Rod Wave — born Rodarius Marcell Green in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1999 — released a song called “Heart on Ice” in the summer of 2019 and watched it spread from TikTok and YouTube into something he could not have engineered: a genuine word-of-mouth moment in an era that runs short on those. He was nineteen. By the time it peaked at number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100, he had a deal with Alamo Records and something harder to manufacture than a deal — an audience that felt he was singing directly at them. Seven years, six studio albums, and over 15 billion career streams later, he brings the Don’t Look Down Tour to Austin’s Moody Center on Wednesday, September 23, 2026, at 8:30 PM. Singer-songwriter FRIDAYY joins as special guest throughout the entire run.
About Rod Wave
The arithmetic of Rod Wave’s career is worth pausing on. He is the only male artist to have placed a top-ten album on the Billboard 200 every year from 2019 through 2024 — six consecutive years, six studio albums, each one landing in a chart position that most artists spend a decade working toward. His 2024 album, Last Lap, debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 and reached number one on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart — his fourth consecutive number one on that chart. He currently averages more than 82.3 million weekly streams and sold out his previous arena headline tour.
He works in the register his native St. Petersburg calls “pain music” — Southern hip-hop built on emotional directness, melodic hooks rooted in gospel and R&B, and a willingness to be specific about grief, resilience, and the distance between where you started and where you ended up. The sonic packaging is contemporary, but the impulse runs deeper than the genre; you can hear the ancestry in classic soul and in the emotional strain that has long run through Southern rap, two traditions that always understood you could fill a large room with a voice that told the truth about a hard life. Rod Wave understood that young and has not drifted from it.
His seventh studio album, Don’t Look Down, releases August 28, 2026, via Alamo Records — his first full-length since 2024’s Last Lap. The Don’t Look Down Tour is his largest headline run yet: 25 North American cities, produced by Mainstay Touring, launching September 12 in Philadelphia and closing November 18 in Atlanta. The Austin date falls eleven days into the run, early enough that the new record will still feel fresh in the room. He arrives carrying a 2026 Grammy nomination — Best Song Written for Visual Video, for “Sinners,” featured in Ryan Coogler’s film.
Moody Center
The Moody Center at 2001 Robert Dedman Dr is Austin’s largest indoor entertainment venue, a 15,000-capacity room sized precisely for the scale Rod Wave is operating at in 2026. More venue information at moodycenteratx.com. Lonestar Concerts covers the full Austin concerts calendar.
Tickets
General on-sale is Friday, June 26, 2026 at 1:00 PM CT via Ticketmaster and official-rodwave.com. An artist presale runs June 24–25 for fans who registered by June 22; Spotify Reserve tickets may be available for eligible Premium subscribers. VIP packages and Platinum tickets are available through official-rodwave.com. No ticket prices were listed at time of publication.