K-pop girl group Blackpink will perform two shows at Hong Kong’s Kai Tak Stadium in January next year. It seems to mark the end of the group’s “Deadline” world tour.
The superstars last performed in the city in 2023 for three sold-out shows at AsiaWorld-Expo.
According to details released by K-pop agency YG Entertainment on Tuesday, the world tour will kick off in July in Goyang, South Korea, and is scheduled to conclude with the two shows in Hong Kong on January 24 and 25.
The four-member girl group, comprising Jennie, Jisoo, Lisa and Rose, will tour the United States and Canada this summer. Blackpink will then head to Europe, with scheduled concerts in Paris, Milan, Barcelona and London, before returning to Asia.
The group will stop in Kaohsiung in Taiwan and Bangkok in October, followed by Jakarta, Bulacan in the Philippines, and Singapore in November, with the tour culminating in shows in Tokyo and Hong Kong in January. It remains unconfirmed whether additional dates will be added to the tour after those shows.
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For the Hong Kong concerts, members of the Blink fan club had an exclusive presale registration period from Tuesday until Sunday, with the presale itself scheduled for June 10.
Two further rounds of presales will be held on June 11 and June 12, before tickets go on general sale at 11am on June 13.
Over the past two months, the 50,000-seat stadium has hosted concerts by British rock band Coldplay, Cantopop star Nicholas Tse Ting-fung and Taiwanese band Mayday. South Korean boy band NCT Dream will perform at the venue in August.
Blackpink’s Hong Kong concerts in 2023 were instrumental in heralding Hong Kong’s post-Covid reopening, with tickets snapped up within hours of going on sale.
The concerts took place just days after Hong Kong and mainland China reopened their borders. Eager fans from the mainland rushed to secure tickets for the shows, leading to a significant surge in demand that saw resellers inflate ticket prices to as much as HK$25,000 (US$3,210).
