Post Malone will ring in 2027 at the Delta Center

Utah's most famous adopted son headlines New Year's Eve downtown, the centerpiece of a Winter Weekend built around the NHL Winter Classic.

Salt Lake City's biggest New Year's Eve ticket just got a headliner who lives up the canyon.

Post Malone plays the Delta Center on Thursday, Dec 31, with a listed start of 6pm. The show was announced Oct 28, and tickets are available through the Delta Center. The arena holds 18,300, which makes it the biggest room in town for the biggest night of the year.

This is not a stand-alone booking. As KSL and KUTV reported, the concert is part of Smith Entertainment Group's "Winter Weekend," built around the NHL Winter Classic at Rice-Eccles Stadium. The plan moves the celebration downtown after the game. Around it, the Jazz host the Knicks on Dec 30 and the Celtics on Jan 1, and the Mammoth play the Canucks on Jan 2, as FOX 13 laid out. It is a four-day run of big events, and the Post Malone show is the night most people will remember.

When to get tickets: now. The general on-sale opened Friday, Oct 30, so by the time you read this, seats have been moving for several days. SEG said more than 6,000 tickets were priced under $125, according to KSL. For a New Year's Eve arena show with a headliner this size, waiting is not a strategy.

For a New Year's Eve arena show with a headliner this size, waiting is not a strategy.

Why this room, and why this artist? Because Post Malone is, by now, practically a local. He lives in Cottonwood Heights, which Deseret News has written about, and he has made a habit of showing up for the state. In April 2025 he opened his Big Ass Stadium Tour at Rice-Eccles, his first stadium show in Utah, as The Salt Lake Tribune covered. KUTV later reported he would come back to Salt Lake City for the tour's final stop. There is a reason KSL Sports once ran a list of times he gave Utahns something to smile about.

So a Delta Center New Year's Eve fits a pattern. When the city throws a big civic party, Post Malone is one of the few artists who can headline it and also, more or less, be a neighbor. And after a day at the Winter Classic, the arena puts the night indoors and downtown, which in a Utah December is no small mercy.

A few practical notes. Plan your route home well before midnight: downtown will be busy, between the hockey crowd, the concert crowd and everyone else out for the night. And if you are doing both the game and the show, build in time between them.

Most New Year's Eves are about who you are with. This one is also about where you are, in a downtown arena with a hometown headliner, counting down together.

Sources: Post Malone, Alesso to headline new Salt Lake City New Year's Eve festival (KSL) (ksl.com); Post Malone to headline New Year's Eve concert following NHL Winter Classic in Utah (KUTV) (kutv.com); Post Malone joins Jazz, Mammoth as part of massive Winter Weekend (FOX 13) (fox13now.com); Post Malone in Utah: Cottonwood Heights (Deseret News) (deseret.com); Post Malone's Big Ass Stadium Tour (Salt Lake Tribune) (sltrib.com); Post Malone announces return to Salt Lake City for final stop in stadium tour (KUTV/KJZZ) (kjzz.com); Three Times Post Malone Gave Utahns Something To Smile About (KSL Sports) (kslsports.com); Post Malone was told he would never play his hometown stadium (Stacker via KTVZ) (ktvz.com); Post Malone at Delta Center (JamBase listing) (jambase.com)