BTS Keeps Adding Shows. The Tour Is Now 88 Dates — and Still Growing.
The Arirang World Tour launched on January 13 with 79 shows. It is now 88. The gap closed city by city, one overflow crowd at a time.
On June 16, BigHit Music announced two additions to the schedule via Weverse: a third night in Jakarta, Indonesia on December 29 at Gelora Bung Karno Main Stadium, and a third night in Bulacan, Philippines on March 16, 2027 at Philippine Sports Stadium. Both cities had already sold out their original two-night runs. The pattern behind those additions is by now familiar. BTS has added extra shows in Tampa, Stanford, and Las Vegas in the US; Lima, Santiago, and Buenos Aires in South America; and Melbourne in Australia - all since the tour opened in Goyang on April 9.
The total now stands at 88 performances across 34 cities and 23 countries, which BigHit has confirmed is the largest single tour ever staged by a K-pop act. The breakdown: 13 shows in East Asia, 31 in North America, 10 in Europe, 14 in South America, 15 in Southeast Asia, and 5 in Oceania. Japan and the Middle East legs have yet to be announced, and additional 2027 dates are expected.
The European leg is currently underway. BTS opened in Madrid on June 26 and 27 at the Riyadh Air Metropolitano, then moves to Brussels, London, Munich, and Paris through mid-July. All 10 European shows sold out.
Three weeks after the Paris dates close, BTS takes the stage at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey - not for the Arirang tour, but for the halftime show of the 2026 FIFA World Cup Final on July 19. FIFA and Global Citizen confirmed in May that BTS will co-headline the first-ever World Cup Final halftime show alongside Madonna and Shakira, with the performance curated by Coldplay's Chris Martin. It will be the first time all seven members perform together at a World Cup; Jungkook appeared solo at the 2022 Qatar tournament.
The North American leg of the Arirang tour then resumes at MetLife Stadium on August 1 and 2 - the same stadium, three weeks later.
One market conspicuously absent from all of it: India. With a population of 1.4 billion and a fanbase that has driven consistent social media engagement for years, India has not received a single Arirang tour date. A planned Mumbai stop in 2020 was canceled due to the pandemic and was never rescheduled. BigHit has not commented on the omission. Indian fans have been booking travel to Thailand and Indonesia instead. Additional 2027 dates, when announced, will determine whether that changes.
