This story is a part of Billboard‘s Ok-Pop Concern.
The eight-member boy band identified for honing its intense choreography and showmanship in Los Angeles dance studios wasted little time after COVID-19 restrictions lifted stateside to have interaction a hungry U.S. viewers in 2022.
Final 12 months, ATEEZ staged two world excursions (January’s The Fellowship: Starting of the Finish tour had six dates in 5 completely different U.S. arenas, and The Fellowship: Break The Wall tour included 11 enviornment reveals throughout the U.S. and Canada), plus launched two albums to earn a pair of prime 10 entries on the Billboard 200 (The World EP.1: Motion from July peaked at No. 3 with 50,000 equal album models earned in its first week, based on Luminate, whereas December’s Spin Off: From the Witness landed at No. 7 with 41,500 equal album models earned). Alongside signing with RCA Information, the KQ Leisure boy band’s chart success has been boosted by a novel technique with pop-up shops and Ok-pop fan-driven e-commerce. The group additionally boast 656.8 million official U.S. on-demand streams and greater than 2.8 billion official world on-demand streams.
ATEEZ members Hongjoong, Seonghwa, Yunho, San, Yeosang, Mingi, Wooyoung and Jongho will formally wrap the Break the Wall tour with two encore reveals in Seoul’s Jamsil Enviornment on April 28-29, with world followers capable of dwell stream the latter date. The formidable touring schedule has all been for ATEEZ to achieve a brand new stage of success in its profession.
“Our live shows have been first at small venues; now we’re in arenas,” Hongjoong informed Billboard in an early 2022 interview. “Our subsequent aim is to go to stadiums. That’s our massive aim — and we’ll make it sometime. I belief that. And our followers actually need it too.”
“We are able to do that,” San stated. “We consider in ATEEZ.”
LISTEN TO: “Say My Identify,” “Wonderland,” “Fireworks (I’m the One),” “HALA HALA (Hearts Woke up, Reside Alive)”
A model of this story initially appeared within the April 22, 2023, situation of Billboard.
