{"id":251010,"date":"2026-04-29T12:52:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T12:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/251010\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T12:52:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T12:52:21","slug":"bts-begins-north-america-tour-in-tampa-drawing-190000-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/251010\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS begins North America tour in Tampa, drawing 190,000 fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/8a86718d-7a80-4cf5-a4e6-b5c4a954b0c6.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1281; width: 100%\" alt=\"K-pop group BTS performs at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, Tuesday (local time). Courtesy of BigHit Music\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>K-pop group BTS performs at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, Tuesday (local time). Courtesy of BigHit Music<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">K-pop supergroup BTS drew about 190,000 fans over three days as it kicked off the North American leg of its &#8220;Arirang&#8221; world tour in Tampa, Florida, the group&#8217;s agency said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The group performed at Raymond James Stadium on Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday (local time) as part of the North American leg, delivering tracks from its latest studio album, &#8220;Arirang,&#8221; and past hits, such as &#8220;MIC Drop&#8221; and &#8220;Fake Love,&#8221; BigHit Music said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">BTS began the world tour with three-night concerts in the Korean city of Goyang earlier this month. The tour spans a total of 85 shows across 34 cities, making it the largest tour ever undertaken by a K-pop artist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">After Tampa, the seven-member group will continue the tour on May 2\u20133 at Sun Bowl Stadium in El Paso, Texas, becoming the first Korean act to hold a concert at the venue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The North American leg involves 31 shows across 12 cities, including Mexico City, Stanford and Las Vegas, with all dates sold out, according to the agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"K-pop group BTS performs at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, Tuesday (local time). Courtesy of BigHit Music&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-251010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}