Rolling Stone praises BTS' SOLD-OUT London concert, giving it a perfect 5/5 score.
โ "The South Korean group reclaimed their throne as the biggest band in the world in style."
[The Guardian, 5/5โญ๏ธ Review]
โBTS review โ pure joy and astonishing versatility at K-pop titansโ first UK show in seven yearsโ
โItโs a film that comes to mind while watching BTS play their first UK show in seven years, an unbelievably enjoyable spectacle of pyro and panoptical staging, and the purest distillation of what makes a boyband precision-engineered to capture fansโ hearts. BTS are the biggest K-pop group in the world. With more than 40m albums sold, they have a fanbase so fervent it is called the Army.
โฆNo matter how drilled we know K-pop bands to be, BTSโs versatility is still astonishing. The stands literally shake as they thunder through pop-rap crossover Hooligan; the Tame Impala-indebted Like Animals cements their prowess with balladry, soft and floaty enough to feel like itโs being sung directly to each of the 62,000 people in the room. The industrial-level bangers mid-show are a thrilling energy release and the surprise songs that arenโt usual setlist fixtures seem to delight even the band, who grin and sing along to each otherโs parts.
The joy onstage is reflected back approximately one million-fold. It reverberates through the wall of screams and the sea of lit-up Bomb sticks. Girls have photos of their favourite members woven into their hair and dangling off handbags. They end on a gentle note, motioning to each other to take out their in-ear monitors to hear fans sing Into the Sun back to them. I started the show ambivalent and by the end I had a favourite member (Jimin) and an urge to learn Korean. I wanted to make them my wallpaper and bump into them at Duck & Waffle. I didnโt even have a Bomb stick so if they were controlling my mind it was through other means. Whatever BTS has, itโs potent.โ
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According to a new Luminate report, a new segment of Hip-Hop-oriented listeners who don't typically consume K-pop but enjoy BTS has emerged.
โ Although BTS began as a Hip-Hop group, this audience became especially evident following the release of their latest genre-bending album, "ARIRANG."
BTS achieves the biggest monthly gross by a group since the Billboard Boxscore chart began in 2019, surpassing The Rolling Stonesโ $95 million from August 2019 by 35%.
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