Boxoffice Insider: K-pop Groups Return To U.S. Cities With Spring Treks

Two of the most popular bands in the Asian pop universe will be entertaining their American fans this spring with concerts in select cities from April to June. The seven-member South Korean boy band ENHYPEN was the first on the scene after kicking off a string of concerts on April 24 in Anaheim, California, while their fellow countrymen, the five members of TOMORROW X TOGETHER, will launch their American run in the northwestern U.S. in May.

ENHYPEN’s “Fate Plus” tour, an extension of the group’s 2023 “Fate” trek, includes concerts at five arenas beginning with Anaheim’s Honda Center, followed by dates at two more West Coast venues. The second performance will be in Northern California, an April 26 event at the Oakland Arena, and the Tacoma Dome in the Seattle market will host the tour on the 28th. In May, the group has two events booked, beginning with a show on the 1st at Allstate Arena in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont, followed by a May 3 concert at UBS Arena in Belmont Park, New York.

During the “Fate” tour last year, the band played seven concerts in U.S. cities during the fall and grossed $15.5 million from 84,890 sold tickets at six venues. The North American trek began on Oct. 6 in the Los Angeles area at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, a sold-out performance with a total of 22,446 tickets purchased. Arena dates followed in Phoenix, Houston, Dallas, Chicago and Newark, New Jersey where ENHYPEN played two shows at Prudential Center, moving 20,053 tickets for concerts on Oct. 18-19 and securing a $3.85 million gross.

However, the 2023 tour launched prior to the U.S. dates with back-to-back sellouts at KSPO Dome in the group’s home city of Seoul and 15,376 fans in attendance on July 29-30. The tour also featured two-show engagements in Japan during September before the American run in October. Then later, in January of this year, the tour resumed in Taiwan, Singapore and Macau with multiple-show engagements in each location before heading to the Philippines and back to Seoul in February.

TOMORROW X TOGETHER, also known as TXT, is gearing up to begin the North American leg of the band’s “Act: Promise” world tour at the Tacoma Dome on May 14. But, like ENHYPEN’S “Fate” trek, the launch of the tour will occur in South Korea, also at Seoul’s KSPO Dome. The group will appear there from May 3 through 5 before heading to Tacoma, Washington for the first American concert.

Performances in two California cities will follow, beginning with a May 18 event at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. It is the first of two shows booked at Major League Baseball stadiums, as a performance at Houston’s Minute Maid Park is also on the schedule for May 26. After the Bay Area concert, the band will play two nights, May 21-22, in Los Angeles at Crypto.com Arena, while the final concert in May is planned for Atlanta, a May 29 event at State Farm Arena.

In June, TXT heads to New York for a two-show stint at Madison Square Garden followed by two nights at Allstate Arena before wrapping stateside with a June 8 performance at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. Then in July, the group will return to Asia for the remainder of the tour with two-show stadium engagements planned in four Japanese cities.

TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s box-office history shows grosses on last year’s “Act: Sweet Mirage” tour reached $49.7 million from 29 shows at 17 venues in Asia and North America with 403,817 in attendance. The tour’s top gross of $7.54 million was recorded at BMO Stadium in Los Angeles with 46,757 sold seats at two shows in May. The best attendance, though, was from a two-night stand at Kyocera Dome in Osaka, Japan with 71,757 tickets sold.

On TXT’s first concert tour, 2022’s “Act: Lovesick,” grosses topped $14.2 million from 110,598 tickets at 19 shows in 13 venues on both continents.