Advance ticket sales for K-pop band BTS’ film tour documentary pass 100,000
‘Burn the Stage’, which is released in cinemas worldwide from Thursday, follows the seven-member group’s rise to global fame during its 2017 concerts
More than 100,000 tickets have been sold in advance for a forthcoming documentary about K-pop boy band BTS' rise to global fame, data showed on Sunday.
The seven-member group BTS is enjoying huge global success after topping the US Billboard album chart twice this year.
It has also given a series of sell-out concerts in North America and Europe and is now in Japan, where it will give a number performance, starting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
The Korean Film Council data on Sunday revealed that the documentary, Burn the Stage, set to be released on Thursday, was ranked No 1 on the chart based on ticket reservation rate, which is at 26.8 per cent.
This was followed by Bohemian Rhapsody, a drama biography about British rock group Queen and its lead singer, Freddie Mercury, with 21 per cent, and the fantasy Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, starring Johnny Depp, with 20.4 per cent.
The documentary features the group’s “2017 BTS Live Trilogy Episode III: The Wings Tour”, which saw the band perform concerts to 550,000 fans in 19 global cities during a 300-day journey.
The film was previously released on YouTube Premium, a paid streaming subscription service by YouTube, in a series of eight episodes from March to May.