K-pop star J-Hope of boy band BTS will perform as the final act at Chicago’s annual Lollapalooza show this month, becoming the first South Korean artist to headline a major American music festival, organizers said Tuesday.
J-Hope, 28, who made his debut as a member of BTS in 2013 and released his first solo mixtape five years later, is scheduled to close the four-day Lollapalooza festival with a main stage performance on July 31. , according to Live. Entertainment of the Nation.
J-Hope’s billing comes just a month after the seven members of BTS (short for the Korean phrase Bangtan Sonyeondan, or “Bulletproof Boys”) said they were taking a break from musical adventures as a group to pursue solo projects.
Live Nation also announced that five-member South Korean boy band Tomorrow X Together, also known as TXT, will be performing at Lollapalooza on July 30, marking their American festival debut.
Welcoming both acts to the ‘Lollapalooza family’, festival founder Perry Farrell said in a statement: “Their global audience speak different languages but possess an intense passion for their music. … These are the superstars of the global K-Pop phenomenon.”
WaitA rapper, songwriter, and dancer, he was the third member to join BTS, also known as the Bangtan Boys, as a septet trainee, after RM and Suga.
His 2018 solo debut mixtape, ‘Hope World’it peaked at number 38 on the Billboard 200, making him the highest-ranking solo Korean artist on the US album chart at the time, according to Wikipedia.
Still, his solo following pales in comparison to the worldwide blockbuster success of BTS, the best-selling act in South Korean history, with over 30 million albums sold, and one of the few recording groups. since the Beatles in the 1960s to have charted four. Number 1 albums in the United States in less than two years.
Lollapalooza, which began as a road show in 1991, has since made Chicago’s Grant Park its annual venue and ranks as one of the top events on the US music festival circuit.
