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'It's Like a Water Park': BTS Battle Torrential Rain as $1bn World Tour Kicks Off
The 34-city run follows the group’s comeback album and sold-out presales, with analysts expecting up to 2.7 trillion won in revenue.
- On Thursday, K-pop boyband BTS kicked off their 'ARIRANG' world tour in Goyang, South Korea, marking their return to headline touring after a mandatory military service hiatus.
- All seven members completed mandatory military service by mid-2025, reuniting to record their fifth studio album 'ARIRANG', which topped the Billboard 200 chart for two weeks—a first for a K-pop group.
- Analysts project the tour, featuring a 360-degree in-the-round stage design, could generate as much as 2.7 trillion won in revenue across 34 cities and 82 concerts through March 2027.
- Tickets for the South Korean, North American, and European legs sold out within hours of sales, with BTS scheduled to visit Belgium, Britain, Germany, France, and Japan in coming months.
- The tour reflects K-pop's growing market share, representing 7.7% of the top 100 world concert tours in 2025, up from 4% in 2019, with BTS's final dates scheduled for next March.
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The band BTS begins in the South Korean city of Goyang its tour, a world tour that is positioned as the largest in the history of the K-pop.
BTS to kick off massive world tour in South Korea
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. 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. The opening concerts in Goyang sold out in pre-sale for…
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