In August 2023, when Asake sold out The O2, Olamide got that stage for two songs. He walked out for “Omo Ope” and “Amapiano,” the label boss on his signee’s night, then handed the night back to him. This morning the arena put a date under his own name: Olamide headlines The O2 on Thursday, March 25, 2027.
“London has always shown me love, from the early days to Wembley,” he said in the announcement. “The movement is Lagos built and London amplified,” he added, and he is promising to bring “the whole street to Greenwich” for what the promoters, Hera Touring and YBNL, call the biggest London headline show of his career.
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Before last November, he had not headlined a show of his own in the UK since 2016.
That gap is why OVO Arena Wembley mattered. On November 23, 2025, ten years to the day after “Don’t Stop,” he sold out the 12,500-capacity arena, rolled onto the stage in a vintage car and spent two hours running his catalogue alongside the artists it helped make. Lil Kesh did “Shoki.” Asake, who had left YBNL, came back for “99” with Seyi Vibez, the first time he and Olamide had shared a stage since the split. Olamide sang Pasuma’s “Importer & Exporter” and K1 De Ultimate’s “Omo Naija,” then told the room to take their jackets off because tungba had started. When the arena carried “Lambebe” without him, he paused to answer people online who had said his crowd was gone: “Una say I no get fans?”
The UK has been catching up with the numbers since. In August the BPI gave him his first certifications outside Nigeria, Silver for “Infinity” with Omah Lay and for “Amapiano” with Asake, after more than ten years of hits Nigeria never needed a plaque to confirm. The newer songs he has promised for Greenwich come from last year’s self-titled ‘Olamidé,’ his 11th solo album and the one that reached furthest: two songs with Wizkid, Dr. Dre over a SPINALL beat on “Indika,” and Seyi Vibez on two more.
Guests from Afrobeats and the UK will be named later. At Wembley the question was whether he still had the crowd, and he answered it with his own songs and his own people. The O2 holds 20,000, about 7,500 more than Wembley, and the YBNL names who walked out last November are the first ones his fans will be looking for. Priority tickets for O2 and Virgin Media customers open Wednesday, October 21 at 10am, and general sale starts Friday at 10am.