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BTS is taking two more stops of the Arirang world tour to the movie theater, and this time the destination is South America. The Korea Times confirmed this week that the group's Buenos Aires and São Paulo shows will screen live in cinemas worldwide, and if last spring's Goyang and Tokyo broadcasts are anything to go by, ARMY outside those two stadiums are about to flood a ticketing site the second it opens. Here's the short version: Buenos Aires screens October 24, São Paulo screens October 30, and both will run live for audiences across the Americas before rolling out with a one-day delay everywhere else. Tickets go on sale worldwide on September 17. What's Actually Screening The two concerts being filmed aren't random tour stops. Buenos Aires marks BTS's first-ever performance in Argentina, and readdork reports it's also the group's first cinema broadcast from South America, period. The full South American leg runs deeper than these two cities: t...

BTS crossed 8.68 billion Spotify streams for 2026 this week, breaking the group's own record for the biggest streaming year any Asian act has ever had on the platform. The old mark was 8.65 billion, set in 2021. Back then, all seven members were still active, years before six of them disappeared into mandatory military service. That's the part worth sitting with for a second. This isn't a comeback year edging out a quiet one. Suga, the last member to finish his service, was only discharged in June 2025, barely nine months before this year's one big release even landed, and 2026 has still outrun the group's own pre-hiatus peak. The count, reported this week by outlets including ARY News and Geo News drawing on Spotify's public streaming data, also has BTS becoming the first group and the first Asian act in Spotify history to put 149 songs past 100 million streams apiece. Four months of 2026 are still on the calendar. Whatever the final number ends up being i...