{"id":146745,"date":"2026-09-08T03:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T03:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/146745\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T03:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T03:34:15","slug":"bts-sets-sofi-stadium-attendance-record-on-arirang-north-american-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/146745\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS sets SoFi Stadium attendance record on Arirang North American tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

BTS drew 1.9 million fans across 31 sold-out North American shows, including a record 496,000 cumulative attendees at SoFi Stadium.<\/p>\n

\n Boy band BTS performs during “Arirang” world tour at SoFi Stadium in California in early September.
\n BIGHIT MUSIC\n <\/p>\n

K-pop megaband BTS closed out its North American leg of its \u201cArirang\u201d world tour on Sunday with a record-setting milestone, its agency BigHit Music said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The group drew 1.9 million concertgoers across 31 sold-out shows at 12 stops in Canada, Mexico and the United States. The North American leg began on April 25.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt still feels unbelievable that we have arrived at our final stop \u2014 Los Angeles \u2014 because kick-off in Tampa feels like it happened yesterday,\u201d BTS said during its Los Angeles concert. \u201cTime flew by because we were happy. We will cherish every moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Crowds<\/p>\n

\n Crowds fill SoFi Stadium in California during “Arirang” world tour by boy band BTS in early September.
\n BIGHIT MUSIC\n <\/p>\n

A total of 282,000 spectators packed the SoFi Stadium for four Los Angeles shows on Sept. 1, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n

Combined with its four \u201cBTS Permission to Dance On Stage \u2013 LA\u201d (2021) performances, the group has drawn a cumulative 496,000 concertgoers at the venue. The attendance is the highest ever recorded for any group since the stadium opened.<\/p>\n

The latest four Los Angeles concerts were live-streamed on fan community platform Weverse in 177 regions worldwide.<\/p>\n

\"Boy<\/p>\n

\n Boy band BTS performs during “Arirang” world tour at SoFi Stadium in California in early September.
\n BIGHIT MUSIC\n <\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Times commented that Tuesday\u2019s performance \u201cconvincingly framed BTS as a world-class pop act\u201d that should also be viewed as a \u201ctransitional moment for K-pop more broadly.\u201d<\/p>\n

BTS will head to South America. Kicking off the regional leg with 2 shows in Bogota, Colombia, on Oct. 2, the group will deliver three shows in Lima, Peru; in Santiago, Chile; Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Sao Paulo, Brazil. The tour will mark the group\u2019s first visit to Colombia, Peru and Argentina as a full lineup.<\/p>\n

\"Boy<\/p>\n

\n Boy band BTS performs during “Arirang” world tour at SoFi Stadium in California in early September.
\n BIGHIT MUSIC\n <\/p>\n

BY LEE SOO-JUNG [lee.soojung1@joongang.co.kr]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BTS drew 1.9 million fans across 31 sold-out North American shows, including a record 496,000 cumulative attendees at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[195],"class_list":["post-146745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-korea","tag-k-pop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}