Hitmaker Vaundy Proves His True Worth Live as Fervor Spreads Beyond Japan
Categoria: Musica
Opening with a two-night run at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan, this large-scale tour spans East Asia, making stops in Seoul, Hong Kong, Fukuoka, and Taipei.
Por Billboard | 18/09/2026
On Sept. 5, Vaundy kicked off his first Asian arena tour entitled Vaundy ASIA ARENA TOUR 2026 “HORO.” Opening with a two-night run at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan, this large-scale tour spans East Asia, making stops in Seoul, Hong Kong, Fukuoka, and Taipei. Every date on this tour — whose title “HORO” means “wandering” in Japanese — sold out the day tickets went on sale. Over the past year, the 26-year-old star became the youngest male solo artist ever to tour Japan’s four major domes with Vaundy DOME TOUR 2026 “SILENCE” — seven shows across four cities (Fukuoka, Tokyo, Osaka, and Sapporo) that drew more than 350,000 fans in total. Having cemented his status as a top artist on Japan’s music scene, Vaundy is now stepping onto the world stage, and anticipation is building for what kind of performance he’ll deliver. Local fans seem to feel the same excitement — tickets for the two-night run at Seoul’s INSPIRE ARENA (with a capacity of roughly 15,000) on Sept. 19 and 20 sold out immediately upon release. As an aside, on a previous visit to Seoul I ran into a fan sporting a hairstyle and outfit almost identical to Vaundy’s. I couldn’t help but strike up a conversation, and sure enough, he turned out to be a huge fan and had even traveled to Japan to see him live. At the previous domestic dome tour, the crowd was full of fans who appeared to have come from all over Asia, and for them, the international trek is truly the event they’ve been waiting for. With this landmark tour underway, let’s take stock of where Vaundy stands today. Since arriving on the scene in 2019 at age 19 with “Tokyo Flash,” Vaundy has been a defining presence with a steady run of hits, and 19 of his songs have surpassed 100 million streams. They range from “Tokyo Flash” itself to “Time Paradox,” the theme song for Doraemon the Movie: Nobita’s Earth Symphony ; “Hadaka no Yusha,” the opening theme for the anime Ranking of Kings ; and “CHAINSAW BLOOD,” the ending theme for the first episode of the anime Chainsaw Man . Through these anime tie-ins, his music has reached listeners outside Japan as well. The comment sections under his music videos on YouTube and the replies on social media are filled with comments in a range of languages, suggesting that Vaundy’s global presence has been growing on the strength of the songs alone. Standing above them all is one of his signature hits, “Kaiju no Hanauta.” Released in May 2020, the track has now topped 1.1 billion cumulative streams, and that number keeps climbing. Written with call-and-response and singalongs in mind from the start, “Kaiju no Hanauta” has become the kind of anthem that whips his live crowds into a frenzy and continues to captivate listeners six years after its release. Vaundy has no shortage of songs like this — another example is “