BIGBANG Announces 31-Show Stadium World Tour — 18 Cities, 4 Continents & Their First Tour in 9 Years for 20th Anniversary!

The kings are back. And they’re going MASSIVE. 4On June 11, YG Entertainment announced BIGBANG’s 2026 World Tour. 1BIGBANG’s first tour since 2017 will bring members G-Dragon, Taeyang, and Daesung together for a 31-show stadium tour across Asia, North America, Europe, and Australia.

Nine years of waiting. Twenty years since debut. Thirty-one shows across the planet’s most iconic stadiums. This isn’t just a concert tour — it’s a coronation. VIPs, your moment has finally arrived.

All 31 Tour Dates & Venues — Complete Schedule

7 BIGBANG has confirmed a total of 18 cities and 31 concert dates. 7 The tour will be held exclusively at world-class stadiums and domes, including Goyang Stadium, MetLife Stadium, Stade de France, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Kaohsiung National Stadium, Taipei Dome, Tokyo Dome, Kyocera Dome Osaka, and PayPay Dome Fukuoka.

2 BIGBANG will head to the United States, Europe, Southeast Asia, Australia and Japan before closing the announced schedule with two nights at Kaohsiung National Stadium in Taiwan in February 2027. 4 YG Entertainment shared, “In order to meet the expectations of fans who waited a long time, we are preparing with great care in both scale and completeness. We will also reveal additional locations sequentially in the future, so please show lots of interest.”

Tour Overview at a Glance

The Coachella Announcement That Started It All

1 The milestone tour has been teased for months, with G-Dragon getting fans excited during his Übermensch tour run, but the official announcement didn’t arrive until the end of BIGBANG’s weekend two Coachella set. 3 A YG Entertainment representative shares, “As BIGBANG is one of the leading artists who broadened the reach of K-Pop on a global scale by setting new milestones in the popular music industry, BIGBANG is channelling every effort to deliver the best-ever scale and level of perfection for the upcoming shows.”

They added that the shows are “set to be monumental, spanning the past, present, and future of K-Pop.” 3 Taeyang shared in conversation with Rolling Stone that putting the set list together was the hardest part of preparing, suggesting that the setlist for the upcoming tour will be just as carefully and thoughtfully curated.

The Venue Scale — STADIUMS ONLY

This isn’t an arena tour — it’s a stadium tour. Every single venue is a world-class stadium or dome:

MetLife Stadium alone holds over 82,000 people. Stade de France holds 81,000. Accor Stadium in Sydney holds 83,500. The scale of this tour is unprecedented for a K-pop act that hasn’t toured in nearly a decade.

Why 9 Years Away Makes This Tour Historic

5 It is their first major group activity since the 2017 “Last Dance” tour and marks a fresh start for the group.

The gap between BIGBANG’s last world tour and this one is the longest hiatus-to-stadium-tour return in K-pop history:

4 BIGBANG debuted in August 2006, and they will be celebrating their 20th debut anniversary this year.

The Current BIGBANG — Who’s Performing?

2 The announcement marks a major return to the global stage for G-DRAGON, TAEYANG and DAESUNG, whose impact on K-pop, Korean hip-hop, pop performance and idol culture remains difficult to overstate.

BIGBANG’s Touring Legacy — By the Numbers

2 The group helped push K-pop into a more self-styled, performance-driven and genre-fluid era, with music that moved through hip-hop, R&B, electronic pop and arena-sized anthems without losing its individual edge.

2 Two decades after BIGBANG’s debut, the group’s name still carries the kind of weight that turns a tour poster into an event.

Predicted Setlist — What Songs Will They Perform?

Based on their Coachella set and concert history, here’s what VIPs can expect:

3 The group’s Coachella set drew from every era of BIGBANG’s career.

How to Prepare for Tickets

1 The official tour title and ticketing information will be announced at a later date, but for now, fans can sign up to the group’s official b.stage for updates.

2 With stadium and dome dates already listed across several major markets, demand is expected to be high.

Why This Tour Matters — Beyond Music

2 That legacy is central to why the BIGBANG 20/26 World Tour feels larger than a standard concert announcement. 2 G-DRAGON, TAEYANG and DAESUNG are not simply revisiting the past. They are returning to some of the biggest venues in the world with a catalogue that shaped a generation of artists and fans.

BIGBANG didn’t just pave the way for K-pop’s global expansion — they built the highway. Without BIGBANG, there is no BTS at stadiums, no BLACKPINK at Coachella, no fourth-generation groups charting on Billboard. Every modern K-pop act owes a debt to the group that proved Korean artists could fill arenas worldwide.

This 20th-anniversary tour isn’t just a celebration of BIGBANG — it’s a celebration of the entire K-pop movement they helped create.

For a comprehensive overview of BIGBANG’s career, discography, and cultural impact, visit the official BIGBANG Wikipedia page.

The Bottom Line

8 That makes the tour, which spans 31 shows, one of the group’s biggest returns in years and the clearest sign yet that BIGBANG is planning a full-scale comeback rather than a one-off celebration.

Three members. Eighteen cities. Thirty-one stadium shows. Four continents. One legacy. After nine years away, BIGBANG isn’t just coming back — they’re reminding the world who started it all. August can’t come soon enough. 👑🔥

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