Charlie Puth Live in Manila: Dates, Tickets & Venue (Pasay)

What’s happening on October 14

Charlie Puth, the American singer-songwriter behind “Attention,” “We Don’t Talk Anymore” and “Left and Right,” was booked to headline a concert at Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay on October 14, 2026. It was a single-city Manila date on his touring calendar, not a festival slot, and was planned as a full headline set rather than a shared bill.

Puth built his name on close-mic vocal runs and looping-pedal production, and his live shows tend to lean on that same intimacy even inside an arena-sized room. Manila has hosted him before, and the city’s pop audience is loud and lyric-perfect, so sing-along segments are part of the usual shape of these nights.

The venue: Mall of Asia Arena

Mall of Asia Arena is one of the largest indoor concert venues in the Philippines, seating roughly 15,000 to 20,000 depending on the stage configuration. It sits inside the SM Mall of Asia complex on Seaside Boulevard, right along Manila Bay in Pasay.

The arena is a fixture for major international acts touring Southeast Asia, so the building itself is set up for this kind of show: multiple entry gates, a large general admission floor, and tiered seating rising around it. Because it’s attached to a mall, concertgoers can eat inside the complex and walk straight into the queue without a separate stop.

Getting there and getting in

Pasay sits just south of Manila proper, and Mall of Asia Arena is easy to reach from most parts of Metro Manila.

• By car or ride-hailing: Grab is the standard option; traffic is heavy and pickup zones are slow on show nights.
• By taxi or shuttle from the airport: Ninoy Aquino International Airport is about 20 to 30 minutes away depending on terminal and traffic.
• By public transport: the nearest LRT-1 station is EDSA or Baclaran, followed by a jeepney, tricycle, or short ride-hail transfer into the Mall of Asia complex.
• On foot within the mall: the arena is a separate structure from the main mall building, connected by open walkways, and arena signage rather than mall directories points the way once inside the complex.

On big shows, the queue for general admission floor entry typically forms outside the arena’s main gates hours before doors open.

Tickets and pricing tiers

Concerts at Mall of Asia Arena are usually sold through the venue’s official ticketing partners, with tiers that generally range from upper box seating to lower box, patron sections, and a general admission floor. Pricing depends on tier and typically runs from budget-friendly upper-level seats to premium patron and floor packages.

Resale listings and unofficial social media links are the usual source of counterfeit tickets for arena shows in Manila, while the venue’s official partners handle primary sales.

SM Mall of Asia before the show

The mall wrapping around the arena is one of the largest in the country, and it functions as the neighborhood’s built-in green room for concertgoers. Food courts, standalone restaurants, and fast-casual chains line the complex, so dinner before doors is straightforward rather than a scramble.

The Mall of Asia grounds also run along Manila Bay, and the seawall promenade nearby is where a lot of pre-show crowds drift to catch sunset before heading into the arena. For evening shows, this stretch of bayfront is the easiest way to fill an hour within walking distance of the gates.

Beating the Pasay bay-side crush

Traffic around SM Mall of Asia on a concert night is its own kind of local ritual: EDSA and Roxas Boulevard both feed into the same reclamation-area roads, and everyone converging on the arena hits that bottleneck at once.

A few habits locals and repeat concertgoers use here:

• Booking ride-hailing well before leaving, since driver availability drops sharply as the venue crowd builds.
• Walking in from a hotel along Macapagal Boulevard or within the Mall of Asia complex itself, which avoids the worst of the vehicle jam entirely.
• Waiting out the first 20 to 30 minutes after a show inside the mall’s air-conditioned corridors, since exiting is often slower than arriving and the initial surge to the exits is the worst of it.

Where to stay in Pasay for this show

Pasay has a dense cluster of hotels built specifically around the Mall of Asia and airport corridor, so lodging within a 10 to 15 minute walk or short ride of the arena is common rather than exceptional. Staying inside this pocket removes the traffic variable almost entirely on a show night.

Travelers flying in just for a concert also benefit from Pasay’s proximity to NAIA, since a same-day arrival with an afternoon buffer before doors is realistic when flights land on schedule. Manila traffic rarely rewards a tight connection.