When Did Yeonjun Perform on Good Morning America?
YEONJUN's summer in New York ended with a sunrise crowd in Central Park and a live network camera pointed at him.
YEONJUN performed on ABC's "Good Morning America" Summer Concert Series on Aug. 5, 2026, outdoors in Central Park, inside the show's live 7:00–9:00 a.m. EDT broadcast . He is the second Korean solo act booked for the franchise, after BTS's Jungkook in July 2023 .source
- Date and venue: Aug. 5, 2026, Central Park (Rumsey Playfield/SummerStage)
- Broadcast: live within GMA's 7–9 a.m. EDT window, sponsored by Norwegian Cruise Line, promoted as #YEONJUNonGMA
- Timing: four weeks after his second solo EP, NO LABELS: PART 02, released July 10, 2026
Why ABC's Own Schedule Listed Two Different Dates
The confusion traces to two official ABC publications that disagreed. ABC's original 2026 Summer Concert Series lineup page, published July 7, 2026, slotted YEONJUN on Aug. 7 . Updated Good Morning America and ABC News pages published July 23, 2026 moved him to Aug. 5, and event-day reporting confirms Aug. 5 as the date he actually performed .
Korean coverage propagated the earlier date. Korea JoongAng Daily reported Aug. 7 on July 2, citing BigHit Music, and Yonhap carried the same date on July 10 . Both predate ABC's July 23 revision, which is why fan aggregators and calendar posts circulating in mid-July still show the wrong day.source
Here is how the two schedules line up:
- July 7, 2026 (ABC.com lineup page): Keith Urban July 10, Coco Jones July 24, Dan + Shay July 31, YEONJUN and Sublime Aug. 14 — with YEONJUN's slot dated Aug. 7 .
- July 23, 2026 (GMA + ABC News video page): YEONJUN in Central Park on Aug. 5; Sublime remains Aug. 14 in Central Park .
- Aug. 5, 2026 (event day): UPI filed its photo and news package under Aug. 5, and ABC's owned New York station datelined its on-the-ground story "Wednesday" — Aug. 5, 2026 was a Wednesday .
Venue framing drifted the same way. Some pre-announcements pointed to GMA's downtown New York studio, while the later official pages and every event-day report place the set outdoors in Central Park, the series' usual home at Rumsey Playfield .
No outlet has published a reason for the schedule change, and neither ABC nor BIGHIT MUSIC issued a correction notice explaining it. Production scheduling, weather planning, and artist routing are all plausible, but none are documented — so the accurate reading is that the date moved and the cause remains unreported.
What Yeonjun Performed in Central Park
YEONJUN played a four-song set in Central Park, three of them on air and one after the cameras stopped. He opened with "Vanilla," the opening track of his second EP NO LABELS: PART 02, then performed "Ice Cream" and "Talk to You" inside the broadcast window, and closed with "GGUM" off-camera once the Good Morning America segment ended .source
The staging built up as the set went on. He started alone, was joined mid-set by four male backup dancers dressed in all black, and was later joined by two female dancers . For wardrobe, reporting described his look as Miu Miu's first custom menswear piece — a first for the house rather than a styling note .
He also bracketed the performance with two on-air talk spots. He spoke with GMA weather anchor Sam Champion before the set, then returned afterward with Champion and co-host Lara Spencer, telling them that PART 02 is "a lot more natural and unfiltered" than its predecessor and that he wanted to show a different side of himself .
The set as reported, in order:
- "Vanilla" — opening track of NO LABELS: PART 02, performed first, on air.
- "Ice Cream" — the EP's lead single, on air.
- "Talk to You" — on air.
- "GGUM" — performed for the crowd after the broadcast segment ended, off-camera.
One sourcing caveat is worth stating plainly. This setlist comes from trade and local press — Billboard's post-performance write-up and amNY's on-site report — rather than an ABC performance page. A separate review of indexed ABC and Good Morning America pages turned up no archived official clip or track-by-track listing for the segment. The two press accounts agree with each other, and UPI's same-day photo package places him on the Central Park stage, but fans looking for a broadcaster-hosted replay to verify song order will not find one indexed.
Yeonjun vs. Jungkook: K-pop's Two GMA Solo Slots
Yeonjun's Central Park set made him the second K-pop soloist ever booked for ABC's Good Morning America Summer Concert Series, after BTS's Jungkook played the franchise in July 2023 . That is a three-year gap between the only two solo slots the series has given Korean acts, and the two bookings sat at similar points in their respective release cycles.
Both artists arrived at GMA mid-promotion rather than as a one-off guest appearance. Yeonjun's Aug. 5, 2026 slot fell inside the campaign for his second solo EP, NO LABELS: PART 02, released July 10, 2026 through BIGHIT MUSIC — under four weeks between release and broadcast .
