Suga Agust D Tour

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Suga Agust D Tour
Tour by Suga
SUGA Agust D Tour promotional poster.jpg
Promotional poster for the tour
Location
  • North America
  • Asia
Associated album
Start dateApril 26, 2023 (2023-04-26)
End dateAugust 6, 2023 (2023-08-06)
No. of shows
  • 17 in Asia
  • 11 in North America
  • 28 in total
Attendance318,000 [1]
Box office$57.1 million [1]
Suga concert chronology
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Suga Agust D Tour (also known as SUGA | AGUST D TOUR 'D-DAY' after the album release) was the first worldwide concert tour by South Korean rapper Suga, also known as Agust D, in support of his debut studio album, D-Day . The tour began on April 26, 2023, in New York City, and ended on August 6, 2023, in Seoul, South Korea. [2] [3]

Contents

Background and development

On February 14, 2023, Big Hit Music announced that Suga would be embarking on a world tour with a poster listing dates for 20 shows in the United States, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, and South Korea. [3] On March 10, 2023, new shows were announced for June 2–4 at the Pia Arena MM in Kanagawa, Japan. [4] Additional shows in Singapore and Bangkok, Thailand were announced on April 5, 2023. [5] On June 25, 2023, during the artist's then-last worldwide concert tour date in Seoul, 3 additional encore shows at KSPO Dome in Seoul, South Korea were announced, bringing the total number of shows to 28. [6]

Ticketing

Tickets to the U.S. leg of the tour were made available for pre-sale to BTS' global fan club members on March 1 via Ticketmaster, with a general public on-sale scheduled for March 3. On March 1, Ticketmaster reported that all tickets would be released during the first pre-sale because "the demand exceeded the number of available tickets"; the general verified fan pre-sale and public on-sale were subsequently cancelled due to continued high demand. [7] Media outlets noted the fan criticism that Ticketmaster faced for their handling of the sales, particularly in light of the 2022 controversy. [8] [9]

Critical reception

Critics appreciated the tour's production value and artistic direction. Tamar Herman of the Variety thought that "the concert unveils itself like a noir musical with a storm of thunder and lightning amid a purple haze". [10] Likewise, Jae-ha Kim of Teen Vogue , compared it to a rock opera and theater, because of the "pyrotechnics, a backup band and a nine-panels stage that will eventually disappear". [11] Giving it a five star rating, Rhian Daly from NME praised Suga's "underrated vocal skills and rap bar-spitting abilities are second to none". [12] Naming the tour as one the best concerts of 2023, Freya Rinaldi of Atwood Magazine praised the uniqueness of Suga's "performance and his breathtaking stage presence" and the lights and stage production of the show as "incomparable to any other current running tour", deeming it as "one of the best tours to hit the United States in 2023". [13] Kayti Burt of Paste also dubbed Suga's performance of Snooze on stage during the final show on his world tour as "one of the year’s most powerful moments in pop music—the culmination of an arduous journey of self-knowledge and healing, and a testament to one musician’s deep connection to his art." [14] Based on tour data provided to Pollstar, the tour is 9th on the 2023 Top 20 Global Concert Tours list, which ranks artists by average box office gross per number of cities. [15]

Set list

  1. "Haegeum"
  2. "Daechwita"
  3. "Agust D"
  4. "Give It to Me"
  5. "Trivia: Seesaw" (acoustic)
  6. "SDL"
  7. "People"
  8. "People Pt. 2"
  9. "Moonlight"
  10. "Burn It"
  11. "Interlude: Shadow"
  12. "BTS Cypher Pt. 3: Killer" / "BTS Cypher 4" / "UGH!" / "Ddaeng" / "HUH?"
  13. "Life Goes On" (piano)
  14. "Snooze"
  15. "Polar Night"
  16. "Amygdala"

Encore

  1. "D-Day"
  2. "Intro: Never Mind"
  3. "The Last"

Notes

Shows

DateCityCountryVenueAttendanceRevenue
Leg 1 – North America
April 26, 2023 New York City [lower-alpha 1] United States UBS Arena 155,000 [23] —
April 27, 2023
April 29, 2023 Newark Prudential Center —
May 3, 2023 Rosemont Allstate Arena
May 5, 2023
May 6, 2023
May 10, 2023 Inglewood [lower-alpha 2] Kia Forum —
May 11, 2023
May 14, 2023
May 16, 2023 Oakland Oakland Arena —
May 17, 2023
Leg 2 – Asia
May 26, 2023 Banten [lower-alpha 3] Indonesia Indonesia Convention Exhibition ——
May 27, 2023
May 28, 2023
June 2, 2023 Yokohama Japan Pia Arena MM 27,000 [24] —
June 3, 2023
June 4, 2023
June 9, 2023 [25] Nonthaburi [lower-alpha 4] Thailand Impact Arena ——
June 10, 2023
June 11, 2023
June 16, 2023 [25] Singapore Singapore Indoor Stadium 28,000—
June 17, 2023
June 18, 2023
June 24, 2023 Seoul South Korea Jamsil Indoor Stadium 15,000 [26] —
June 25, 2023
August 4, 2023 [27] KSPO Dome 38,000 [28] —
August 5, 2023 [27]
August 6, 2023 [27]
Total$57,100,000 [29]

Notes

  1. ↑ Promoted as Belmont Park.
  2. ↑ Promoted as Los Angeles.
  3. ↑ Promoted as Jakarta.
  4. ↑ Promoted as Bangkok.

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