Tickets for BTS concert in New York are already sold out
K-pop sensation’s tour of 16 countries starts in Seoul this Saturday, with tickets for their scheduled stop at a New York stadium selling out as soon as sales began
Tickets for K-pop boy band BTS’s first concert in a US stadium sold out as soon as sales began, the group’s management agency said on Saturday.
The seven-member K-pop sensation will perform at New York City’s Citi Field Stadium on October 6 as part of its world tour of 16 countries, including Canada, Britain, Germany and France. The band will begin the tour with local concerts in Seoul slated for August 25-26.
BTS will become the first South Korean singers to hold a solo concert at the home ballpark of the New York Mets.
Also as of Saturday, the music video for BTS’s Fire had been watched over 414 million times on YouTube, becoming the band’s second video to reach the 400 million-view milestone. The video was uploaded on May 1, 2016.
Fire is the lead track off BTS’s “Epilogue: Young Forever” album. It ranked third on YouTube’s 2016 list of the world’s most-viewed K-pop music videos.
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This article originally appeared on The Korea Times.