BTS. (courtesy of BigHit Music)
BTS’ long-awaited world tour will kick off in April at Goyang Stadium in South Korea.
BigHit Music, the group’s company, revealed the official poster for the BTS official world tour schedule on Wednesday.
The 2026 tour is the group’s first world tour of this scale since its “Permission to Dance on Stage” tour, which wrapped up in Las Vegas in 2022. Tour dates launched up to now present that the group will carry out in 79 exhibits in 34 completely different cities in South Korea, North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia and different areas.
BigHit Music billed the tour because the “largest world Okay-pop tour of all time.” The dates for extra exhibits in Japan and the Center East shall be confirmed within the close to future.
The tour will kick off in South Korea, with the group acting on April 9, 11, and 12 at Goyang Stadium, adopted by performances in Busan on June 12-13. June 13 marks the anniversary of BTS’ debut in 2013.
Poster for the upcoming BTS world tour. (courtesy of BigHit Music)
The group will begin the North America leg of its tour in Tampa, Florida, on April 25-26, shifting on to carry out 28 exhibits in 12 cities. BTS would be the first Okay-pop artists to carry out within the Solar Bowl Stadium in El Paso, Texas, and the Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
BigHit famous that BTS may have the glory of being solely the second group, after Coldplay, to headline the Stanford Stadium in California twice.
In June and July, the group will cross the pond and embark on the European leg of their world tour, with 10 dates in 5 cities, together with London and Paris. BTS may even play their first solo exhibits in Madrid and Brussels.
In South America, the group can pay visits to 5 cities, together with Sao Paolo in Brazil and Buenos Aires in Argentina, with dates for the Center East to be confirmed at a later date.
The group may even be switching up its manufacturing to characteristic a “a 360-degree, in-the-round stage design,” to permit for a extra immersive viewers expertise.
Forward of their world tour, BTS is about to launch their new 14-track studio album on March 20. The discharge of this fifth album will mark their comeback after a three-year and nine-month hiatus as a seven-piece group.
By Lee Jung-kook, workers reporter
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