The chart context is where the two diverge most clearly. NO LABELS: PART 02 debuted at No. 16 on the Billboard 200 on the chart dated July 25, 2026, with No. 1 on World Albums and No. 4 on Top Album Sales . It was Yeonjun's second Billboard 200 entry as a soloist, following NO LABELS: PART 01, which peaked at No. 10 in 2025.
| Detail | Jungkook (BTS) | Yeonjun (TOMORROW X TOGETHER) |
|---|---|---|
| GMA Summer Concert Series slot | July 2023 — first K-pop solo booking | Aug. 5, 2026 — second K-pop solo booking |
| Release cycle at the time | Solo single campaign | NO LABELS: PART 02 EP, out July 10, 2026 |
| Billboard 200 position in cycle | Not covered in indexed sources for this comparison | No. 16 (chart dated July 25, 2026) |
| Reported crowd | Not specified in indexed sources | Hundreds to thousands, queuing from just after midnight |
| Venue | Summer Concert Series stage, New York | Central Park |
Crowd scale is documented in more detail on the 2026 side. amNY reported fans gathering near Fifth Avenue and East 72nd Street shortly after midnight, in the hundreds-to-thousands range, with MOA waving TXT's mint-colored lightsticks . Comparable turnout figures for the 2023 booking are not available in indexed reporting, so any head-to-head crowd claim would be speculation.
What the two slots do mark, taken together, is placement: U.S. network morning shows now treat K-pop soloists as bookable summer-series headliners rather than novelty segments. Two bookings in three years is a small sample, but both went to acts promoting a current release with a charting album behind them .
MOA Lined Up Since Midnight for a Central Park Slot
MOA — the official fandom name for TOMORROW X TOGETHER — began gathering near Fifth Avenue and East 72nd Street shortly after midnight on the morning of the broadcast, hours before the 7:00 a.m. EDT start of Good Morning America . Local reporting put attendance in the hundreds-to-thousands range by sunrise, filling the approach to Rumsey Playfield with mint-colored TXT lightsticks, handmade signs and photocards .source
The queue was regional as much as it was local. Several of the fans interviewed on site traveled in overnight from outside Manhattan and rearranged work schedules to hold a spot near the barricade.
- El Park, 19 — traveled from Long Island wearing NO LABELS merchandise .
- Angelina Laibhen, 20, and Alyhia Santos, 21 — took a 3 a.m. Long Island Rail Road train into the city and called out of work to attend .
- Crowd signals — mint lightsticks, printed signs and photocards, the standard visual kit MOA brings to TXT events .
"I've been a TXT fan since debut," — Alyhia Santos, 21, attendee at the Central Park taping (source: amNY).
That framing matters for how the turnout reads. Santos dates her fandom to TXT's 2019 debut, meaning much of the crowd predates YEONJUN's solo catalog and arrived for the member rather than for a single release cycle . For a free, unticketed morning-show slot, that carryover is the practical draw: no reserved seating, no on-sale, just an overnight queue.
Access mechanics were also the constraint. The Summer Concert Series is first-come at the park entrance, so the midnight arrival time was less about enthusiasm signaling than about sightlines for a set that ran inside a two-hour live window .
NO LABELS: PART 02, the Album Behind the Broadcast
NO LABELS: PART 02 is YEONJUN's second solo EP, released July 10, 2026 at 1 p.m. KST through BIGHIT MUSIC, and it is the record the Central Park set was built to promote . The EP runs six tracks across 16 minutes and 9 seconds, with pre-orders having opened June 16 at 10 a.m. KST . Three of its songs — "Vanilla," "Ice Cream" and "Talk to You" — carried the broadcast segment.source
The tracklist, in order: "Vanilla," "Ice Cream," "Baby Wassup?," "No More Disco," "Fxxking Star" and "Long Way Long Ride" . YEONJUN's own credits run deeper than on the first installment: BigHit Music told Yonhap that he helped create the "Ice Cream" choreography and wrote lyrics for "Baby Wassup?" and "Long Way Long Ride" .
That authorship is what he pointed to on air. Speaking with GMA's Sam Champion after the set, YEONJUN described PART 02 as "a lot more natural and unfiltered" than its predecessor, and said he wanted to show a different side of himself .
