J-Hope of BTS will hold a concert on his own in Seoul on Feb. 28 and March 1-2, according to local media reports Thursday.
The announcement for the solo show was uploaded on a Korean ticket seller on the day but was taken down soon after, likely for making corrections.
It will be the first concert from a member of the septet which is expected to make a full-group return within this year after everyone completes serving their military duty.
J-Hope was discharged in October last year and wrote on a fan communication platform last week that it will be a very important year for him.
He is poised to launch solo international tour Hope On The Stage as well. According to American ticket sales company Ticketmaster, he will visit five cities in the US from mid-March to early April for nine concerts.
TXT adds Japan, Macao to ongoing world tour
Tomorrow X Together expanded its ongoing tour to include five cities in Japan as well as Macao, according to label Big Hit Music Thursday.
The band will head to Kanagawa, Japan on March 12 for the Japanese leg of tour Act : Promise hopping around six venues in the country for 12 live shows until May 25. In Macao, it will go live May 10-11.
In March, the five members will embark on their first European tour, hopping around Barcelona, Spain, London, Berlin, Paris and Amsterdam. A three-date concert in Seoul will precede, running March 7-9.
They are resuming the tour that lasted until last month which took them to four major domes in Japan and two stadiums in North America as well as Madison Square Garden in New York.
aespa to host encore concert in Seoul in March
An encore gig from aespa will be held in Seoul March 15-16, announced label SM Entertainment Thursday.
The quartet is putting together an even better set list that includes songs from fifth EP “Whiplash” for the live show that will conclude its tour Synk: Parallel Line.
The tour began in June last year and will span across 28 cities in 18 countries. The group is set to resume it in Seattle, US on Jan. 28 where the North American leg will begin. After touring the region, the foursome will head to Europe before returning to Seoul for the encore show.
Meanwhile, the music video for the titular track for the fifth EP logged 100 million views on YouTube as of Tuesday. The six-track mini album came out in October and became aespa’s fifth million-seller.
Seventeen’s BSS sweeps chart with 2nd single
Seventeen subunit BSS landed atop iTunes Top Songs Chart in eight regions with “CBZ (Prime Time),” said agency Pledis Entertainment Thursday.
The song fronts “Teleparty,” the scond single album from the trio – of Seungkwan, Dogyeom and Hoshi – and also topped real-time music charts at home. Music video for the upbeat tune generated over 9 million hits on YouTube in less than 24 hours.
All three songs made Melon’s Top 100 while the album sold over 425,000 copies on the day of release. The album comes about two years since the previous single “Second Wind” which set a first-week sales record for a K-pop subuit at 610,000 units.
In the meantime, Seventeen will begin touring Asia from Jan. 18, starting in Bulacan, Philippines. The band will perform twice each in Bulacan, Singapore, Jakarta and Bangkok for tour Right Here.
