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BTS Kicks Off European Leg of ARIRANG Tour With Highly Anticipated Debut in Spain: ‘Let’s Go Crazy!’

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Madrid was the starting point for the European leg of the BTS ARIRANG World Tour, but it also marked the end of a long wait for thousands of Spanish fans. More than 66,000 people, according to sources from Atlético de Madrid, attended the group’s first of two shows at the Riyadh Air Metropolitano on Friday (June 26). Before the night even started, thousands of light sticks lit up the stands of a stadium completely energized, a vibe that carrie…

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BTS, the most international band of the K-pop, arrives for the first time in Spain to start this Friday, June 26, his European tour with two concerts in the Metropolitan stadium of Madrid.

·Guayaquil, Ecuador
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I remember that historic video of the Beatles in which they are giving a concert and they are not heard. John Lennon seems to shout, he is disparaged, but his voice covers the fervor of a mass of teenage girls on the verge of collapse. The image is in black and white, before the MTV, the nets, the reels and the K-Pop , that genre that is the pop of Los Angeles with Korean aesthetics. BTS is the most representative band of style, global and cult.…

·Spain
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Already in the morning they were seen on line 7 of the metro, which connects with the Metropolitan stadium, teenagers dressed –also disguised, of course – for the occasion: the first of the two concerts that BTS, the most important K-pop band of the moment, gave yesterday in Madrid, the only stop in Spain of its long world tour.Continue reading...

·Granada, Spain
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Since last spring, K-pop band BTS has reunited and is on the world tour “Arirang.” The group will perform two concerts in Madrid on Friday and Saturday – the first shows

·Stockholm, Sweden
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“Listening to them is better than botox,” says Sami, 54, manager of a large BTS fan club in Spain (ARMY SPAIN, 29,500 followers on Instagram): “His music and lyrics are a chute of energy and desire to live.” The South Korean boy band came to life almost a decade ago, like that of many adult fans of the group, through the K-drama, Korean series and soap operas that have become a global success thanks to audiovisual platforms. Continue reading

·Spain
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El Pais broke the news in Spain on Friday, June 26, 2026.
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