Is BTS the new Beatles?

BTS is dancing its way to the top. Photo: Handout

It was just a year ago that BTS’ Love Yourself: Speak Yourself tour was selling out stadiums all over the world.

Each night of the 20-date trek, which grossed US$116mil (RM481mil), a total of nearly a million ticket buyers around the planet witnessed a thumping opening liturgy at the top of the K-pop band’s set in the form of the song Dionysus.As flames shot up from the stage, seven figures emerged in supplicant white amid Greek columns and a long altar.