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Clara Espinoza

BTS Just Set a Record No Other Act Has Touched at SoFi Stadium. Next Stop: South America.

South Korean K-pop band BTS perform during their "Arirang" tour at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on August 1, 2026. (Credit: Photo by Leonardo MUNOZ / AFP via Getty Images)

Four sold-out SoFi Stadium shows gave BTS the record for most concerts and largest cumulative crowd in the venue's history, closing out a 31-show North American run that Billboard now ranks as the top-grossing trek in vocal-group touring history — with Bogotá, Lima and Buenos Aires about to host the group for the very first time.

  • BTS wrapped the ARIRANG World Tour's North American run with four sold-out SoFi Stadium shows (Sept. 1, 2, 5 and 6), pushing its combined attendance at the venue to roughly 496,000 across eight total concerts — the most by any act in SoFi Stadium's history.
  • Across the full North American run, 31 shows in a dozen cities over five months drew an estimated 1.92 million fans, with every date selling out, according to agency BigHit Music.
  • Billboard Boxscore now credits the tour with $433.2 million in gross revenue and 2.3 million tickets sold through 38 reported shows as of mid-August — far above the $124 million figure widely cited from the tour's opening weeks.
  • BTS heads next to South America, where 14 shows across five countries beginning Oct. 2 in Bogotá will mark the group's first-ever performances in Colombia, Peru and Argentina.
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