Billboard maintains one of the most-cited running lists of 2026 K-pop concerts, but as of mid-August 2026 the page redirects to a metered tollbit.billboard.com gateway that returns HTTP 402 — meaning the date table itself is no longer readable without payment . So here is the same information, rebuilt from open sources.
What's actually on the 2026 K-pop tour list?
At least a dozen K-pop acts are on active world tours as of August 15, 2026, led by BTS's Arirang World Tour — 88 concerts across 34 cities in 23 countries, running April 9, 2026 to March 16, 2027 . Running alongside it are TWICE, aespa, ENHYPEN, IVE, ITZY, BABYMONSTER, MAMAMOO, Stray Kids, ATEEZ and BLACKPINK, plus fall additions from Monsta X, KATSEYE, XG and LISA. This list cross-checks Soompi's 2026 K-Pop Tour Masterlist, first published November 12, 2025 and last updated August 11, 2026 , Music Times' rolling tracker, individual Wikipedia tour pages, and Korea Portal's ticketing roundup from March 9, 2026 .
Two scope notes matter when comparing trackers. Soompi's masterlist only includes events with at least one stop outside Korea, Japan or China, covering January through September 2026 , while Music Times' version is North-America-weighted and links inventory through Ticketmaster, StubHub and SeatGeek . Neither is complete on its own, which is why the sections below combine them.
BTS's Arirang World Tour: who, what, when, where
BTS's ARIRANG World Tour is the group's sixth concert tour and the largest they have staged, built around the 2026 album Arirang. The tracked itinerary runs to 88 concerts across 34 cities in 23 countries, from April 9, 2026 through March 16, 2027 . Every date uses a 360-degree in-the-round stage, which lifts sellable capacity at each stadium and is the structural reason the tour's per-city numbers run ahead of previous BTS runs.
The tour opened April 9, 11 and 12 at Goyang Stadium in South Korea, then moved to Tokyo Dome on April 17–18 . The first North American leg covered Raymond James Stadium in Tampa (April 25–26, 28), Sun Bowl Stadium in El Paso (May 2–3), Estadio GNP Seguros in Mexico City (May 7, 9–10), Stanford Stadium (May 16–17, 19) and Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas (May 23–24, 27–28), before a European stretch from June 26 to July 18 taking in Madrid, Brussels, London's Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Munich and Stade de France in Paris .
The second North American leg is in progress as of this week. It began August 1–2 at MetLife Stadium, continued August 5–6 at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough and August 10–11 at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, and hits AT&T Stadium in Arlington on August 15–16, Rogers Stadium in Toronto August 22–23, Chicago August 27–28, and SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on September 1, 2, 5 and 6 .
After Los Angeles, South America runs October 2–31 across Bogotá, Lima, Santiago and Buenos Aires. A late-Asia leg follows at Kaohsiung National Stadium (Nov. 19, 21, 22), Rajamangala National Stadium in Bangkok (Dec. 3, 5, 6), Kuala Lumpur (Dec. 12–13) and Singapore National Stadium (Dec. 17, 19), with Oceania — Marvel Stadium Melbourne and Accor Stadium Sydney — in February 2027 . Asia and Australia on-sale details were laid out separately by Billboard.
Reported Billboard Boxscore figures give a sense of scale: Tampa grossed $40.7 million from three shows with 194,000 attendance, Las Vegas $49.5 million from four shows and 246,000, Stanford $30.5 million from three shows and 152,000, and Madrid $25.1 million from two shows and 135,000 . Those per-city totals are why every other 2026 routing decision — which arenas are free, which weekends are contested — has been read against the Arirang calendar.
The other 2026 world tours running alongside BTS
At least fifteen other K-pop acts are running full-scale world tours in 2026, and several of them are stadium- or dome-level bookings in their own right. TWICE's THIS IS FOR tour covered North America and Europe from January through May, with Vancouver on January 9–10, Seattle January 13–14, Oakland January 17–18, a five-night Los Angeles run January 21–25, Dallas January 31–February 1, Washington D.C. February 13–14, a three-date Belmont Park stand February 18, 20 and 21, and Hamilton on March 6–7 . aespa ran two banners in parallel — SYNK: aeXIS LINE and SYNK: COMPLæXITY — across Asia-Pacific and the Americas from February, with the North American leg still ahead: September 18 at UBS Arena in Belmont Park, September 22 Washington D.C., September 24 Atlanta, September 26 Miami, September 29 Dallas, October 3 at Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, October 6 Oakland and October 9 Seattle .
