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,” is booked to headline a concert at Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay on October 14, 2026. This is a single-city Manila date on his touring calendar, not a festival slot, so expect 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, you can arrive early, eat, and walk straight into the queue without needing 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; expect heavy traffic and slow pickup zones on show nights, so build in extra time.
• 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, so follow the arena signage rather than mall directories once you’re inside the complex.

Arrive well before doors open if you’re on general admission floor tickets; the queue for floor entry typically forms outside the arena’s main gates hours ahead on big shows.

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.

Do not rely on resale listings or unofficial social media links for this show. Confirm timing and tickets on the official site, and cross-check with the venue’s own channels before entering payment details anywhere.

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 grabbing 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 the pre-show crowd drifts to catch sunset before heading into the arena. If your show starts in the evening, this stretch of bayfront is the easiest way to fill an hour without leaving 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:

• Book ride-hailing well before you actually need to leave, since driver availability drops sharply as the venue crowd builds.
• If staying nearby, walking in from a hotel along Macapagal Boulevard or within the Mall of Asia complex itself avoids the worst of the vehicle jam entirely.
• Exiting after the show is often slower than arriving; many people wait out the first 20 to 30 minutes inside the mall’s air-conditioned corridors rather than fighting the initial crowd surge to the exits.

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 the night itself.

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