Watch BTS debut ‘ARIRANG’ songs as they kick off 2026 world stadium tour at Goyang Stadium

    K-pop boy band BTS perform live in 2026

    BTS kicked off their huge 2026 and 2027 world tour at Goyang Stadium in South Korea, and broke out tracks from ‘ARIRANG’ for the first time. Check out the footage and setlist below.

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    These shows are the first tour dates from the K-Pop giants in three years and will see them cover 34 regions with 79 live shows, marking their biggest tour yet.

    Before kicking off, they held a free concert in Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul, which was livestreamed to over 190 countries on Netflix and welcomed roughly 104,000 fans – breaking the record for the largest-ever public concert in South Korea.

    That gig saw them break out new tracks from their new album, ‘ARIRANG’ for the first time, including ‘Body to Body’, ‘Hooligan’, ‘2.0’, and ‘Like Animals’, and RM performed seated for much of the set after spraining his ankle in rehearsals.

    Now, the seven-piece have officially started their tour with the first of three nights planned at Goyang Stadium this month. Taking place last night (Thursday April 9), they opened the 23-song setlist with new tracks ‘Hooligans’ and ‘Aliens’, before dusting off ‘Run BTS’.

    From there, they gave live debuts to ‘They Don’t Know ‘Bout Us’ and ‘Merry Go Round’ in the rest of the first act, and also performed tracks including ‘Like Animals’, ‘SWIM’, and ‘FAKE LOVE’.

    Act two began with ‘2.0’ and ‘NORMAL’, before the band played ‘Not Today’ for the first time since 2021 and the Steve Aoki remix of ‘MIC Drop’.

    After other favourites like ‘IDOL’ and ‘Body To Body’, BTS moved onto the encore, which included the first live performance of ‘Come Over’, ‘Please’ and ‘Into The Sun’, as well as the first rendition of ‘I Need U’ since 2021.

    Check out more footage, fan reactions, and the full setlist below.

    BTS’ setlist was:

    Act One
    ‘Hooligan’
    ‘Aliens’
    ‘Run BTS’
    ‘they don’t know ’bout us’ (Live debut)
    ‘Like Animals’
    ‘FAKE LOVE’
    ‘Interlude’
    ‘SWIM’
    ‘Interlude’
    ‘Merry Go Round’ (Live debut)

    Act Two
    ‘2.0’
    ‘NORMAL’
    ‘Not Today’ (Remix; first time since 2021)
    ‘MIC Drop’ (Steve Aoki Remix)
    ‘FYA’
    ‘Fire’
    ‘Body to Body’
    ‘IDOL’

    Encore:
    ‘Come Over’ (Live debut)
    ‘Butter’
    ‘Dynamite’
    ‘Mikrokosmos’
    ‘I Need U’ (First time since 2021)
    ‘Please’ (Live debut)
    ‘Into the Sun’ (Live debut)