K-pop star J-Hope of boy band BTS will perform as the final show at the annual Lollapalooza show in Chicago this month, becoming the first South Korean artist to headline a major music festival in the US. organizers said on Tuesday.
J-Hope, 28, who debuted with BTS in 2013 and released her first solo mixtape five years later, is set to end her four-day Lollapalooza festivities with a main stage performance on July 31, according to Live. National Entertainment.
J-Hope's bill comes just a month after seven members of BTS (short for the Korean phrase Bangtan Sonyeondan, or "Bulletproof Boys") said they would pursue musical ventures as a group to pursue solo projects. were taking a break.
Live Nation also announced that the five-member South Korean boy band Tomorrow X Together, also known as TXT, is set to perform at Lollapalooza on July 30, marking their US festival debut.
Welcoming both artists into the "Lollapalooza family", festival founder Perry Farrell said in a statement, "Their global audience speaks many languages ??but has a strong passion for their music ... they are part of the global K-pop phenomenon. Superstars."
J-Hope, a rapper, songwriter and dancer, was the third member to join BTS, also known as the Bangtan Boys, as a septet trainee after RM and Suga.
According to Wikipedia, his 2018 debut single mixtape "Hope World" peaked at number 38 on the Billboard 200, making him the highest-grossing Korean solo artist on the US album chart at the time.
However, their solo success pales in comparison to the global success of BTS, which is the best-selling act in South Korean history with over 30 million albums sold, and has charted four times since the Beatles in the 1960s. One of the few recording groups. , #1 album in the US in less than two years.
Lollapalooza, which began as a touring show in 1991, has since made Chicago's Grant Park its annual venue and is considered one of the major events at American music festivals...Reuters