BTS win Ticketmaster’s ticket of the year 2018

The K-pop band are the most popular live attraction of this year, as voted for by Ticketmaster customers worldwide

BTS were global ticket of the year 2018 © Big Hit Entertainment

World-conquering Korean boy band BTS has been crowned ticket of the year 2018 by Ticketmaster, which polled fans globally from its database of 200m people to discover the most popular live events of 2018.

The K-pop phenomenon recently became the first Korean act to surpass a billion streams on Apple Music, while their Burn the Stage movie sold more than 1.4m tickets, toppling a record previously held by One Direction.

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