate creative has earned critical acclaim for her innovative style and entrepreneurial spirit and seen her forward-thinking approach reshape pop culture in the process.
Snow Patrol - Saturday 21st June 2025
Snow Patrol are set to perform to a home-crowd next summer for Belsonic 2025. Their stunning number one new album 'The Forest Is The Path' featuring new single 'Everything's Here And Nothing's Lost' is out now.
Now comprising the trio of Gary Lightbody, Nathan Connolly and Johnny McDaid, Snow Patrol offered the first tastes of their extraordinary new album with singles 'The Beginning', 'This Is The Sound Of Your Voice' and 'All'.
Justin Timberlake - Thursday 26th June 2025
Fans can expect to hear their favourite hit singles spanning across Justin Timberlake's entire catalogue alongside singles from his latest album Everything I Thought It Was. Justin's sixth studio album, Everything I Thought It Was, is now available on all platforms.
Throughout his career, he's sold over 54 million albums and 63 million singles globally, and a further 70 million records as the lead vocalist of *NSYNC.
blk. - Friday 27th June 2025
Following a Sold Out 3 Arena and Emerge Belfast shows, one of Ireland's fastest rising DJ/Producers blk. is pleased to announce his biggest Irish headline show to date at Belsonic, Ormeau Park, Belfast on Friday 27th June 2025.
blk. has been booked as the main headliner for some of the UK and Europe's biggest underground dance music and commercial festivals and is pushing huge boundaries with his music. With his own platforms amassing a huge 30+ million plays across some of his tracks on SoundCloud and having his own monthly fan base of 200k+ listeners on Spotify alone, the best is still yet to come.⠀
Alanis Morissette - Monday 30th June 2025
Since 1995, Alanis Morissette has been one of the most influential singer-songwriter-musicians in contemporary music.
Morissette's 1995 album JAGGED LITTLE PILL was a tour de force that changed the sound of pop music around the world. It was followed by nine more eclectic and acclaimed albums. She has contributed musically to theatrical releases and has acted on the big and small screen.
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