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Malcolm Todd: from a Cold Stone Creamery job to two nights at Radio City
Malcolm Todd turned two songs that spread on TikTok in 2023 into a Columbia contract, a No. 5 album and the biggest headline run of his career. At 23 he is playing Radio City Music Hall while critics argue over whether the songwriting has kept pace with the audience.
Pacific Palisades, a bass guitar and a place he never took up
Malcolm Todd was born in Los Angeles on 15 September 2003 and raised in Pacific Palisades, where he attended Palisades Charter High School. His father, Tim Hobert, worked as a co-executive producer on the sitcom The Middle; his mother put Broadway cast recordings and Stevie Wonder in front of him early. He was given a bass guitar at sixteen and taught himself to play during the pandemic, moving on to acoustic guitar afterwards. Still at school, he and his friend Charlie Ziman put out an EP, 'Demos Before Prom', in 2022.
A place at the University of Oregon to study music production went unused. He withdrew a week before he was due to start and paid for his early recording by working at a Cold Stone Creamery. In 2023 two songs, 'Art House' and 'Roommates', found an audience on TikTok. He played his first live show that July at Winston House in Venice, Los Angeles, and it sold out. Columbia Records signed him on the back of the traffic.
The household produced two careers rather than one. His sister, Audrey Hobert, is a songwriter who released her own debut album, 'Who's the Clown?', in 2025, has been counted among the collaborators around his records, and has covered him for Like a Version.
'Sweet Boy' and the self-titled record
The 2024 mixtape 'Sweet Boy' gave him a body of work to tour behind, and the Sweet Boy Tour followed. He also spent part of that year on the road as the opening act for the North American leg of Omar Apollo's God Said No tour, which put him in front of rooms several sizes larger than he could fill alone.
The self-titled debut album arrived on 4 April 2025, with Jonah Cochran among its producers. It entered the Billboard 200 at 103 and climbed to 49. 'Chest Pain (I Love)' became his first Hot 100 entry, peaking at 68, and was followed by 'Bleed' with Omar Apollo, 'Cheer Me On' and 'Original'. A deluxe edition, 'Malcolm Todd (still)', appeared in August 2025.
The touring year that went with it was the Wholesome Rockstar Tour, plus festival slots at Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival and Laneway. The sound settled into what he has carried since: indie pop with the chord choices and rhythmic feel of 2010s alternative R&B, with Steve Lacy, Omar Apollo, Dominic Fike and Ryan Beatty audible in it.
'Do That Again' and a split verdict
The second album was recorded across six months at Electric Lady Studios in New York and Chaplin Studios in Los Angeles, and released on 5 June 2026 through Columbia. It runs 35 minutes and 44 seconds over 13 tracks, and was preceded by 'Breathe' on 13 March 2026 and 'I Saw Your Face' on 23 April 2026. It entered the Billboard 200 at No. 5 with 67,000 album-equivalent units, his first top-ten record, and reached No. 3 in Australia and No. 7 in New Zealand. All 13 tracks charted on the US Spotify chart in release week.
Critics did not agree. Metacritic settled at 67. PopMatters scored it 8/10 and called 'I Saw Your Face' the emotional centrepiece, singling out the spoken-word voicemail buried in 'X's & O's' and the melodic interpolation running under 'Lonely Song'. Rolling Stone gave it four stars, crediting the self-awareness in the writing. AllMusic came in at 2.5 out of five, judging the songwriting less charming second time round.
Beats Per Minute went further, scoring it 40 per cent. Steve Forstneger found Todd meandering through underdeveloped character sketches, argued that the influences he draws on — Omar Apollo, Brent Faiyaz, Steve Lacy — are borrowed rather than synthesised, and questioned whether an artist who went from novice to billions of streams inside three years can sustain it. He still named 'I Saw Your Face' the record's strongest moment, and its line 'Life's not a movie / I'm not a movie star' the most honest thing on it.
Where he stands in September 2026
The commercial engine of this year has not been a 2026 single at all. 'Earrings', a track from 2024, became a global sleeper hit, reaching the top 40 in the UK and Canada and peaking at No. 19 on the Billboard Hot 100. It carries an RIAA platinum certification, and it is the moment the crowd waits for on the current run.
The rest of the year has followed the pattern of an act being pushed into the mainstream: a performance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, a spot in Gap's Fall 2026 'Denim on Your Own' campaign alongside the actor Inde Navarrette, a nomination for Best New Artist at the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards and another for International Rising Artist at the 2026 BreakTudo Awards.
On 14 September 2026 the touring plan went worldwide, with 24 international dates added. Asia runs from 23 November to 12 December 2026 through Taipei, Tokyo, Manila, Singapore, Seoul, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta. Europe and the UK follow from 12 February to 2 March 2027, taking in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Cologne, Brussels, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, Dublin, Glasgow, Birmingham and Manchester, with Natanya opening. Four Australian dates land between 12 and 21 May 2027 in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, with Maden Lane supporting. Artist presales opened on 15 September, with general onsales from 18 September for Europe, the UK and Asia, and 20 September for Australia.
The venue step-up
The Do That Again Tour was announced on 8 June 2026: 38 dates across 27 North American cities, with an artist presale on 9 June and the general onsale on 11 June. It opened on 2 September at the Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory in Irving, Texas, in front of roughly 8,000 people, and closes at the end of October with a three-night stand at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. In between sit the rooms that mark the jump: The Met in Philadelphia across 18 and 19 September, The Anthem in Washington on 20 September, Radio City Music Hall on 22 and 23 September, MGM Music Hall at Fenway in Boston, two nights at History in Toronto, the Fox Theatre in Detroit, The Salt Shed in Chicago and the Paramount in Seattle.
Demand has priced accordingly. Cheapest seats started around $100 for the Irving opener, $112 in Charlotte and $130 in Raleigh, while both Toronto dates opened above $449. VIP packages sold through VIP Nation bundle a premium ticket with a meet-and-greet and individual photo, access to a pre-show question-and-answer session and acoustic performance, and early entry to the venue.
The summer that preceded it was festival work — Osheaga in Montreal on 1 August and Outside Lands in San Francisco on 8 August — which is where a good deal of the current setlist was tested before the headline rooms got it.
The show, now
A Do That Again Tour show runs about 80 to 85 minutes with no interval: the 2 September opener in Irving ran 21:05 to 22:25 for 23 songs, and the 18 September Metropolitan Opera House date in Philadelphia ran 21:10 to 22:35. The shape has held city to city. It opens with 'Jean Skirt', then 'Breathe' and 'Malcolm in the Middle', works through 'Free.99', 'Difficult Love', 'Walk to Class', 'Bleed', 'You Owe Me', 'X's & O's', 'Obsessica' and '4Me 4Me', banks 'Sweet Boy', 'Cheer Me On' and 'Chest Pain (I Love)' in the back third, and puts 'Earrings' and 'I Saw Your Face' at the end of the main set before an encore of the title track and 'Roommates'. Six songs got their live debut on opening night. The staging leans on screens running old music videos and childhood home footage, with props doing specific jobs — a telephone handset used as a microphone, a magic 8-ball to introduce 'Do That Again'. Support comes from 54 Ultra, roughly 30 minutes of Latin soul at a lower tempo than the headline set. Reviewers of the Irving show noted the crowd carrying the vocal on 'Earrings' and the room jumping through 'Roommates' at the close, and Todd filling the gap left by the cut voicemail intro on 'X's & O's' with crowd work instead.
Researched from en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org · news.livenationentertainment.com · news.pollstar.com · celebrityaccess.com · consequence.net · setlist.fm · setlist.fm
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