ENHYPEN's BLOOD SAGA ran May through August across Dallas, San Diego, Tacoma, Oakland and Las Vegas — the group's fourth world tour and its first as a six-piece . BABYMONSTER's 춤 (Choom) World Tour opened June 26, 2026 at Jamsil Indoor Stadium in Seoul and is tracked at at least 29 performances across 18 cities through 2027, including the group's first solo dome shows — a two-night residency at Kyocera Dome Osaka in September — plus Manila, Bangkok, Singapore, Auckland, Melbourne, Sydney and Nagoya on August 16, with extra dates added in Singapore and Macau on demand .
The fall calendar adds a second wave :
- MAMAMOO — 4WARD reunion tour: August 12 UBS Arena, August 15 Wintrust Arena (Chicago), August 18 Dickies Arena (Fort Worth), August 21 H-E-B Center (Cedar Park), August 25 Los Angeles, August 27 San Jose, August 30 Kent, WA.
- KATSEYE — Wildworld 2026: October 13 to November 27 across North America, closing in Mexico City.
- XG — The Core: November 3–22, routing Oakland, Los Angeles, Chicago, Hamilton, Newark, Dallas and Mexico City.
- LISA — Viva La Lisa: a residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, on November 13–14 and November 27–28.
- Monsta X — X: NEXUS: October 3–24 across Virginia, New York, Boston, Illinois, Texas, Arizona, California and Washington.
Festivals absorbed the rest. KCON LA 2026 ran August 14–16 at Crypto.com Arena and the Los Angeles Convention Center, headlined by NCT 127, ZEROBASEONE and TOMORROW X TOGETHER , while BIGBANG — G-Dragon, Taeyang and Daesung — marked their 20th anniversary at Coachella on April 12 and 19, with Taemin the only other male K-pop soloist on the bill .
Why this matters: the densest K-pop touring calendar on record
The 2026 calendar matters because scale, not novelty, is the story: Soompi's masterlist — first published November 12, 2025 and last updated August 11, 2026 — tracks hundreds of individual stops between January and September 2026, and it counts only concerts, fan meetings, fan-cons and showcases with at least one date outside Korea, Japan or China . That filter excludes the domestic and Japan-only runs that make up much of the genre's volume, so the real global figure sits higher.
The economics moved with the volume. BTS's 360-degree in-the-round staging raises usable capacity at every stadium, and the reported Billboard Boxscore results show what that does to per-city grosses: $49.5 million and 246,000 attendance across four Las Vegas shows, $40.7 million and 194,000 over three Tampa nights, $30.5 million and 152,000 for three at Stanford Stadium, and $25.1 million from two Madrid dates . Those are the numbers promoters in other markets now benchmark against.
Three structural pressures follow from a stacked rather than staggered calendar:
- Simultaneous generations. BTS, TWICE, aespa, ENHYPEN, BABYMONSTER, MAMAMOO and KATSEYE are all on the road in the same year, so fan spending and arena availability get split across markets instead of rotating through them .
- Date collisions. August 15, 2026 alone holds BTS at AT&T Stadium, MAMAMOO at Wintrust Arena, ITZY in Macao and PSY's SUMMER SWAG in Busan .
- Fragmented sourcing. Billboard's tracker now redirects to a metered gateway returning HTTP 402 , pushing fans toward aggregators of varying update cadence — where superseded dates circulate as current.
The practical defense is to verify any date against the venue's own event page before booking travel, such as AT&T Stadium's BTS World Tour listing or Gillette Stadium's, rather than a screenshot of a tracker.
Tickets and fan logistics: where to actually buy
Ticketmaster is the official primary seller for most 2026 K-pop dates in the United States and Canada, including BTS, TWICE and NMIXX, with artist-specific pages indexed in Korea Portal's March 9, 2026 ticketing roundup . Outside North America the sellers change: Frontier Touring handled ATEEZ's Australian dates, and NOL Universe covered SEVENTEEN's Incheon encore on April 4–5 .
