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Culture January 13, 2026

BTS returns for world tour after 4 years: See how to get tickets

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BTS is about to bring the fire and set the night alight once again.

The superstar K-pop group, known for songs like "Dynamite," "Butter," and more, is returning for a world tour this year, announcing multiple dates and tour stops in a press release Tuesday.

RM, Jin, SUGA, j-hope, Jimin, V and Jung Kook will reunite onstage on April 9, kicking off their world tour with a trio of shows in Goyang, South Korea. They will then make their way to Tokyo before hitting several cities across North America.

For the first North American leg of the tour, U.S. shows will begin in Tampa, Florida, on April 25-26. The tour will also make stops in El Paso, Texas; Mexico City; and Stanford, California; before ending in Las Vegas, with shows on May 23-24 and May 27.

The group then heads overseas with a stop in Busan, South Korea, in June, before embarking on the European leg of their world tour, which kicks off in Madrid, Spain, on June 26-27.

The European leg also includes stops in Brussels, London, Munich and Paris.

BTS will return back to U.S. in August for their second North American tour leg, with stops in East Rutherford, New Jersey; Baltimore; Toronto; and Los Angeles.

For BTS fans in South America, the group will make stops in Colombia, Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Brazil starting in October, before making their way back to Asia once again in November, with stops in Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore.

Their last tour stop of 2026 will be in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Dec. 26-27.

BTS will pick things up again in February 2027 for the last stops of their world tour. They'll kick things off in Melbourne, Australia, and make their way to Sydney, before heading to Hong Kong, wrapping things up in Manila, Philippines, on March 13-14.

Venues have not yet been announced, and the press release stated that additional dates are expected to come later.

Tour attendees can expect to see the group performing on a 360-degree, in-the-round stage, allowing for increased capacity in each venue, according to the press release.

Tickets for BTS ARMY members go on sale Jan. 22 and Jan. 23 local time, followed by general sales beginning Jan. 24 local time worldwide.

Visit BTSWORLDTOUROFFICIAL.COM and LiveNation.com for more details.

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.

In July 2025, the K-pop stars announced that they would release a new album. BTS' record label, Big Hit Music, announced earlier this month that the group will release the new album -- their fifth studio project -- on March 20.

It will mark BTS' first group album in nearly four years, according to a press release.

The upcoming album will have 14 tracks and will be "packed with honest stories that BTS wants to share with ARMY, who have been waiting for their pm comeback as a whole group," the press release stated.

"Filled with the music that's most true to BTS, the album is their heartfelt way of saying thank you to ARMY, who have been there this whole time," they added.

Pre-orders for the upcoming album will begin Friday, Jan. 16.