TXT Joins the 2026 iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Tour, Marking the Group’s First-Ever Appearance
TOMORROW X TOGETHER is officially heading to one of the biggest stages in American pop music.
The K-pop group has been confirmed for the 2026 iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Tour Presented by Capital One, marking the first time TXT has ever appeared on the lineup of the annual holiday concert series.
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The announcement, confirmed by Big Hit Music on September 26 and corroborated by iHeartRadio’s own tour materials, places TXT alongside some of the biggest names in pop for the tour’s year-end run through major U.S. arenas this December.
For a group that has spent the past several years steadily building its footprint in the U.S. touring and festival circuit, a Jingle Ball booking is a significant marker.
The tour is widely regarded as the flagship event of pop radio’s year-end season, and a spot on the bill signals that a group has crossed over into the mainstream American pop conversation in a way that festival slots alone don’t always capture.
What We Know About TXT’s Jingle Ball Dates
The clearest, most consistently reported detail is that TXT — with member Yeonjun specifically named in the lineup — will perform at the New York stop of the tour on December 11 at Madison Square Garden.
This is the flagship date of the entire tour, traditionally the most heavily attended and most widely covered stop, and it puts TXT on a bill that includes Hilary Duff, Sombr, Alex Warren, Charlie Puth, Teddy Swims, and Sienna Spiro, among others.
Several outlets covering the breaking news have also reported that TXT’s Jingle Ball run will extend beyond New York to include Boston (December 13) and Washington, D.C. (December 14) — two more stops on the tour’s East Coast leg.
If accurate, that would give TXT a three-city run across the tour’s first two weeks, an unusually substantial commitment for a group’s Jingle Ball debut, where acts more commonly appear at a single flagship stop.
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It’s worth being precise about the state of that reporting, though: as of this writing, the New York date is the one confirmed across multiple major outlets covering the full city-by-city lineups, while the Boston and D.C. appearances currently rest on a smaller number of sources.
The bigger trade outlets that have published detailed, stop-by-stop lineups for Boston and Washington, D.C. have listed other headliners for those shows without mentioning TXT specifically, which suggests either that full local lineups are still being finalized and published on a rolling basis, or that some initial reports got ahead of iHeartRadio’s own official confirmations.
Given how fresh the announcement is — it broke within the same 24-hour news cycle as the tour’s full lineup reveal — some discrepancy between early reports is normal, and additional lineup details for individual cities are likely to be confirmed or corrected as ticket on-sales approach.
Readers who want to plan around a specific city should treat the New York date as locked in and the Boston and D.C. dates as reported, pending final confirmation from iHeartRadio.
Yeonjun Steps Out for a Solo Stage
Beyond the group appearances, Yeonjun is set to take on a separate solo performance slot somewhere within the tour run — a notable individual spotlight that sits apart from TXT’s group sets.
Solo stages at Jingle Ball are relatively rare and tend to be reserved for artists iHeartRadio wants to highlight as an emerging or crossover individual presence, which makes this a meaningful addition to TXT’s collective November-December activity.
It also continues a pattern within K-pop’s engagement with major U.S. radio festivals, where individual members are increasingly given space to perform outside their group context, reflecting both the members’ growing individual profiles and U.S. programmers’ interest in packaging them as distinct draws.
The Full 2026 Jingle Ball Tour Lineup and Schedule
TXT’s booking comes as part of a stacked, nine-city 2026 Jingle Ball run that iHeartMedia unveiled this week.
The tour, presented by Capital One, will kick off on December 1 in Dallas/Fort Worth at Dickies Arena and wrap on December 17 in Nashville — a new addition to the tour’s city roster this year. In between, the tour stops in Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia.
The full schedule, as currently announced:
- December 1 — Dallas/Fort Worth, TX (Dickies Arena)
- December 4 — Los Angeles, CA (Intuit Dome)
- December 7 — Chicago, IL (Allstate Arena)
- December 8 — Detroit, MI (Little Caesars Arena)
- December 11 — New York, NY (Madison Square Garden)
- December 13 — Boston, MA (TD Garden)
- December 14 — Washington, D.C. (Capital One Arena)
- December 15 — Philadelphia, PA
- December 17 — Nashville, TN
Lineups vary significantly from city to city, which is standard for Jingle Ball’s format.
