BTS World Tour: Love Yourself is the third worldwide concert tour headlined by South Korean boy bandBTS to promote their Love Yourself series, including their Love Yourself: Her EP and Love Yourself: Tear studio album.[1] The tour will begin on August 25, 2018 in South Korea and is set to visit 7 countries thus far, including the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Netherlands and Germany.[2][3]
Background
On April 26, 2018, Big Hit released a trailer on their official YouTube channel announcing an upcoming world tour.[4] The video revealed an initial schedule of 22 concerts across 11 cities, spanning Seoul to California, Ontario to London, Amsterdam to Paris, with more dates and venues said to be awaiting confirmation.[5][6] The information was also posted on Big Hit's official website and across all their official social media platforms as well.[7] After news of the world tour broke, multiple hashtags trended worldwide on social media, including the tour's namesake tag – #LOVE_YOURSELF, highlighting the level of anticipation surrounding the event.[8]
Tickets went on sale May 5, 2018 for the Newark, Fort Worth, and Los Angeles shows and sold out in seconds.[9][10] Due to the high demand, an additional date was added to the Los Angeles lineup, with tickets going on sale May 9, 2018.[10] Tickets for the Oakland, Chicago, and Hamilton shows went on sale May 7, 2018.[9] Tickets for the Hamilton shows sold out in just over an hour, with Core Entertainment, organizers for the Ontario stop, revealing they would have sold out faster were it not for the strain put on Ticketmaster's online system due to the heavy influx of site traffic, the likes of which had not been seen for any ticketing held before.[11] All fourteen stops for the North-American leg of the tour were completely sold out.[12]
The London, Amsterdam, Berlin, and Paris stops will mark their biggest European headline shows to date.[13] Tickets are set to go on sale June 1.[14]
