The singer behind “Location” and “Eastside”, Khalid brought the It’s Always Summer Somewhere Tour to British Airways ARC, the new arena at Olympia.
Khalid, whose songs have been streamed more than 35 billion times, played British Airways ARC, the new arena at Olympia in West Kensington, on Thursday 15 October 2026. It was his London date on the It’s Always Summer Somewhere Tour.
Khalid Robinson was born in 1998 at Fort Stewart, Georgia, into an army family. He moved between Kentucky, upstate New York and six years in Heidelberg before a final school year in El Paso.
He posted his first songs to SoundCloud. “Location”, released just before he graduated, went diamond in America and brought a deal with Right Hand Music Group and RCA. American Teen followed in 2017 and went four times platinum.
Free Spirit opened at number one in America in 2019, and that April he had more monthly listeners on Spotify than any artist in the world. “Love Lies”, with Normani, and “Eastside”, with Halsey and Benny Blanco, both set records for the longest run on America’s mainstream pop radio chart.
The London night came a year after After the Sun Goes Down, released in October 2025, which followed Sincere in 2024.
Jae Stephens, a Los Angeles pop and R&B singer, songwriter and producer, opened.