Across the nine stops, the broader roster of confirmed performers includes Olivia Rodrigo, the Jonas Brothers, Hilary Duff, Sombr, Charlie Puth, RAYE, Alex Warren, KATSEYE, OneRepublic, Ludacris, Teddy Swims, Sienna Spiro, Tove Lo, Jason Derulo, Dominic Fike, Myles Smith, Adéla, JYT, and more, with individual city bills mixing and matching from that pool.
Olivia Rodrigo, for instance, is set to headline the Los Angeles stop at Intuit Dome, while Chicago’s Allstate Arena show is expected to be led by RAYE.
This variation in lineup is part of what makes Jingle Ball dates worth tracking individually rather than assuming any single artist will appear across the whole run — TXT’s presence on the New York bill doesn’t necessarily carry over to every other stop, which is exactly why the Boston and D.C. reports deserve the “developing” caveat noted above.
Why TXT’s Jingle Ball Debut Matters
Jingle Ball carries outsized significance in the U.S. pop calendar because it functions as a kind of year-end scoreboard for which artists have connected most strongly with American pop radio audiences over the previous twelve months.
Unlike genre-specific festivals or K-pop-branded events, the Jingle Ball bill draws largely from Top 40 radio’s core rotation — meaning a booking is as much a statement about an artist’s mainstream American reach as it is a touring opportunity.
For TXT specifically, the booking arrives amid a period of sustained growth in the group’s U.S. presence, built through television performances, radio play, and prior festival and touring activity. Landing a debut Jingle Ball slot
And specifically a Madison Square Garden appearance, the tour’s most prestigious individual date — suggests iHeartRadio programmers see the group as having crossed a threshold of mainstream recognition among their listener base.
It’s also consistent with a broader trend of K-pop acts appearing on major U.S. radio festival bills in recent years; MONSTA X, for example, appeared on the 2025 edition of the Jingle Ball tour, suggesting iHeartRadio has been steadily building relationships with K-pop acts as part of its year-end programming strategy.
Broadcast and Ticket Details
As with previous years, the Jingle Ball tour will extend beyond the arenas themselves. ABC will exclusively air an “iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2026” holiday television special in December, featuring performance highlights from across the tour, with the special also streaming the next day on Hulu, Disney+, and video on demand.
That broadcast component means fans unable to attend any of the nine live shows in person will still get a chance to see condensed performance footage, though it’s not yet confirmed which specific sets — including whether TXT’s New York performance — will make the final broadcast cut.
On the ticketing side, the rollout follows the tour’s standard structure. Eligible Capital One cardholders get first access to tickets through a presale window beginning Tuesday, September 29 at 10 a.m. local time, running through general on-sale.
General tickets for all nine shows go on sale to the public starting Friday, October 2 at 12 p.m. local time, available through Ticketmaster.
Given the high demand typically associated with Jingle Ball’s biggest markets — New York’s Madison Square Garden show chief among them — fans hoping to see TXT’s debut appearance in person are likely to want to be ready at the presale window rather than waiting for general on-sale.
What Fans Should Watch For Next
With the initial lineup announcement made, the most important remaining question for TXT fans is confirmation of the full scope of the group’s Jingle Ball run.
iHeartRadio and Big Hit Music are both likely to release additional details — including finalized city-by-city set confirmations — in the days and weeks leading up to the tour, particularly as individual radio stations in each market begin promoting their local shows ahead of the September 29 presale.
For now, what’s certain is this: TXT’s Jingle Ball era begins on December 11 in New York, with Yeonjun set to take the stage both with the group and in a standalone solo slot elsewhere on the tour.
Whether that run extends to Boston and Washington, D.C. as currently reported remains something to watch as the tour’s remaining logistics come into focus. Either way, the booking marks a new chapter in TXT’s U.S. trajectory — one that places them squarely among the biggest pop acts of the year on one of the genre’s most closely watched annual stages.