BTS will appear on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" on March 25 and 26. Photo / Getty Images
BTS will appear on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" on March 25 and 26. Photo / Getty Images
BTS will appear on back-to-back episodes of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon next week.
The K-pop superstars – made up of RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V and Jung Kook – will feature on the show on both Wednesday, March 25, and Thursday, March 26, in their first USlate-night TV appearance since completing their mandatory military service in South Korea.
The group will sit down for a studio interview with Fallon and perform two songs – which will be shown on two separate episodes.
BTS’ appearance on the show follows on from the release of their long-awaited new album Arirang and the global live performance BTS: The Comeback Live/Arirang – which will stream live from Seoul’s Gwanghwamun Square on Netflix from Saturday.
This will be followed by the feature documentary BTS: The Return later this month.
The band will give their first US late‑night TV interview since military duty. Photo / Getty Images
BTS last performed on The Tonight Show as part of their takeover back in 2021, which featured performances of the tracks Butter and Permission to Dance and amassed almost 120 million digital views.
Although the band members have each appeared on the programme individually since, next week’s episodes mark the septet’s return to the show together.
BTS’ homecoming concert is expected to bring Seoul to a standstill this weekend, with the city confirming that around 3400 safety personnel will be deployed for the performance.
Officials expect roughly 260,000 people to descend on the area for the group’s first show together in nearly four years, prompting one of the largest crowd‑control operations the South Korean capital has ever staged.
