The Odd of Love

Taeyeon Concert - 'The Odd of Love'
Asia tour by Taeyeon
Promotional poster of the tour in Seoul
LocationAsia
Associated albumINVU
Start dateJune 3, 2023 (2023-06-03)
End dateAugust 20, 2023 (2023-08-20)
Legs1
No. of shows12
Taeyeon concert chronology
  • The Unseen
    (2020)
  • The Odd of Love
    (2023)

The Odd of Love (stylized as TAEYEON CONCERT - 'The ODD Of LOVE') was the fifth concert tour and the first arena tour headlined by South Korean singer Taeyeon, in support of her third studio album INVU (2022). The tour started in June 2023 in Seoul and finished in August 2023 in Singapore, visit eight countries across East Asia and Southeast Asia. It was her first solo concert in three years since The Unseen in 2020, which was cut short after three shows due to COVID-19.

Background

On November 8, 2022, during Taeyeon gave her acceptance speech for Best Female Solo Artist Award at the 2022 Genie Music Awards ceremony, she announced that she would hold a concert soon.[1] SM Entertainment announced on May 5, 2023, that Taeyeon would hold her first solo concert in three years titled "The Odd of Love" at the KSPO Dome in South Korea, making Taeyeon the first South Korean female artist to headline a concert at the arena both as a soloist and as a girl group's member[a] and the fifth South Korean female soloist to hold a concert at the venue after Patti Kim, BMK, Insooni and IU.[2]

On May 9, 2023, SM announced that Taeyeon would officially start the tour with shows in Hong Kong and Japan.[3][4] Later in June, SM announced that the tour would continue in other Asian countries, including Taiwan, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Singapore.[5] With her shows in Thailand, Taeyeon became the first South Korean female soloist to headline a concert at the Impact Arena, the largest indoor-arena in the country.[6] She also became the first South Korean female soloist to headline concerts in Taiwan's Taipei Arena, Singapore's Indoor Stadium and the second South Korean female soloist to hold a concert at an arena in Japan, following her label mate BoA.[7][8][9]

Commercial performance

Ticket sales

The ticketing sale for concert in Seoul was split into two phases, a fan club pre-sale and a general sale. The fan club pre-sale began on May 12, while the general sale began on May 15. Online reservations could be made on Yes24 Ticket. All tickets are priced ₩154,000.[10] On May 24, SM Entertainment announced that there was an explosive response after tickets opened and all seats for both days were sold out even seats with limited-viewing.[11]

The concert in Seoul was attended by more than 18,000 people,[12] including Girls' Generation's Seohyun, Yoona, Sooyoung, Hyoyeon and Tiffany, Doyoung, Seventeen's Seungkwan, Hoshi, Vernon and Dino, Le Sserafim, (G)I-dle, Aespa's Karina and Winter, Shinee's Key, Minho, and Taemin, Baek A-yeon, Sunday, Jewelry's Kim Eun-jung, Juniel, Son Na-eun, Lovelyz's Yein, Ive's Liz, Gaeul, Leeseo and An Yu-jin, Super Junior's Eunhyuk and Donghae, Hanhae, Code Kunst, Kim Jae-joong, Ahn Bo-hyun and Blackswan's Fatou.[13][14][15]

Super Dome Taiwan recorded over 120,000 people accessing to the ticketing website at the same time and more than 12,000 seats at Taipei Arena were all sold out within 3 minutes. The organizers had to add more seats with limited-viewing and hundreds of people slept overnight from the previous day waiting to buy tickets directly for the seats in this area.[16][17]

On July 16, SM True Thailand announced that all tickets for both shows in Bangkok were sold out and she has achieved a new record by being the first-ever South Korean female soloist to successfully hold a two-day solo concert at Impact Arena.[18][19][20][21] On July 19, DNM Entertainment Philippines stated that all tickets for VIP until upper box B were sold out and unavailable seats would be opened for sale with obstructed view due to the high ticket demand.[22]

On July 29, CK Star Entertainment Singapore announced that all tickets for concert at Singapore Indoor Stadium were fully sold out.[23][24] On August 3, CK Star Entertainment announced that the concert tour in Singapore has been added one more show on August 19 due to receiving a high response.[25][26][27] On August 7, CK Star reported that all tickets for both days in Singapore were fully sold out and this made her the first-ever South Korean female solo artist to successfully hold a two-day solo concert at Singapore Indoor Stadium.[28][29]

Setlist

The following set list is from the concert on June 3, 2023, in Seoul, South Korea, and is not intended to represent all shows throughout the tour.

  1. "INVU"
  2. "Can’t Control Myself"
  3. "Some Nights"
  4. "Set Myself On Fire"
  5. "Siren"
  6. "Cold As Hell"
  7. "Heart"
  8. "Toddler"
  9. "Weekend"
  10. "No Love Again"
  11. "You Better Not"
  12. "Stress"
  13. "Playlist"
  14. "What Do I Call You"
  15. "To The Moon"
  16. "Wildfire"
  17. "My Tragedy"
  18. "Better Babe"
  19. "Four Seasons"
  20. "Timeless"
  21. "Fine"
  22. "I"
  23. "Drawing Our Moments"

Encore:

  2. "Spark"
  3. "Ending Credits"

Notes

  • At the Tokyo shows, "Drawing Our Moments" was replaced with "Voice".
  • Started from the Tangerang show, "Drawing Our Moments" was replaced with "Time Lapse".

Shows

Concert dates
Date City Country Venue Attendance Ref.
June 3, 2023 Seoul South Korea KSPO Dome  18,000 [12]
June 4, 2023
June 10, 2023 Hong Kong China AsiaWorld–Arena 9,000 [30]
June 24, 2023 Taipei Taiwan Taipei Arena  12,000 [31]
July 8, 2023 Tokyo Japan Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium 16,000 [32]
July 9, 2023
July 22, 2023 Tangerang[b] Indonesia Indonesia Convention Exhibition 9,000 [33]
July 30, 2023 Quezon City[c] Philippines Smart Araneta Coliseum  8,000 [34]
August 12, 2023 Pak Kret[d] Thailand Impact Arena 18,000 [35]
August 13, 2023
August 19, 2023 Singapore Singapore Indoor Stadium 18,000 [36]
August 20, 2023
Total 108,000

Personnel

  • Artist: Taeyeon
  • Tour organizers: SM Entertainment, Dream Maker Entertainment, SM True (Thailand), Dyandra Global Entertainment (Indonesia), Super Dome (Taiwan), G Music (Hong Kong), Sunny Side Up Entertainment Asia Limited (Hong Kong), Innotech Media Production (Hong Kong), Dragon Sky Production Limited (Hong Kong), Stars Legend Entertainment (Hong Kong), Richly Media Limited (Hong Kong), Aidou Infinite Entertainment (Hong Kong), DNM Entertainment (Philippines), IN2UNE Entertainment (Philippines), Viu (Singapore) and CK Star Entertainment (Singapore).
  • Ticketing partners: Yes24 Ticket (South Korea), Cityline (Hong Kong), KKTIX (Taiwan), Ticket Board (Japan), Loket (Indonesia), TicketNet (Philippines), Ticketmaster (Singapore) and All Ticket by 7-Eleven (Thailand)

Footnotes

Show details

  1. ^ She previously performed at the venue along with her group Girls' Generation.
  2. ^ Promoted as Jakarta
  3. ^ Promoted as Manila
  4. ^ Promoted as Bangkok

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