'Best Band of the 21st Century' Maroon 5 to Return to South Korea After 3 Years… Korean Dates Set for January

Returning with a new release featuring BLACKPINK’s Lisa… The stature of a ‘top band of the 21st century’ to be proven at KINTEX

Global pop-rock band ‘Maroon 5’ has confirmed a solo show in South Korea on Jan. 27 next year at ‘KINTEX Hall 1’ in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province. According to the event organizer ‘Live Nation Korea’, this performance is a meaningful chance to reconnect with Korean fans about three years after March 2024.

Led by frontman ‘Adam Levine’, ‘Maroon 5’ has reshaped the landscape of pop music since debuting in 2002 with its studio album ‘Songs About Jane’. Its polished sound—crafted by precisely cross-breeding rock and R&B—produced countless mega-hit singles such as ‘Makes Me Wonder’, ‘Moves Like Jagger’, and ‘One More Night’, sweeping to the top of the U.S. Billboard Mainstream Single Chart ‘Hot 100’.

In particular, released in 2012, ‘One More Night’ pushed Psy’s ‘Gangnam Style’, which had sparked a worldwide craze at the time, aside to No. 2 and held on to the No. 1 spot on the Billboard chart, leaving a strong impression on South Korean audiences. The band has, to date, accumulated more than 110 million album sales and over 34 billion streams of ‘Spotify’. U.S. music outlet ‘Billboard’ spotlighted their overwhelming performance, inducted them as “the best band and No. 11 artist of the 21st century,” and recognized their musical authority.

Continuously evolving, ‘Maroon 5’ once again pursued a bold musical transformation with its last studio album, the eighth release ‘Love Is Like’. Above all, the track ‘Priceless’ features global artist ‘BLACKPINK’s Lisa’, sparking an explosive response from music fans around the world. In South Korea, a key stop on next January’s Asia tour that kicks off with Taiwan, attention is focused on how these artists will ultimately overwhelm audiences with distinctive stage direction and live performances.