When Jimmy Buffett announced on the Australian Today Show that he’s coming to Sydney, Australia in January, entertainment editor Richard Wilkins said that a concert was also rumored for New Zealand.

In an interview with Michael Chugg of Chugg Entertainment, he reveals a little more info about this show:

“We’ve got a good year ahead,” Chugg enthuses. “We’ve already announced The Doobie Brothers and Santana and we’ve got more to come. We’re always working on things. We’re going to do Jimmy Buffett – but I haven’t got a venue organised for Auckland yet. But you can tell people he’s coming. We’ll have him here in January. Get a bit of hype going for that if you like…”

Buffett World received many e-mails from folks that got shut out trying to buy tickets for the Sydney shows. Hopefully some of you can make the trek across the Tasman Sea to Auckland for this show.

(hat tip Melissa)

Jimmy Buffett announced today that he’ll be returning to Paris again in 2011.

He’ll take his show to The Olympia on Monday, September 26th!

Tickets go on sale Wednesday, December 15th through gdp.fr.

Australian fans have been waiting for over 20 years, but the wait will soon be over. Jimmy Buffett appeared on the Australian Today Show today and announced that he’ll perform at the Sydney Opera House on January 23rd and 24th.

At the end of the recorded message, Jimmy strummed a few lines of Men at Work’s “Land Down Under.”

Tickets go on sale Friday, December 17th at 9 am local. Prices are $169.00 and $119.00. Find out how to gain access to presale tickets here.

Richard Wilkins, entertainment editor for the Today Show, said Jimmy will also play a show in New Zealand while down under.

Update: Video of Jimmy’s announcement below (hat tip @bigbadbyrnes). View a high quality video of the announcement here:

Richard Wilkins, entertainment editor for the Today Show in Australia, tweeted us tonight to let us now that the details will finally be revealed on tomorrow’s show for Jimmy Buffett’s concert in January.

The Today Show allows you to watch live online. So if you’re not in Australia, or you’re on your computer, go to today.ninemsn.com.au and click on Live Online under Watch TODAY Your Way.

For those of you in the US, 7:40 am Sydney time corresponds to 3:40 pm ET.

After “leaking” the story last week, which we reported on here, Australian Today Show entertainment editor Richard Wilkens reiterated on the air this morning that Jimmy Buffett “is coming, definitely, for one show in Sydney in January.”

He said that he hopes to provide more details in the coming days.

As soon as we get any more info on the date or ticket sales, we’ll post right away. If you hear anything, please e-mail us.