BIGBANG Mark 20th Anniversary With New Single 'BiiiG'
'BiiiG' lands aug 19 at 6pm KST — their first new song in 4+ years and the GDYB reunion we manifested
we are SO back and i mean that in the second-gen-legends-walked-so-everyone-else-could-run way. BIGBANG is marking TWENTY years since debut by dropping a brand new digital single and my inner 2016 stan is on the floor.
the track is called "BiiiG" and it drops august 19 at 6pm KST via YG Entertainment. it's the group's first new music in four years and four months — since "Still Life" back in april 2022 — so yeah, the drought is officially OVER.
per YG, all three members were hands-on across the entire thing: producing the single AND directing the visual concept and marketing. it's giving grown men who own their vision. the label teased G-Dragon's rapping, Taeyang's vocals and Daesung's powerhouse voice all in one song. the trinity is trinitying.
and they are NOT stopping at a single — the "XX: Cosmos" world tour kicks off at Goyang Stadium aug 21–23 before hitting 33 shows across 19 cities in north america, europe, oceania and asia. VIPs we are eating VERY well this month.
twenty years, a stack of era-defining hits ("Fantastic Baby" supremacy is eternal), and they STILL pull up like it's nothing. mother is mothering. 🎆
Reported by Yonhap News Agency. This article is Aegyo Arena's own write-up of that reporting.
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BIGBANG's Hanoi Concert Drives Up Local Flight, Hotel Prices
Hotels are 80% booked and airfare's up over 1.5x — before tickets are even on sale. VIPs, we ball.
no bc BIGBANG isn't even ON SALE yet and they've already put the Vietnamese travel economy in a chokehold. the group is bringing its world tour to Hanoi's My Dinh National Stadium on Oct. 24 and 25, and the second those dates dropped, fans started booking flights and hotels like their lives depended on it.
the numbers are genuinely unhinged. round-trip domestic flights from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi for that weekend have already hit 5 million dong — more than 1.5 times the usual fare — per Vietnamese outlet VnExpress, and they're only expected to climb as the shows get closer. it's giving surge pricing but make it VIP.
hotels? cooked. the Sheraton Hanoi says roughly 80% of its rooms are already booked for the concert weekend, and a rep noted most are individual reservations — aka fans, not tour groups, locking it in early. mother is booking the suite in advance.
for context, the tickets themselves run between 1 million and 10.5 million dong (about $37 and up), with reservations opening Thursday. and this isn't even YG's first time breaking Vietnam — when BLACKPINK played Hanoi back in 2023, one-way flights on that exact route peaked at a casual 9 million dong.
BIGBANG basically helped build the Korean wave in Vietnam, so the mass hysteria checks out. two nights, one stadium, an entire country's booking apps in shambles — we are SO back. VIPs, hydrate and double-check your layovers.
Reported by The Korea Times. This article is Aegyo Arena's own write-up of that reporting.
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the sparkling-youth boys are back with something soft and the teaser already got me.
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