Korean septet BTS announced their upcoming Love Yourself world tour on Thursday (April 25), surprising fans around the world with the news of more than 20 shows set to be held throughout Asia, North America and Europe, plus the promise of more dates to come.
It will be the first tour from the boy band since they set multiple Billboard records with their Love Yourself: Her and Face Yourself albums and saw “DNA” and “Mic Drop (remix)” with Steve Aoki and Desiigner certified gold by the RIAA. It will be preceded by the release of next month’s Love Yourself: Tear album.
Anticipation is building for BTS’ upcoming world tour, and the official hashtag #Love_Yourself, plus several other related ones, trended worldwide following the news. Here’s what some of their fans, known collectively as ARMY, had to say.
There was excitement, to say the least.
DO YOU HEAR ME SCREAMING???!!!! THEY’RE COMING AND WE WILL GET TO SEE THEM!!!!!! —-?? #LoveYourselfWorldTour #PremiosMTVMiaw #MTVBRKPOPBTS @BTS_twt pic.twitter.com/CV0Hnabj5a
— Bangtan’s Army (@ARMY_california) April 26, 2018
bighit: #loveyourselfworldtour
me: pic.twitter.com/ZDQPfbKFes
— M!CH– (@bangtancisions) April 26, 2018
I STILL CANT BELIEVE THAT THEY DROPPED THE DATES LIKE THIS pic.twitter.com/RgSPXUcVez
— HITMAN BANG FANBASE : HITMEN (@HITMAN_FANBASE) April 26, 2018
I am so damn excited to see @BTS_twt in TEXAS that I really might pass the fck out, I may throw up, I am DEFINITELY going to sob my entire lunch break away. #LoveYourselfWorldTour
— Miche (@MicheBangtan) April 26, 2018
I’M FUCKING SCREAMING CAUSE THEYRE FOING TO EUROPE OH MY GOD #LoveYourselfWorldTour pic.twitter.com/jGxHpbcpwo
— cadence (@jeonpadams) April 26, 2018
-BTS last year they performed in gocheok sky Dome with 40.000 capacity
-This year They’re going to start #LOVE_YOURSEL World Tour in Seoul at Olympic Stadium with 70.000 capacity
I’m someone proud of Them.
#LoveYourselfWorldTour#PremiosMTVMiaw #MTVBRKPOPBTS@BTS_twt pic.twitter.com/WcICZONhg4— ` (@Armys__Crew) April 26, 2018
Some expressed surprise at the grandiose scale of the Love Yourself tour.
Jamsil Stadium is one level of legendary but the O2 Arena….KOREAN artists/performers int he friggin O2 Arena (for their own concert too and not as package Kpop deal)??? O_____O
Never in a million years did I think I’d see this day #LOVE_YOURSELF MORE DATES TO COME
— Kommon Sense (@KommonSense77) April 26, 2018
Some ARMY began preparing.
A friendly reminder to everyone one that getting @BTS_twt tickets is basically like the hunger games so whoever is trying to get some make sure to have money in the next month because tickets get released when u least expect it & they run out in mins#BTSWORLDTOUR #LOVE_YOURSELF
— Izzy– (@dancingkingJH) April 26, 2018
BTS world tour:
-save money for plane ticket, concert ticket, and army light bomb
– buy light bomb
-buy concert tickets
-buy plane ticket
-sing with bts
-wave army bomb with armys#LOVEYOURSELF_?_Tear #BtsWorldTour #btscomeback #bts @BTS_twt
— BANGTAN —- SONYEONDAN (@bts_ot7_bts) April 22, 2018
Others started to come up with ideas for activities.
L I S T E N U P
THE OAKLAND AND AMSTERDAM STOPS ARE GOING TO BE ON NAMJOON AND JIMIN’S BIRTHDAY.
please plan something for their birthday.#BTSWORLDTOUR #LOVE_YOURSELF pic.twitter.com/42LuF9M5bQ
— SINGULARITY (@ironchim) April 26, 2018
And some urged people not to inflate ticket prices.
Please do not buy concert tickets just to resell for a higher price,do not buy resale tickets from scalpers, They buy most concert tickets and resell them for 3x 4x the price.Wait for the offical websites to do resales#LOVE_YOURSELF #PremiosMTVMiaw #MTVBRKPOPBTS @BTS_twt
— ` (@Armys__Crew) April 26, 2018
Many ARMY who don’t live in one of the cities currently announced for the tour began hoping as “More Dates to Come” also trended.
“MORE DATES TO COME”
two types of armys: #LOVE_YOURSELF #BTSWORLDTOUR pic.twitter.com/a7tLw13VrH
— ? (@taenyjimin) April 26, 2018
Dear lord notice India —- #LOVE_YOURSELF #LOVEYOURSELFWORLDTOUR more dates to come has all my hopes–Fact-India is the 7th largest country in the world by size and 2nd largest by population..its a freaking huge country with vast number of ARMYs.on this map it’s this sparkly one pic.twitter.com/aKNIJoZdty
— India —- ×BTS (@IndiaNeedsBTS) April 26, 2018
PRAYING FOR ??
LOVEYOURSELF TOUR IN MNL: MAY 2019
— s? (@ilyjikoook) April 26, 2018
when you see “BTS WORLD TOUR”#LOVEYOURSELF AND IN THE END #MOREDATESTOCOME
AND YOU ARE LIKE pic.twitter.com/G3TtXOQurO— Meditation_Boii (@ironic_duck) April 26, 2018
BIGHIT: MORE DATES TO COME
ARMYS:#LoveYourselfWorldTour pic.twitter.com/OarVDYOAuy— PLS BUY MY KIDNEY (@__jiminism) April 26, 2018
And, ARMY being ARMY, some fans noticed some hidden meanings in the concert’s video trailer.
did anyone else catch this:
REAL LOVE
FAKE LOVE
LOVE MYSELF
LOVE YOURSELF#LOVE_YOURSELF #BTSWORLDTOUR pic.twitter.com/VotmbRJbXm— SINGULARITY (@ironchim) April 26, 2018