SEOUL, April 9 (Reuters) – Kpop supergroup BTS launches its global concert tour on Thursday in the South Korean city of Goyang, after the group’s comeback single topped rankings worldwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n BTS’s World Tour ‘ARIRANG’ officially starts with three nights in Goyang, on April 9, 11 and 12, and will take in 34 cities across the world in a new record for the most tour dates by a Kpop artist.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n The opening concerts in Goyang sold out in pre-sale for all three nights, and tickets to concerts in South Korea, North America, and Europe were sold out within a few hours of the pre-sale and general sale, according to BTS’ management agency.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n The group went on hiatus in 2022 and all seven members completed mandatory South Korean military service by mid-2025, before getting together to record their fifth studio album “ARIRANG”.<\/p>\n
\n The album, released in March, topped the Billboard 200 chart for two weeks, a first for a Kpop group or artist. Lead single “Swim” made its debut at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, before falling to No. 2 in its second week.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n Analysts said the concert tour, which will feature a 360-degree in-the-round stage design, is expected to bring in blockbuster revenues, with some estimates pointing to total tour earnings of as much as 2.7 trillion won ($1.81 billion), not including fans’ spending outside the concerts when visiting cities for the show.\u00a0<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Daewoung Kim, Sebin Choi and Joyce Lee; Editing by Ed Davies and Kate Mayberry)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEOUL, April 9 (Reuters) – Kpop supergroup BTS launches its global concert tour on Thursday in the South…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,123,278],"class_list":["post-389177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-markets","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}