Everything You Need To Know About BTS' BangBangCon

The K-pop group shared plans Thursday for Bang Bang Con, an at-home "concert experience" featuring past footage of the band.

BTS’s Map of the Soul Tour was set to kickoff in Seoul on April 11, April 12, April 18, and April 19, but the concerts were cancelled due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The North American leg of the band’s tour was set to begin in April 2020 and continue through June 2020 but was postponed. 

The special event that BTS has prepared to unite its fans for a whole weekend is getting closer, two days in which ARMYs from around the world will be able to enjoy the broadcast of several of their concerts and other content released by the group. With the date fast approaching, fans of the idol group can no longer contain the excitement, but the group members also share this sentiment.

"Spend a couple of Spring Days comfy at home with BANG BANG CON," BTS encouraged fans on Twitter.

To show their followers how they are preparing for this event, they shared a photograph where they both hold an ARMY Bomb and are wearing official merchandise from the group. This publication was decorated with gifts from their lighstick and also a hashtag with brightness and movement where #BTSARMY is read . Likewise, with the text tool these guys invited their fans to stay home, be safe and enjoy the broadcast they have prepared.

Thus, RM and Jungkook show us that they are as excited for the arrival of this day as their fans, an event where in addition to demonstrating that distance does not prevent music from joining us, it will also be an opportunity to motivate and entertain those who for several weeks have remained in confinement.

This is not the first time the BTS members have done their best to cheer up those around the world affected by the coronavirus. In March 2020, the K-pop group appeared on a special primetime episode of The Late Late Show Starring James Corden called “Homefest.”

The episode encouraged viewers to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus and united people across the world through music. For the virtual special, BTS performed their 2019 hit “Boy With Luv” from South Korea. Now, BTS’s upcoming virtual concert series will help give ARMY around the world the next best thing to seeing BTS live.

Bang Bang Con will take place over the course of two days online on April 18 and April 19. The concert special will be made up of eight different parts, and fans can tune into the livestream on the BANGTANTV YouTube channel.

Fans will also be able to connect their BTS Light Stick like a live BTS concert. To do so, fans can play the concerts on the Weverse Media Tab and connect their Official Light Stick through Weverse. Only Ver.3 and the MAP OF THE SOUL SPECIAL EDITION Light Sticks will be able to connect for Bang Bang Con.

BTS’s Bang Bang Con begins on April 18 at 12 p.m. KST with 2015 BTS LIVE: The Most Beautiful Moment in Life On Stage. The other three concerts from that day will be 2016 BTS LIVE [Most Beautiful Moment In Life On Stage: Epilogue], BTS 2014 LIVE TRILOGY: EPISODE II The Red Bullet (2014 Memories), and BTS 3rd MUSTER [ARMY.ZIP+].

The second day of concerts begin on April 19 at 12 p.m. KST. That day, fans will get to experience 2017 BTS LIVE TRILOGY EPISODE III THE WINGS TOUR IN SEOUL, 2017 BTS LIVE TRILOGY EPISODE III THE WINGS TOUR THE FINAL (2017 Memories), BTS 4th MUSTER [HAPPY EVER AFTER], and BTS WORLD TOUR ‘LOVE YOURSELF’ SEOUL.

Also set to stream on April 18 is Global Citizen and Lady Gaga’s “One World: Together At Home” coronavirus relief event, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert, with musical guests including Eilish, Lizzo, J Balvin, Elton John, John Legend, Stevie Wonder and Kacey Musgraves.

BTS released its latest album, Map of the Soul: 7, in February. The group postponed its North American tour in March due to the coronavirus pandemic.

BTS member Suga released an early recording this week of his solo song "Trivia: Seesaw." The song appears on BTS' album Love Yourself: Answer.

The group was previously scheduled to play the Rose Bowl in Pasadena May 2-3 as part of its North American tour.