World tour by BTS | |
Location | Various |
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Associated album |
Wings You Never Walk Alone |
Start date | February 18, 2017 |
End date | July 2, 2017 |
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BTS concert chronology |
2017 BTS Live Trilogy Episode III (Final Chapter): The Wings Tour is a concert tour headlined by the South Korean boy band BTS. It was held between February and July in South Korea, Chile, Brazil, United States, Australia, Philippines, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Japan, and Thailand. In all, the entire tour attracted 379,000 spectators in 17 cities.
On November 18, 2016, BTS released a trailer announcing the tour with first shows to be held in South Korea, later six shows were confirmed in five cities in Chile, Brazil, and the US.
Tickets for the US shows sold-out within a few minutes. Due to high demand, two more shows were announced in the Prudential Center and the Honda Center. With over 60,000 fans were in attendance in concerts across Newark, Chicago, and Anaheim. The group went on to sell out their concert headlined in Chile and became the fastest K-pop group to sell out the Movistar Arena, Chile's biggest indoor arena. The press release from BigHit Entertainment quoted Chilean promoters as saying. According to Puntoticket, the Chilean ticket sales and distribution company, the BTS show was the fastest-selling show in Chile's history, only comparable to Maroon 5’s concert in 2016, selling more than 10,000 tickets in less than 2 hours. On January 13, 2017, BTS announced a second concert at the same venue. In Brazil, more than 50,000 fans tried to buy the 14,000 available tickets, which led to protests on Twitter asking for the Brazilian promoters of the tour to change the concerts to a bigger venue. BTS sold 44,000 tickets in total across Chile and Brazil.