SB19 leads Lollapalooza with July 30, 2026 debut

SB19 will perform at Lollapalooza on July 30, 2026, becoming the first Filipino group to appear at the festival during a July-August U.S. and Japan run.

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SB19 leads Lollapalooza with July 30, 2026 debut

SB19 will perform at Lollapalooza on July 30, 2026, and the booking makes the group the first Filipino act to appear at the festival. The announcement landed on July 18, 2026, as part of a July and August promotional schedule across the United States and Japan.

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July 18 schedule drop

“The calendar is set. The climb continues. One nation behind us. The world before us,” SB19 wrote on social media on July 18, 2026. The line fits the route the group laid out: a Los Angeles start on July 25, then a run through later stops that place Lollapalooza in the middle of a tightly packed itinerary.

July 25, 2026 brings the first stop in Los Angeles, California, with a one-day exclusive pop-up store at 100 Thieves from 10AM to 5PM. The format is narrow by design: a single day, a fixed window, and a limited retail setup that gives A’TIN a direct in-person entry point before the larger public appearances begin.

Global Spin Live demand

July 28, 2026 adds a second Los Angeles stop at the GRAMMY Museum in Los Angeles for Global Spin Live, and Tickets for Global Spin Live sold out within minutes. SB19 follows that with the ceremonial first pitch on July 29, 2026 before the Chicago White Sox and New York Yankees game, then turns to Lollapalooza the next day. The pace is the story here: the group moves from retail activation to museum appearance to sports and festival stages in four days.

July 30, 2026 is the payoff date. SB19 joins Olivia Dean, The Smashing Pumpkins, Zara Larsson, JENNIE, BINI and others at Lollapalooza, a lineup slot that places the group beside globally known acts and gives the booking its business value as well as its symbolic one. For a Filipino group, that kind of placement is the benchmark, not the decoration.

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August in Sacramento and Japan

August 8 and 9, 2026, keep the tour moving with the first I Was There Thanksgiving fan meet in Sacramento, California. August 14 and 15 follow with Summer Sonic 2026 in Osaka and Tokyo, where SB19 will join BINI and ena mori in representing the Philippines. The month closes on August 18, 2026, with a second I Was There Thanksgiving fan meet in Yokohama, Japan.

That sequence leaves one practical conclusion: this is not a single festival booking but a compressed cross-market run built around live attendance, limited merchandise, and headline slots that sold quickly when tickets went on sale. Fans who want the Los Angeles pop-up or the later fan meet stops need to work against a short clock, and SB19’s climb now runs through July and August without much breathing room.

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