BTS announce two-day event next month, ‘Muster Sowoozoo’
Members of K-pop boy band BTS pose for photographs during a photo opportunity promoting their new single ‘Butter’ in Seoul, South Korea, May 21, 2021. Image: Reuters/Kim Hong-Ji
LOS ANGELES — BTS, who are back with another smash single, “Butter,” announced the online live-streaming event “BTS 2021 Muster Sowoozoo,” to be held in celebration of the eighth anniversary of BTS and its “Army” of fans.
Details were slim at the time of the announcement, beyond dates: June 13 (Sun) June 14 (Mon) – WORLD TOUR VERSION (with some of the act’s foreign language songs).
The announcement then says, “More information regarding the tickets will be announced on a later date.”
BTS graced the Billboard Music Awards with a performance of “Butter.” Broadcasting live, BTS performed remotely from Korea. The group, comprised of Jung Kook, V, Jimin, j-hope, SUGA, Jin and RM, took viewers along to a backstage dressing room and onto a red carpet fitted for the BBMAs.
“Butter,” already primed to be an upcoming summer hit, is the K-pop group’s second English single, right behind last year’s earworm, “Dynamite.”
It broke multiple records within the first couple hours of its release. Breaking their own record, “Butter” became the fastest YouTube video ever to reach 10 million views, hitting the mark in just 13 minutes.
Within two hours, the song hit number one on Apple Music. A day in, “Butter” logged the most single-day streams of any song ever on Spotify, with 20.9 million global streams on the first day. The music video also broke their own record and set a new all time 24 hour record of 108.2 million views. It also marks the biggest music video Premiere on YouTube, racking up 3.9 million peak concurrents.
The group will appear on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on May 25 and the “Good Morning America” 2021 Summer Concert Series on May 28. JB
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