K-pop band BTS announced Tuesday their long-awaited return to the stage with a world tour that will take them to 34 cities, including Madrid, Mexico City, Bogota, Lima, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile and Sao Paolo.
The tour will kick off on April 9 – 20 days after the release of their next album – in the South Korean city of Goyang and then head to Japan and from there to North America, where the band will play stadiums in Mexico City (May 7, 9 and 10), Los Angeles and Chicago, among other cities.
In Europe, the South Koreans will also perform in Paris, London and Madrid’s Riyadh Air Metropolitano on June 26 and 27; and in Latin America they will play concerts in Bogota (October 2 and 3), Lima (October 9 and 10), Santiago de Chile (October 16 and 17), Buenos Aires (October 23 and 24) and Sao Paolo (October 29, 30 and 31), in venues yet to be confirmed.
This is the first major tour, which will include 79 ‘shows’, for the line-up since their successful 2021-2022 ‘Permission to Dance on Stage’ tour which featured 12 performances.
And they do so after announcing the release of a new album, the septet’s first joint album since ‘Proof’ (2022), which will be released on March 20.
BTS and their long awaited comeback
The album, whose release date was revealed by agency BigHit Music in a statement without announcing further details, is one of the most anticipated albums of 2026 and marks the return to the stage as a full group after their last concert in Busan in 2022.
Amid great anticipation to see how the global phenomenon of their music will be reinvented, Hybe (BigHit Music’s parent company) CEO Lee Jae-sang said early last year that the artists would need time to rest and prepare materials after finishing military service.
The last member of the South Korean gang to complete his compulsory military service, which had resulted in the suspension of his activities, was Suga last June.
Since its debut in 2013, BTS has topped charts such as the Billboard Hot 100 with songs like ‘Dynamite’ or ‘Butter’ and has taken ‘k-pop’ to stadiums in the United States such as SoFi in Los Angeles and Allegiant in Las Vegas, in a tour that reached more than 4 million viewers through different platforms, reported Agencia EFE.
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