Sweeping Stadiums and Domes Worldwide…BIGBANG’s 20th Anniversary World Tour on Another Level
[OSEN=지민경 기자] Group BIGBANG has announced a spectacular return to the global stage. Marking its 20th anniversary, the group is holding a world tour for the first time in nine years, yet it is once again perfectly proving its irreplaceable global status by showcasing an unprecedented scale that spans major stadiums and domes around the world.
The ‘BIGBANG 2026 WORLD TOUR’ plan unveiled by YG Entertainment on the 11th is truly record-breaking. Beginning with the Korea concert in August, the long-awaited journey that will sweep across North America, Europe, Oceania, Japan, Asia and other regions worldwide through February next year has finally been revealed.
BIGBANG has confirmed 31 shows in a total of 18 cities, including Goyang Stadium in Korea, MetLife Stadium in the United States, Stade de France in France, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in the United Kingdom, Auckland in Australia, and Tokyo Dome in Japan. The tour schedule, set only at world-class stadiums and dome-level venues, clearly shows that even a long nine-year hiatus has had no effect on BIGBANG’s overwhelming global ticket power. The dominant view is that this massive scale, fitting for a 20th anniversary project, is a grand move possible only because it is BIGBANG.
The reason expectations are even higher for BIGBANG’s world tour is that the group had already perfectly proven on the Coachella stage in the United States that its form remains at the very top. BIGBANG took the stage at Coachella, the world’s largest music festival held in California last month, and delivered mega-hit songs for about 67 minutes, leading the local audience in explosive sing-alongs.
Major foreign media also poured praise on the stage. Business magazine Forbes called BIGBANG the emperors of K-pop and praised Coachella as the perfect stage for those who laid the foundation for the global K-pop industry to begin a festival. Billboard and the LA Times also vividly reported that the group had perfectly summoned audiences back to K-pop’s golden era and that it was a dazzling party by the most influential group in K-pop. The members’ promise on that very stage, when they declared the start of their 20th anniversary global tour by saying, “We hope our voyage continues,” is now becoming reality in stadiums around the world.
Alongside the stadium tour, active communication with fans is another key part of this 20th anniversary project. On the 21st, at 8:19 p.m., symbolizing the group’s debut date of August 19, BIGBANG simultaneously opened its official community and SNS channels on the global fandom platform b.stage. After touching fans’ hearts by releasing a stylish logo motion video and a photo showing the reliable backs of the members taken at Coachella, the group plans to continue communicating in various ways ahead of the tour. As part of this, through the 21st, they are holding the meaningful event ‘STILL ALIVE,’ in which fans verify treasured items such as light sticks or concert tickets filled with memories shared with BIGBANG and share their stories, further strengthening the fandom’s unity.
A full-group solo concert under the name BIGBANG returns after as many as nine years since the ‘LAST DANCE’ concert held in 2017. To meet the expectations of fans around the world who have waited for so long, all YG staff are pouring great care into every aspect, including scale and quality. The global music industry is focusing its attention on the grand second act of BIGBANG, the ‘emperors of K-pop,’ who will not stop as legends that defined an era but will command stadiums worldwide in the present tense of 2026.
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