SINGAPORE – After BTS, Blackpink and Stray Kids, Seventeen will be the next K-pop act to play at the National Stadium in Singapore. The 13-member group will stage the Seventeen Right Here World Tour on Jan 25, 2025, and it will be their largest show in Singapore.
They last performed at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in 2022. Tickets sold out quickly and many Carats (the name given to Seventeen’s fans) were disappointed when they could not snag a ticket.
Tickets to their show at the much larger National Stadium range from $168 to $388 and will go on general sale on Nov 15 at 10am via Ticketmaster. The world tour will not include member Jeonghan, who enlisted in South Korea’s mandatory military service in September. Chinese member Jun will not participate in the 2024 legs of the tour due to conflicting acting commitments. It is unclear if he will join the group in 2025.
There will be two rounds of pre-sales. The Carat membership pre-sale, for those who are part of Seventeen’s official global fan club on Weverse, will begin on Nov 13 at 10am and run till midnight. Fan club members who want access to the pre-sale have to register on Weverse before 11am on Nov 4.
There will also be a pre-sale for Live Nation members via livenation.sg on Nov 14, 10am till midnight.
Seventeen kicked off their tour with two sold-out concerts in South Korea in October and will tour cities in the US and Japan before going to the Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand.
Known for songs like Don’t Wanna Cry (2017), Super (2023) and their recent hit Love, Money, Fame featuring American producer DJ Khaled, Seventeen are one of the most successful K-pop boy bands of the moment.
Their 2023 album FML sold a record-breaking 4.5 million copies in its first week and became the best-selling album worldwide in 2023. Their recent mini album Spill The Feels, released in October, sold over 3.1 million copies in its first week.
Their tour comes amid troubles for the group’s parent company Hybe, which bought over their label Pledis Entertainment in 2020. The company has come under fire after a controversial internal document containing derogatory remarks about K-pop artistes, including Hybe’s own stable of stars, was leaked. Hybe has since apologised for the document.
In what looked to be a response to the scandal, Seventeen’s Seungkwan wrote a lengthy Instagram post on Oct 29, in which he defended the rights of K-pop artistes.
Author: from www.straitstimes.com