K-pop heartthrobs BTS to kick off world tour
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The BTS comeback is upon us. The K-pop septet has announced a 2026 and 2027 world tour. It will kick off in South Korea in April and runs through March 2027 with over 70 dates across Asia, North America,
The K-pop supergroup, who finally reunited as seven members last year following the completion of their mandatory military service, will play 79 shows around the world, including four stops at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.
Hope, RM, Jimin, V and Jung Kook are back, and they may be coming to a city near you very soon. What to know about BTS' 2026 world tour.
BTS' world tour comes four years after the group announced on social media that they were planning to take an " extended period of rest " in December 2021. The group has been on hiatus since 2022, which allowed all seven members to serve their mandatory military service in South Korea.
BTS will embark on a world tour in 2026 and 2027 marking their official return to live music following an extensive hiatus.
The tour will be one of the largest the group will have completed to date and one of the biggest global K-pop tours of all time.
The presale dates for all the North American shows are on Jan. 22 — with the exception of the third and fourth L.A. shows, which have their presale on Jan. 23. (Presale information can be found here .) The general on-sale is Jan. 24.
According to stats shared by Spotify, global streams of their music dropped by 24% in 2023, and 30% in 2024. They remained steady in 2025, and the streaming platform says it expects numbers to explode in 2026. But what the numbers don't show is the way BTS's absence due to military service was carefully managed.
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K-pop royalty BTS is returning to the San Francisco Bay Area. The boy band announced Tuesday that they are performing at Stanford Stadium for back-to-back dates in May. BTS is kicking off its 2026 and 2027 world tour on April 9 in Goyang,