J-Hope Announces A One-Night-Only Live Concert In Cinemas Globally

Forbes

30-04-2025

J-Hope's solo Hope on the Street Tour ends with a live cinema broadcast, capping off a milestone ... More year filled with new hits, global touring, and Billboard history. PARIS, FRANCE - JANUARY 20: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY - For Non-Editorial use please seek approval from Fashion House) J-Hope from BTS attends the Dior Homme Menswear Fall-Winter 2023-2024 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 20, 2023 in Paris, France. (Photo by Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)
2025 has been an especially busy year for J-Hope. The BTS musician has been focusing heavily on his solo output, as the group that brought him to superstardom remains on hiatus until all seven members complete their military enlistment. In addition to releasing several new tracks and making history on the Billboard charts in the past few months, J-Hope also embarked on his first solo tour. The trek, which has taken him to a number of countries across several continents, only has a few dates left – and one of them will be truly special.
Fans around the world will get to take part in the concert, as it will be broadcast live to theaters globally. J-Hope's Hope on the Street Tour is ending in about a month, with his final two shows scheduled for May 31 and June 1 in Osaka, Japan. The May 31 concert will be broadcast to cinemas worldwide, live.
This special event gives people a chance to take in the show once more — or finally get to see J-Hope live if they weren't able to attend one of the performances. The film, titled J-Hope – Hope on the Street in Japan: Live Viewing, is sure to be a thrilling show for die-hard J-Hope followers who didn't live close enough to one of the concerts in the trek to attend, and perhaps also a quick moneymaker for Hybe and BigHit, as the companies are credited as both director and producer.
Concert films have become increasingly popular and populous in traditional movie theaters over the past several years, as streaming platforms continue to claim more market share in the movie industry. With both streaming-only titles gaining popularity and the window between theatrical and home release shortening, theater chains have had to find creative ways to attract audiences. Music has been a major part of that strategy, especially via concert films.
Most of these projects are not live, though, which makes the South Korean star's move an especially exciting one. While J-Hope is not the first to attempt a real-time screening, it's still a daring technological move to sell what may be thousands — if not tens of thousands — of tickets for one night and hope everything goes off perfectly. Tickets for the approximately three-hour movie go on sale Friday, May 9, less than a month before the film hits theaters.
J-Hope has a sizable solo catalog with which to create his tour's setlist. He launched his solo career with the mixtape Hope World in 2018, followed it up with the 2022 album Jack in the Box, and just last year, he dropped the EP Hope on the Street Vol. 1.
In 2025 alone, he's reached the Hot 100 with a trio of new tunes. "LV Bag," a collaboration with Don Toliver, Speedy, and Pharrell Williams, came first. J-Hope also fronted both "Sweet Dreams" with Miguel and "Mona Lisa," which helped promote the tour and may be the beginning of another exciting chapter in his solo musical journey, as a part two of his Hope on the Street EP may be in the works.