We Are Here World Tour, also known as Monsta X World Tour: We Are Here, is the third worldwide concert tour by the South Korean boy group Monsta X following their successful and sold out world tour for the previous year The Connect World Tour. The tour started on April 13, two months after the release of the group's second Korean-language studio album Take.2 We Are Here, kicking off in Seoul, and then visiting twelve more countries including Thailand, Australia, Malaysia, Spain, Netherlands, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, United States, and Japan.
Background Asia In March, their third world tour was announced, including eighteen cities, having the first show held in Seoul at the SK Olympic Handball Gymnasium located at Seoul Olympic Park on April 13 and 14. On March 13, Starship Entertainment revealed that the tickets for their two days Seoul concert had sold out within seventy seconds upon the release on March 12 for four consecutive years.
Before the concert on June 1 in Bangkok, the group held a press conference, in front of the local media in Thailand, and delivered some news about their album activities, their third world tour, and their plans for the future. About seventy media outlets, including some of the local TV, newspapers, magazines, and internet news, gathered at the press conference room to cover their world tour performance, and about a hundred reporters. In particular, Rueng Lao Chao Nee of Thai terrestrial TV Channel 3, Channel 7, and Channel 9, and national broadcaster NBT visited the conference room and competed for coverage. In addition, many of the influential daily newspapers such as Thairath, Daily News, Naewna, and Manager Daily, which are called as the most influential newspapers in the country, participated and showed off the power of the global trend.
On June 22, Starship Entertainment announced that the group member Wonho will not be attending the concert in Malaysia due to the loss of his passport and could not enter Malaysia.
Australia It was Monsta X's first time to have a world tour in Australia. They performed at ICC Sydney Theater in Sydney on June 5 and at Margaret Court Arena in Melbourne on June 8.
Europe After the tour in Australia, the group headed to Europe. Starting with the concert held at Palacio Vistalegre in Madrid on June 29, Monsta X performed at AFAS Live in Amsterdam on July 3, La Seine Musicale in Paris on July 6, SSE Arena Wembley in London on July 9, and ending it at Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin on July 13.
In Europe, the concert brought the group media attention, including attending and performing on a famous local morning TV show Good Morning Britain.
Americas Monsta X held the tour around the United States of America which started on July 25 at Verizon Theatre in Dallas and ended on August 10 at Staples Center in Los Angeles. During their stay, they had sold-out shows and interviews, with local and nationwide TV programs, such as Good Morning America and Jimmy Kimmel Live!, broadcast on ABC, magazines such as Billboard, Forbes, and Chicago Tribune, which are all influential media outlets in the United States, as well as internet and radio shows such as 102.3 KIIS-FM's Jojo on the Radio and iHeartRadio's affiliated channels.
Critical reception Sarah Deen of Metro gave them and described the tour as "upgraded show that was part concert and part rave", all fierce but with what felt like "a new-found confidence". Deen also commended their more "mature and experimental sound" that brought life into their stages.
Impact Monsta X had conducted various live broadcasts on Naver V Live, including a coverage of their scheduled performance at the Staples Center, which annually hosted the Grammy Awards and had featured performances by renowned artists.
Monsta X also became the first K-pop artist to appear on a live broadcast of the morning news program Good Morning Britain, of the British ITV channel, drawing the attention of global fans.
Monsta X was the first Korean artist to participate and appeared in the popular American animation We Bare Bears, and this episode was made through communication between Daniel Chong and their fans club. In particular, through the broadcast, the group directly dubbed English with their own voices, adding a sense of reality to the sitcom, which was broadcast in about 200 countries around the world, which received a lot of attention from fans around the world as well as local fans.
Setlist
INTRO VCR "Shoot Out" "Hero" "Trespass" MENT "Party Time" "Play It Cool" MENT "Miss You" "Mohae" "Jealousy" VCR "Myself" of Bazzi – Minhyuk, Kihyun, and Hyungwon "SamBakJa" (Triple Rhythm) – Joohoney and I.M "Mirror" – Shownu and Wonho MENT "Honestly" "I'll Be There" "I Do Love U" "White Sugar"
MENT "No Reason" VCR "Myself" "Who Do U Love?" "Dramarama" "Spotlight" MENT "Oh My" "Special" "Fallin'" MENT "Alligator" DJ H.One Stage Set "Rodeo" ENDING MENT "By My Side"
Notes: included in the Seoul setlist only included in the International setlist only Japan had a different setlist which included Japanese songs
Tour dates + List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue and attendance Date City Country Venue Attendance Asia April 13, 2019 Seoul South Korea SK Olympic Handball Gymnasium 10,000 April 14, 2019 June 1, 2019 Bangkok Thailand Thunder Dome Oceania June 5, 2019 Sydney Australia ICC Sydney Theater rowspan="2" June 8, 2019 Melbourne Margaret Court Arena Asia June 22, 2019 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Malawati Indoor Stadium 5,000 Europe June 29, 2019 Madrid Spain Palacio Vistalegre rowspan="5" July 3, 2019 Amsterdam Netherlands AFAS Live July 6, 2019 Paris France La Seine Musicale July 9, 2019 London United Kingdom SSE Arena Wembley July 13, 2019 Berlin Germany Mercedes-Benz Arena South America July 19, 2019 São Paulo Brazil Espaço Das Américas North America July 21, 2019 Mexico City Mexico Teatro Metropólitan rowspan="6" July 25, 2019 Dallas United States Verizon Theatre July 27, 2019 Houston Smart Financial Centre July 30, 2019 Atlanta Fox Theatre August 3, 2019 New York City Hulu Theater August 6, 2019 Chicago Rosemont Theatre August 10, 2019 Los Angeles Staples Center 9,155 Asia August 21, 2019 Chiba Japan Makuhari Event Hall 32,000August 22, 2019 September 3, 2019 Osaka Osaka-jō HallSeptember 4, 2019
Boxscore VenueCityTickets sold / availableGross revenueStaples CenterLos Angeles9,155 / 9,985 (91.7%)$1,103,392
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