Timing matters more than platform choice. Weverse and fan-club presales typically open two to three weeks ahead of general onsale, and BTS stadium dates have sold out at face value within minutes, pushing remaining inventory to Ticketmaster Verified Resale, StubHub, SeatGeek and Vivid Seats . If you are buying resale, cross-check the listing's date and venue against the artist's official tour page or the venue's own listing first — mismatched dates are the most common sign of a stale or fraudulent listing.
- US / Canada: Ticketmaster primary; Verified Resale for sold-out stadium dates.
- Australia: Frontier Touring (ATEEZ).
- Korea: NOL Universe (SEVENTEEN Incheon encore).
- Presale window: Weverse / fan-club, roughly 2–3 weeks before general onsale.
- Verification: Korea Portal's per-artist official links, plus the tracked Arirang itinerary for date changes.
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The concrete takeaway: buy from the primary seller during the presale window, and treat every other source — aggregator table, resale listing, screenshot — as a claim to verify against the venue's own event page before you book flights.
Frequently asked questions
Why is Billboard's K-pop tour tracker paywalled?
Billboard's "K-Pop Concerts 2026: A Full List of Artists, Shows and Ticket Info" page now issues a 307 redirect to a metered tollbit.billboard.com gateway that returns HTTP 402 (Payment Required) . In practice that means the date table is no longer freely readable for many visitors and automated readers: the request never reaches the article, it stops at a metering layer that asks for payment or a subscription first. The tour data itself is not wrong or withdrawn — it is simply gated. Readers who hit the paywall can cross-check the same tours against open trackers listed below.
What is the biggest K-pop world tour of 2026?
BTS's WORLD TOUR 'ARIRANG' is the largest, and the biggest of the group's career. The tracked itinerary runs to 88 concerts across 34 cities in 23 countries, from April 9, 2026 at Goyang Stadium in South Korea through March 16, 2027 . It supports the 2026 album Arirang and uses a 360-degree in-the-round stage that raises capacity at each venue. Reported Billboard Boxscore figures include $49.5M from four Las Vegas shows (246,000 attendance) and $40.7M from three Tampa shows (194,000) .
Where can I find verified 2026 K-pop tour dates instead?
Four open sources cover most of the same ground. Soompi's "2026 K-Pop Tour Masterlist," first published November 12, 2025 and last updated August 11, 2026, covers January through September 2026 but only includes runs with at least one stop outside Korea, Japan or China . Music Times' rolling tracker is North-America-weighted and lists Ticketmaster, StubHub and SeatGeek links. Wikipedia maintains per-tour pages such as Arirang World Tour and BABYMONSTER's Choom World Tour, and Korea Portal's March 9, 2026 roundup is the most useful for official ticketing URLs. Cross-check any single date against at least two of them.
How do I buy official tickets for these tours?
Ticketmaster is the official primary seller for most US and Canada dates, including BTS, TWICE and NMIXX artist pages . Outside North America the seller changes: Frontier Touring handled ATEEZ's Australian dates, and NOL Universe sold SEVENTEEN's Incheon encore on April 4–5 . Weverse and fan-club presales usually open two to three weeks before general onsale, which is the realistic window for face-value seats — BTS stadium dates have sold out at face value within minutes, sending remaining inventory to Ticketmaster Verified Resale, StubHub, SeatGeek and Vivid Seats . Always confirm the seller on the venue's own event page, such as AT&T Stadium's BTS listing.
Are there K-pop festival dates in 2026 besides world tours?
Yes — several, and they cluster in the same weeks as the tours. KCON LA 2026 ran August 14–16 at Crypto.com Arena and the Los Angeles Convention Center, headlined by NCT 127, ZEROBASEONE and TOMORROW X TOGETHER . Summer Sonic 2026 ran the same weekend across Tokyo and Osaka, and PSY's SUMMER SWAG played Busan on August 15–16 . Earlier in the year, BIGBANG's G-Dragon, Taeyang and Daesung marked the group's 20th anniversary at Coachella on April 12 and 19, with Taemin the only other male K-pop soloist billed .
Last updated: 2026-08-15. Tour dates and ticketing details were cross-checked against Soompi, Music Times, Wikipedia, Korea Portal and venue event pages on this date; schedules change, so confirm with the primary seller before booking travel.
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