The South Korean superstars took over Vegas with an appearance at the AMAs amid their four-night stint at Allegiant Stadium<\/p>\n
\n\tBTS<\/a> made a show-stopping appearance in Las Vegas, delivering a performance of Arirang track \u201cHooligan\u201d for the 2026 American Music Awards<\/a>. The set seemed to have been filmed at their Arirang World Tour at Allegiant Stadium before the awards ceremony.<\/p>\n \n\tThe septet appeared onstage bathed in red light and dressed top to bottom in slick black outfits while flanked by masked backup dancers. In a moody backdrop echoing the track\u2019s music video, the group brought their slick track to the thousands of screaming fans.<\/p>\n \n\tThe AMAs announced that the South Korean superstars would be on the bill for the 52nd AMAs just five days before<\/a> the awards show. The group are already in Sin City, having kicked off their four-night stand at Vegas\u2019 Allegiant Stadium on Saturday, May 23. (The run will continue next week with shows on May 27 and 28.)<\/p>\n \n\tBTS are also nominated for three awards this year, including the AMA\u2019s marquee prize, Artist of the Year. The group is also nominated for Best Male K-Pop Artist, and their single \u201cSwim\u201d<\/a> is up for Song of the Summer. <\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\tBTS have been incredibly busy since their long-awaited return<\/a> after a multiyear hiatus as all seven completed their mandatory military service in South Korea and embarked on solo careers. The recent Rolling Stone cover stars dropped their comeback album, Arirang<\/a>, in March, and they\u2019ll spend much of the rest of the year touring the globe. (Another set of North American dates is scheduled to kick off in August.)<\/p>\n \n\tIn a recent Rolling Stone<\/a> cover story<\/a>, BTS\u2019 RM described the creative mandate he put to the group as they prepared for their return. \u201cI\u2019ve been saying to the members, \u2018If we don\u2019t \u00adchallenge anymore, then I think there\u2019s no reason that we should keep doing this as a team,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cWe have to show the world that we are still ongoing and still exploring. It\u2019s so complicated sometimes. But still, I think we have to push it to the edge even more, even more, and it\u2019s still not enough.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The South Korean superstars took over Vegas with an appearance at the AMAs amid their four-night stint at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49289,246423,21765,49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-694203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-american-music-awards","tag-american-music-awards-2026","tag-bts","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}