The BTS Comeback is Upon Us with a 79-Date Global Tour Announcement and a Two-Night Manila Stop

GLOBAL NEWS —The Internet took a collective, gleeful shriek following an awaited announcement on what is expected to be a colossal return of K-Pop juggernaut, BTS, officially lifting the velvet rope from years of hiatus, from their mandatory obligations as citizens and a number of solo ventures in between.

In an announcement made Tuesday, January 13, BigHit Music, behind the iconic South Korean septet of V, Jung Kook, Jin, Jimin, J-Hope, RM, and Suga, shared news of their upcoming stage comeback to the delight fans on long standby, weeks after announcing the group’s return to music slated for March 20.

Prior to this tour dates drop, BIGHIT Music teased about the upcoming release of BTS The Fifth Album, described to “[hold] special significance as it marks the first album released by the group in three years and nine months, while also indicating the direction the group will take going forward.” The music label further shared the highly-anticipated 14-track album track “packed with honest stories that BTS wants to share with ARMY”. It added that the record is filled “music that’s most true to BTS, the album is their heartfelt way of saying thank you to ARMY, who have been there this whole time.”

The tour then kicks off this April 2026 at the Goyang Stadium in South Korea with shows running for close to a year until 2027 across continents from Europe, North America, South America, Australia, and Asia, including a two-night show in Manila set for March 13-14. Additional dates are reported to more cities including in Japan and the Middle East, along with other concert venues in Brazil, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Manila, and more.

This marks as the group’s return to stage since 2022’s “Permission to Dance On Stage” Tour across sold out stadiums in Seoul and the US, among other stage performances that solidified their global musical dominance. In the Philippines, BTS last performed at the Mall of Asia Arena in 2017 for the BTS Live Trilogy Episode III: The Wings Tour in Manila. They then performed to a sold-out venue for BTS Live On Stage: Epilogue in Manila on July 2016. In 2014, they first landed in the Philippines for BTS Live Trilogy in Manila: Episode II – The Red Bullet, at the same venue.

The Philippine arm of Live Nation also backed and hyped this announcement with venue and ticketing information to be announced soon.

It can be remembered that in 2022, the group shared  their hopes of individual and collective break in an hour-long video that detailed their plans to rest and work on their personal ventures, which meant an opportunity to release individual albums and headline their own tours and festival performances outside the already solid-entity that is BTS, and even K-Pop. This led also to their military enlistment that began with Jin in 2022, with Suga, in an alternative service was discharged just last June 2025.

With the rundown dates now available, it was also announced that a presale is happening on January 22 and 23 January for official ARMY Membership holders who register on Weverse ahead of the general sale for all regions that will then trail this sale on January 24.

See below the complete world tour dates:

2026

• 9 April and 11-12 April – Goyang, South Korea

• 17-18 April – Tokyo

• 25-26 April – Tampa, Florida

• 2-3 May – El Paso, Texas

• 7 May and 9-10 May – Mexico City

• 16-17 May – Stanford, California

• 23-24 and 27 May – Las Vegas

• 12-13 June – Busan, South Korea

• 26-27 June – Madrid

• 1-2 July – Brussels

• 6-7 July – London

• 11-12 July – Munich

• 17-18 July – Paris

• 1-2 Aug – East Rutherford, New Jersey

• 5-6 Aug – Foxborough, Massachusetts

• 10-11 Aug – Baltimore

• 15-16 Aug – Arlington, Texas

• 22-23 Aug – Toronto

• 27-28 Aug – Chicago

• 1-2 Sept and 5-6 Sept – Los Angeles

• 2-3 Oct – Bogotá, Colombia

• 9-10 Oct – Lima, Peru

• 16-17 Oct – Santiago, Chile

• 23-24 Oct – Buenos Aires, Argentina

• 28 Oct and 30-31 Oct – São Paulo

• 19 Nov and 21-22 Nov – Kaohsiung, Taiwan

• 3 Dec and 5-6 Dec – Bangkok

• 12-13 Dec – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• 17 Dec, 19-20 Dec and 22 Dec – Singapore

• 26-27 Dec – Jakarta

2027

• 12-13 Feb – Melbourne, Australia

• 20-21 Feb – Sydney

• 4 March and 6-7 March – Hong Kong

• 13-14 March – Manila, Philippines