A decade after ‘Closer’ became one of the internet generation’s most iconic songs, the Grammy Award-winning global superstars The Chainsmokers will be returning to India for a massive three-city India tour across Mumbai on December 18th, Delhi on December 19th and Bengaluru on December 20th.
As part of the tour, the Mumbai leg will see the duo headline Sunburn Festival 2026 at Mumbai’s iconic Mahalaxmi Racecourse, marking a landmark new chapter for the festival as it arrives in the heart of the city.
Ticket sales for the Mumbai and Bengaluru legs of The Chainsmokers India Tour 2026 are available on BookMyShow. Delhi, register NOW to get ahead of the crowd and stay tuned for further details on BookMyShow.
There are some songs that become bigger than music. They become memories. They become timelines. They become entire phases of life. For millennials and Gen Z across India, The Chainsmokers were exactly that. Whether it was screaming the lyrics to ‘Closer’ during college fests, hearing ‘Don’t Let Me Down’ at every party, putting ‘Paris’ on during late-night drives or watching ‘Something Just Like This’ become a festival anthem across the world, The Chainsmokers didn’t just dominate charts; they defined a cultural moment for an entire generation growing up online, hyper-connected and emotionally attached to music in a completely new way.
Commenting on the announcement, Karan Singh, CEO, Sunburn, said, “There are very few artists whose music instantly transports people back to a specific phase of their lives and The Chainsmokers are absolutely one of them. For Indian millennials and Gen Z, their songs became part of core youth culture moments over the last decade. We understand the emotional excitement fans have around witnessing them live again, especially at a time when nostalgia and shared cultural experiences are driving fan communities globally. Our vision is to create large-scale cultural moments where music, fandom, production and community come together in a way that reflects the scale of what young India wants from live entertainment today.”
The announcement also signals a defining moment for Sunburn itself. Over nearly two decades, Sunburn Festival has evolved from being a music festival into a cultural phenomenon that has helped shape India’s live entertainment and electronic music ecosystem. At a time when young audiences are increasingly seeking experiences that feel immersive, emotionally memorable and culturally relevant, the festival’s move to Mahalaxmi Racecourse represents a larger ambition to reimagine what large-scale music experiences in India can look and feel like.
From collaborating with Coldplay and Halsey to creating tracks that continue to soundtrack nostalgia-heavy social media trends even today, Drew Taggart and Alex Pall built music that blurred the lines between dance music and pop culture. Their songs became emotional markers for a generation navigating friendships, love, freedom, ambition and identity in the digital era.
While The Chainsmokers have kicked off the celebrations, fans across the country are already asking the next big question: Who will Sunburn Festival 2026 announce next?
Stay tuned on BookMyShow, India’s leading entertainment destination and these social media handles for more information on the festival:
● Instagram: @sunburnfestival
● X (Formerly Twitter): @SunburnFestival
● Facebook: SunburnFestival
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About The Chainsmokers:
The Chainsmokers, comprised of Drew Taggart and Alex Pall, have consistently elevated popular music by ceaselessly challenging it. The GRAMMY® Award-winning RIAA Diamond-certified duo have broken boundaries between pop, indie, electronic, alternative, and rock. By doing so, they have set the tempo for culture and proven inescapable, delivering some of the biggest songs in the world, hosting a historic multi-year Las Vegas residency recently renewed through 2029, packing arenas across continents, launching first-of-its-kind metaverse projects, and selling tens of millions of singles along the way.
Drew and Alex forged an unbreakable creative bond in 2012 that enabled the group to independently achieve viral impact, kickstarting a prolific decade to follow. Thus far, their catalog has sold over 118 million records globally and includes three Diamond singles, including the Billboard Hot 100 #1 “Closer” [feat. Halsey], “Something Just Like This” [with Coldplay], and “Don’t Let Me Down” [feat. Daya] which earned a GRAMMY® Award for “Best Dance Recording.” “Closer” has since become one of the most-streamed songs in Spotify history. As cultural arbiters and tastemakers, they’ve also fueled crossover success for collaborators as diverse as Lennon Stella (“Takeaway” with Illenium), Kelsea Ballerini (“This Feeling”) and Taylor Swift (“The Fate of Ophelia – The Chainsmokers Remix”). Their 2017 full-length debut, Memories…Do Not Open, notably premiered at #1 on the Billboard 200 followed by gold-certified albums Sick Boy [2018] and World War Joy [2019]. Both albums were followed by 40+ city sold out arena tours. In 2020, the guys notably composed the original score to the acclaimed independent film Words On Bathroom Walls.
Eschewing guest spots, The Chainsmokers reached a new creative and critical high watermark with So Far So Good in 2022. It marked their fourth #1 debut on the Billboard Top Dance/Electronic Albums Chart. Pitchfork applauded it as “their most enjoyable front-to-back listen,” and Billboard hailed it as “music that balances sing-along indie-pop and nuanced, often deeply textured electronic productions.”
In 2024, they released the acclaimed EP No Hard Feelings, and in 2025 continued their streak with hits like “Addicted” ft. Zerb & Ink and “Don’t Lie” with Kim Petras followed by their EP, Breathe, released in October 2025 which features standout singles “Smooth,” “Helium” and “White Wine & Adderall”. The Chainsmokers returned in 2026 with their Love is Kind EP, a collaborative project with Oaks – also known as Winona Oak – who they previously worked with on their single “Hope” in 2018.
Parallel to their music, the duo have become world class technology investors. In 2020, they founded Mantis Venture Capital. Today, Mantis invests in the most disruptive and defensible early-stage technology companies (130+ investments to date), with $225 in assets under management), and a recently closed $100M Fund III in July of 2025, enabling further expansion across early-stage AI, cybersecurity, and fintech. Notable recent investments include depthfirst and Chainguard.The core thesis behind Mantis is the recognition that founders today have unprecedented access to monetary capital. Mantis excels in the more elusive and powerful resource, social capital, which generates market demand, rapidly expands a brand, and draws others in – a key quality that gives Drew and Alex an paralleled eddge in the space as investors.
At the same time, Drew and Alex give back at every turn. In the midst of the global pandemic, Drew and Alex funded the production and delivery of tens of thousands of PPE N95 masks to hospitals in New York and Las Vegas. The charity Youth Emerging Stronger recognized The Chainsmokers with the “Key of Hope Award” for their commitment to philanthropy and underprivileged children.
Ultimately, The Chainsmokers continue to evolve as musicians and songwriters, bringing popular music with them into the future.