"It's a lot more natural and unfiltered." — YEONJUN, on NO LABELS: PART 02, speaking to Sam Champion on ABC's Good Morning America (source: Billboard)
Commercially, the EP landed a month before the GMA slot. On the Billboard charts dated July 25 and announced July 21, it debuted at No. 16 on the Billboard 200 — his second solo entry there after PART 01 peaked at No. 10 in 2025 .
| Metric | Result | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Billboard 200 debut | No. 16 (chart dated July 25, 2026) | Soompi |
| World Albums | No. 1 | Soompi |
| Top Album Sales | No. 4 | Soompi |
| Artist 100 | Re-entry at No. 17 | Soompi |
| "Ice Cream," Global Excl. U.S. | No. 89 entry | Soompi |
| Korean release-day sales (Hanteo) | 661,924 copies | No Labels: Part 02 |
| Korean first-week sales (Hanteo) | 738,072 copies | No Labels: Part 02 |
| Circle Weekly Album Chart | No. 1 debut on 581,091 copies | No Labels: Part 02 |
The split in those numbers explains the U.S. promotional push. Korean physical sales carried the release — 661,924 copies on release day per Hanteo and 738,072 in week one — while the streaming footprint was thinner, with "Ice Cream" entering Global Excl. U.S. at No. 89 . A free morning-show slot on network television addresses exactly that gap.
What's Next: KCON LA and a TXT Reunion
The Central Park slot was one stop in Yeonjun's densest U.S. promotional run so far, and the calendar after it points back toward the group. Within the same cycle he played iHeartRadio's Z100 Summer Bash in Manhattan, Billboard's "One Night Only," threw a ceremonial first pitch at Dodger Stadium for Korean Heritage Night, and closed the stretch at KCON LA 2026 on Aug. 14–16 .
KCON LA is where the solo run folds back into TOMORROW X TOGETHER: Yeonjun rejoined the group for its headlining set, ending a stretch of solo-only U.S. appearances .
Three dated items frame the weeks after the broadcast:
- Aug. 14, 2026 — KCON LA opens (through Aug. 16), with Yeonjun performing alongside TOMORROW X TOGETHER .
- Aug. 14, 2026 — Sublime closes the GMA Summer Concert Series in Central Park, the final booking of ABC's 2026 lineup .
- Aug. 19, 2026 — "Setsuna Hanabi," TXT's fifth Japanese single, scheduled for release .
Fans converted by the broadcast and planning a Seoul trip should note that concert-side logistics differ sharply from U.S. festival access; creator vlogs covering TXT shows in Seoul are useful for expectation-setting, though they are first-person accounts rather than verified reporting (video: seoulmates).
The concrete takeaway: Yeonjun's GMA slot was a promotional bridge, not a departure. Five days after Central Park he was back on a stage with TOMORROW X TOGETHER, and five days after that the group had a Japanese single out — a solo EP cycle and a group release running inside the same three-week window.
Frequently asked questions
What date did Yeonjun perform on Good Morning America?
YEONJUN performed on ABC's "Good Morning America" Summer Concert Series on Aug. 5, 2026, in Central Park . ABC's original lineup page, published July 7, 2026, and early Korean press coverage had listed Aug. 7 instead . ABC's updated Good Morning America lineup page, dated July 23, 2026, moved the slot to Aug. 5, and event-day reporting confirmed it. No indexed source explains the schedule change.
Is Yeonjun the first K-pop artist to perform on GMA's Summer Concert Series?
No. BTS member Jungkook performed the series first, in July 2023, making YEONJUN the second Korean solo act booked for the franchise . Both artists appeared as solo performers rather than with their groups. The 2026 series also featured Keith Urban on July 10, Coco Jones on July 24, Dan + Shay on July 31, and Sublime on Aug. 14, sponsored by Norwegian Cruise Line .
What songs did Yeonjun perform at GMA?
YEONJUN opened with "Vanilla," the first track on his second EP, then performed "Ice Cream" and "Talk to You" during the broadcast segment, and played "GGUM" off-camera after the cameras cut, according to Billboard and amNY. Four male backup dancers in black joined him mid-set, followed by two female dancers. The setlist comes from trade and local press; ABC did not publish an archived performance page listing it.
What album was Yeonjun promoting at the GMA performance?
He was promoting "NO LABELS: PART 02," his second solo EP, released July 10, 2026 through BIGHIT MUSIC . The six-track, 16-minute record debuted at No. 16 on the Billboard 200, No. 1 on World Albums and No. 4 on Top Album Sales . In Korea it sold 661,924 copies on release day per Hanteo and topped the Circle Weekly Album Chart .
Will Yeonjun reunite with TOMORROW X TOGETHER after the GMA appearance?
Yes. YEONJUN rejoined TOMORROW X TOGETHER for the group's headlining set at KCON LA 2026, held Aug. 14–16, nine days after the Central Park broadcast . The group also had its fifth Japanese single, "Setsuna Hanabi," scheduled for Aug. 19, 2026 . The solo EP cycle and the group's release calendar ran in parallel rather than replacing one another.
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