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Start date | November 18, 2017 |
End date | December 31, 2017 |
Legs | 2 |
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Big Bang concert chronology |
The Last Dance Tour is the sixth concert tour in Japan and eleventh overall by South Korean boy band Big Bang. The tour began on November 18, 2017 in Fukuoka, Japan and concluded on December 31, 2017 in Seoul, South Korea. BigBang broke their own record by being the only foreign act to hold a dome-sized arena tour in Japan for the fifth consecutive year. [1] The oldest member T.O.P did not perform on this tour due to his mandatory military service in South Korea which began in February 2017.
YG Entertainment announced on August 8, 2017 that BigBang will be holding their last tour in Japan before their upcoming hiatus due to South Korean mandatory military conscription. On the Last Dance Tour, BigBang became the very first foreign artist in Japan to hold a dome tour for the fifth consecutive year. [1] BigBang performed 14 concerts across four cities: Fukuoka, Osaka, Nagoya, and Tokyo; a total of 696,000 fans attended the Japanese leg. As a result, BigBang's Dome Tour since 2013 attracted a total of 4,205,500 fans, a record for overseas singers. [2] [3] [4] [5] On October 19, the final shows of the tour was announced to be held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on December 30 and 31. [6] Two shows from the tour, the Tokyo Dome concert on December 13 and the Seoul concert on December 30 is due to be broadcast live across 109 cinemas in Japan. [7] [8]
Date | City | Country | Venue | Attendance |
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November 18, 2017 | Fukuoka | Japan | Fukuoka Yahuoku! Dome | 100,000 [9] |
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November 23, 2017 | Osaka | Kyocera Dome | 153,000 | |
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November 25, 2017 | ||||
December 2, 2017 | Nagoya | Nagoya Dome | 81,500 | |
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December 6, 2017 | Tokyo | Tokyo Dome | 165,000 [10] | |
December 7, 2017 | ||||
December 13, 2017 | ||||
December 21, 2017 | Osaka | Kyocera Dome | 196,500 [11] | |
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December 23, 2017 | ||||
December 24, 2017 | ||||
December 30, 2017 | Seoul | South Korea | Gocheok Sky Dome | 70,000 [12] |
December 31, 2017 | ||||
Total | 766,000 [5] [12] |
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The Alive Galaxy Tour was the first worldwide concert tour and sixth overall by South Korean boy band Big Bang. It promotes the group's fifth Korean-language EP, Alive, across four continents: Asia, North America, South America and Europe. The group hired choreographer and creative director Laurieann Gibson to direct the show. The tour was officially sponsored by Samsung GALAXY.
The Japan Dome Tour was the fourth concert tour in Japan and seventh overall by South Korean band Big Bang. The tour visited six of Japan's major concert domes, making BigBang the first foreign artists to headline their own six-dome tour. The tour was one of the country's highest-grossing concert tours of the year, and grossed over US$70.6 million from sixteen shows, with all of the tickets from the tour being sold out.
The Made World Tour was the second worldwide concert tour and ninth overall by South Korean boy band Big Bang, in support of their third Korean-language studio album Made (2016). The tour began on April 25, 2015, and concluded on March 6, 2016, in Seoul, South Korea. It visited 15 countries including China, Japan, Australia, Mexico, and the United States.
The Made V.I.P Tour is the first Chinese fan meeting tour by South Korean boy band Big Bang, in support of their albums, M, A, D and E released in 2015. The tour attracted over 500,000 people in Mainland China alone, breaking BigBang's own record for the most attended tour by a foreign language act of all time in China. Their event in Luoyang, China attracted over 45,000 people broke their previous record for the largest audience drawn by a foreign language act of all time in China. BigBang was the highest earning act in Mainland China from concert revenue in 2016, surpassing local acts like Jay Chou and Eason Chan, by earning 70.3 million USD from 36 concerts, accounting for 70% of the total box office of South Korean acts in China.
Big Bang Made is a 2016 South Korean documentary film featuring popular boy band Big Bang on their tour, the Made World Tour in 2015, which became the most attended tour headlined by a Korean act in history. It was released in South Korea and Japan on June 30, 2016. It is the band's first film, released to celebrate the tenth anniversary of their debut.
0.TO.10 was the tenth concert tour by South Korean boy band Big Bang that was held to celebrate the group's tenth anniversary. The tour visited Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong from July 2016 to January 2017. The shows were live-streamed through theatres in Japan, Tencent QQ in China and Naver's V app. BigBang held 24 concerts in six cities, which attracted more than 1.1 million fans.
"Fxxk It" is a song recorded by South Korean boy band Big Bang. The group's first single in over a year, "Fxxk It" was released alongside "Last Dance" on December 13, 2016, in conjunction with the group's third Korean-language studio album Made through YG Entertainment. It was written by long-time group collaborator Teddy Park with group members G-Dragon and T.O.P, with production handled by the first two contributors along with R. Tee.
Big Bang Special Event is a series of fan meeting events by Big Bang, which began in 2016 with 8 shows in Japan and South Korea, held alongside their 10th anniversary tour 0.TO.10. All members attended the first leg of the tour, however T.O.P missed all shows of the second leg, due to his two-year mandatory military service in South Korea.
The Japan Dome Tour “X” was the fifth concert tour in Japan and eighth overall by South Korean boy band Big Bang. The tour began on November 15, 2014 in Nagoya, and concluded on January 18, 2015 in Osaka. The tour made BigBang the first foreign artist to hold five dome arena concerts for two consecutive years. They gathered more than one million Japanese fans in 2014.
The Rise World Tour is the first world tour by South Korean singer Taeyang, in support of his second studio album RISE. The tour started on August 12, 2014 in Osaka, Japan and ended on March 1, 2015 in Taiwan.
The White Night World Tour is the second world tour by South Korean singer Taeyang. The tour began in Japan with four stadium shows and is set to visit 19 cities around the world.
The Power World Tour is the second world tour by South Korean music label YG Entertainment in 2014, the last being the Past, Present & the Future world tour in 2006. The tour marks the entertainment agency's first family concert in two years. The tour kicked off at Kyocera Dome in Osaka, Japan for a two-day performance on April 12 and 13 before visiting other cities in Japan, China and Korea. The tour was officially sponsored by Samsung Galaxy in China, Taiwan and Singapore.
The Global Warning Tour was the first Asian concert tour by South Korean boy band Big Bang. The tour began on March 28, 2008, in Tokyo, Japan and concluded on June 22, 2008, in Seoul, South Korea.
The Great Seungri was a concert tour by South Korean singer Seungri. The tour began in Seoul, South Korea at the Jangchung Gymnasium on August 4, 2018, and concluded in Queenstown, Singapore at The Star Theater.