K-pop titans BTS — aka, the world’s biggest band — has cancelled its massive Map Of The Soul tour, which originally included dates in both the United States and Canada.
The announcement was made on the BTS-affiliated fan platform Weverse and reported by multiple outlets.
“Our company has worked hard to resume preparations for the BTS Map Of The Soul Tour, knowing that all fans have been waiting eagerly and long for the tour,” the tour statement read, according to CNN. “Due to changing circumstances beyond our control, it has become difficult to resume performances at the same scale and timeline as previously planned.”
The tour — supporting the group’s fourth Korean language album, Map Of The Soul: 7 — was originally set to kick off in April 2020 with four shows at Olympic Stadium in Seoul before crossing the Pacific to kick-start a North American run with a two-night stand at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.
But about a month before the group was supposed to take the stage at Levi’s, BTS postponing the tour amid raising case counts and hospitalisation numbers for Covid-19. It was one of the big dominoes to fall, as the touring industry quickly ground to a halt and remained that way for some 15 months.
The dates were never officially rescheduled. And now it appears that they won’t be. – Mercury News/Tribune News Service
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