In another notch on K-pop’s heavyweight scorecard, Aespa sets an arena tour of Australia for the very first time.
As it stands, the 2024 aespa “LIVE TOUR – SYNK : PARALLEL LINE” features dates in August and September at the country’s two-biggest arenas, Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena and Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena.
TEG Live is producing the Australia run, with Ticketek launching the general ticket on sale Friday, May 10.
Those east coast shows slot into a global tour which begins June 29-30 with two nights in the act’s native Seoul, South Korea.
With this latest international jaunt, Aespa is flexing its muscles as a triple-threat across recorded music, concerts and film.
News of the SM Entertainment-signed girl group’s Australian run coincides with the announcement of Aespa’s debut full-length album, “Armageddon,” due out May 27, and comes as a live concert film rolls out in cinemas.
The four-strong pop group KARINA, WINTER, GISELLE and NINGNING, has released four mini albums, including their 2021 debut, “Savage,” 2022’s “Girls,” and two from 2023 — “My World” and “Drama”.
The latter two EPs impacted the top 20 of IFPI’s Global Album and Global Album Sales Charts (“My World” at No. 12 with 2.1 million combined units, “Drama” at No. 20 with 1.5 million combined units), which featured an unprecedented 19 K-pop titles.
Most recently, the act contributed to “Rebel Moon – Songs of the Rebellion” EP, the companion to Netflix’s sci-fi sequel.
K-pop is raging hot right now. K-pop acts SEVENTEEN and Stray Kids placed second and third, respectively, behind Taylor Swift in the IFPI’s Global Artist Chart for 2023, in a “record year for Korean artists,” the trade body remarks.
Also, South Korean acts accounted for five of the top 10 albums in the IFPI Global Album Chart, representing the best ever global charts performance for the genre.
This week sees the international rollout in theaters of “aespa: WORLD TOUR,” a two-hour film shot at London’s O2 Arena during their “2023 Synk: Hyper Line” world tour.
Directed by Yoon Dong Oh, who was behind recent K-pop concert films “NCT Nation: To the World” and “BTS: Yet to Come in Cinemas,” and Hamin Kim, Aespa’s film is distributed by Trafalgar Releasing with select cinemas screening the film on immersive ScreenX, 4DX and ULTRA 4DX formats.