On April 26, 2018, Big Hit Entertainment released a trailer on their official YouTube channel announcing an upcoming world tour.

[8] In May 2018, after the first round of North American ticket pre-sales sold out in seconds,[9][10] a fourth show at Los Angeles' Staples Center was added due to overwhelming fan demand.

The concert sold out in under ten minutes,[14] making BTS the first Korean artist to headline a stadium show in the United States.

[15] The London, Amsterdam, Berlin, and Paris arena stops—the group's first and biggest headlining shows in Europe at the time[16]—also saw commercial success.

[18] Estimated to have sold a total of 790,000 tickets from 33 sold-out shows in 16 cities,[19] BTS added eight additional Asia dates during the European leg of the tour.

[21] According to ticket resale site StubHub, BTS was one of 2018's best selling live artists in international markets outside the United States, second to only Ed Sheeran.

[24] In Japan, BTS came in as the nineteenth best-selling touring act on Nikkei Entertainment's 2018 Concert Mobilization Ranking Top 50.

[27] Tiffany Taylor noted for Billboard News the "amazing choreography", praising the solo performances and energy of the fans as highlight of the night.

"[29] For the Chicago show, critic Kim Youngdae stated that BTS' strengths were the dazzling group displays, artistry in the solo numbers, and how immersive the concert was.

[30] On the tour, Crystal Bell of MTV stated, "BTS have created an experience so captivating, so inclusive, and so visually stunning that it's cemented the boy band as one of the most vital acts in pop music today.

"[31] The Quietus wrote that the European tour was "a search for self-identity": "After two-and-a-half hours of costume changes, pulsing beats, soaring high notes and the impossible iconic beauty of their videos, BTS walk to the front of the stage in low-key jeans and T-shirts.

[33] Vivid Seats named BTS the 2018 artist of the year, citing the group's history-making concert at Citi Field.

[1] The extension began on May 4, 2019, in Pasadena, California and featured concerts in North and South America, Europe, and Asia, including the United States, Brazil, England, France, and Japan.

[60] Their three-day finale in Seoul in October 2019 was estimated to have an economic value of almost ₩1 trillion ($862 million) and brought in 187,000 foreign visitors to South Korea.