J-Hope of BTS Added as Headliner of Lollapalooza, the Biggest and Most Important Music Festival

J-Hope of BTS has been added as the main event during the current year’s Lollapalooza celebration, occurring in Chicago’s Grant Park on July 28-31. J-Hope will finish off the celebration on Sunday, July 31, making history as the first South Korean artist to headline the main stage at a major U.S. music festival.

Lollapalooza, one of the greatest and most significant music festivals in the world, has added several names to its lineup for its impending 2022 event, and K-pop fans make certain to be excited about the new acts that have been recruited.

Lollapalooza additionally announced that K-pop group Together has been added to the lineup on Saturday, July 30, denoting their U.S. celebration debut.

J-Hope, one of the seven singers that make up the band BTS, has been picked as an entertainer at Lollapalooza 2022, yet as a headliner. A brief glance at the update posted on the celebration’s site shows that his name has been sandwiched between fellow headlining acts Green Day and Jane’s Addiction on Sunday, the last day of the fun.

BTS member J-Hope is all set to mark a ‘memorable chapter’ in his music career. The singer will headline the Lollapalooza celebration, turning into the main South Korean artist to do as such. He will be joined by the K-pop assembly Tomorrow X (TXT) in this accomplishment.

“I’m happy to welcome J-Hope and Tomorrow x Together into the Lollapalooza family,” said Lollapalooza founder, Perry Farrell, in a statement. “These artists have been given great gifts in communication. Their global audience speaks different languages but possesses an intense passion for their music. Lolla is the place where all music genres live in harmony. These are the superstars of the global phenomenon of K-Pop, and we are so excited to have them at this year’s festival.”

J-Hope joins a stacked bill close by co-headliners Metallica, Dua Lipa, J. Cole, and Green Day among numerous others, as well as sets from Kygo, Big Sean, Jazmine Sullivan, Don Toliver, Charli XCX, Idles, Turnstile, and more. The celebration likewise late posted a full list of set times for the celebration on its Twitter page.

The celebration’s Instagram account, which shared the news to the world on June 7, was a big deal J-Hope’s inclusion. A post that incorporates several photos and a video of the BTS star performing was captioned with the statement, “Verified We are thrilled to announce j-hope of @bts.bighitofficial will headline #Lolla 2022 on Sunday, July 31st! 🙌 His performance will make history, cementing him as the first South Korean artist to ever headline the main stage at a major U.S. music festival.”

J-Hope joins fellow Lollapalooza main headliners Metallica, Lil Baby, Dua Lipa, Machine Gun Kelly, Big Sean, J. Cole, and numerous others. He is set to command the Bed Light Seltzer stage at 9:00 PM on Sunday, July 31, following in the footsteps of artists like The Kid Laroi and Charli XCX, who will play the very stage prior that day.

The additions of J-Hope and Tomorrow x Together come as Doja Cat has canceled several of her summer celebration performances, including Lollapalooza and her run with the Weeknd’s tour, because of throat health complications. The singer uploaded a note to Twitter on May 20explaining her absence and confirming she would be undergoing tonsil surgery and would need the time to recover.

Last year, Lollapalooza likewise occurred in Grant Park and left its imprint as one of the first big fests to return after the shutdowns of the pandemic.

It’s interesting that J-Hope will be headlining Lollapalooza without his bandmates, who aren’t mentioned. While he has vanquished the global music industry as one-seventh of the greatest band in the world at this moment, he has additionally carved out opportunities to compose, record, and release tunes all alone too, as have several of his bandmates.

In 2018, the history when his mixtape Hope World peaked at No. 38 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. At that point, he was one of a tiny number of South Korean soloists to arrive at that list.

The next year, he got back with another single without different members from BTS, “Chicken Noodle Soup,” a joint effort with Latin-pop singer Becky G. That tune carried him to the Hot 100 for the first time on his own, as it rose as high as No. 81, which was also another historic showing.

There have been tales for quite a long time that J-Hope has been working on his sophomore solo project, however, no proper announcements have been made. The way that he is presently set to headline a significant celebration in the biggest music market in the world might be a sign that he’s also gearing up to deliver a new full-length, which would help him flush out his setlist.

In an announcement press release shared by C3 Presents, one of the companies behind Lollapalooza, fellow South Korean vocal act Tomorrow X Together was likewise uncovered as an additional entertainer. The band is set to make that big appearance on Saturday, July 30 in the main U.S. celebration showing.

The Lollapalooza celebration will be held at Chicago’s Grant Park from July 28 to July 31. The organizers took to Twitter on Wednesday to announce that BTS and TXT have been added to the lineup, denoting their US celebration debut. TXT will perform on Saturday, July 30, while J-Hope will headline on Sunday, July 31.