It is now getting certain that BTS' decision to serve in the military was probably the most foolish decision in the entire history of Pop as its empire is now being torn into pieces.
Stray Kids , which already had 19 concert dates, all but 4 of them stadium concerts, in 2024 will add 25 more concert dates, all but two (at Hong Kong) stadium tours. (The Johan Cruiff 'Arena' at Amsterdam, named after Holland's most famous soccer player, is as large as a stadium)
Worse,all of them are one day affairs.
JYP is now upping his ante.
It is likely that Stray Kids will have a larger tour than BTS in 2026!
BTS' 2020 tour, which didn't take place, had 39 dates so Stray Kids already outdid BTS. However SKZ' tour straddles thru 2 years so at least it has not decisively beaten BtS yet.
It is likely that whatever tour schedule BTS, whose members would be over 30 except Jungkook (30 in Korean age), will offer, SKZ will outdo if this round does well.
Seventeen had limitation since its exposure beyond Asia is weak.
However, SKZ, with 2 Australian members (although Christopher Bang was born in Korea - again Christopher Bang is no relation to the owner of Hybe, their surnames written in different Chinese characters. Felix Lee was born in Australia.)
has little limitations in the west.
With the declining album sales, it is possible that SKZ might outsell BTS in 2026!
What would happen if that happens?
The heaven and earth will move over
BTS had world domination but it threw that away to placate the Koreans who did not really matter as far as their international popularity was concerned
and now JYP and SKZ are en route to stomp them!
If they abandoned Korea, set up a new domicile in some other country and continued to tour the world (except Korea, of course), we would not have heard too much of SVT or SKZ, but now the game has changed.
