SM Town Live 2025: The Culture, the Future

SM Town Live 2025: The Culture, the Future
Tour by SM Town
	Promotional poster of the tour in Seoul, South Korea
Location	Asia; Europe; North America;
Associated album	2025 SM Town: The Culture, the Future
Start date	January 11, 2025
End date	August 10, 2025
SM Town concert chronology
	; SM Town Live 2023: SMCU Palace; (2023–2024); ; SM Town Live 2025: The Culture, the Future; (2025); ; ;

SM Town Live 2025: The Culture, the Future is an ongoing concert tour by SM Town. The tour kicked off with two shows in Seoul, South Korea, and continued with five additional performances across North America, Europe, and Asia. This tour also commemorates the label’s 30th anniversary.

Background

In November 2024, SM Entertainment announced their then-upcoming anniversary concert, which took place on January 11 and 12, 2025, at the Gocheok Sky Dome.^[1] In December 2024, the international concert dates for London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and Tokyo were announced.^[2]

On November 15, 2024, SM Entertainment announced the lineup of performers for the Seoul shows. The performers include Kangta, BoA, TVXQ!, Super Junior, Taeyeon and Hyo of Girls' Generation, Key and Minho of Shinee, Suho and Chanyeol of Exo, Red Velvet, NCT, Aespa, and Riize.^[3] On December 12, 2024, Taeyeon was announced to have exited the lineup due to creative differences with SM Entertainment.^[4] Later, on January 6, 2025, Wendy of Red Velvet also exited the concerts due to personal reasons.^[5]

Performers

This line-up of performers was taken from the show in Seoul, South Korea on January 11, 2025. It does not represent all shows throughout the tour.

Kangta
BoA
TVXQ!
Super Junior
Hyo
Shinee (Key and Minho)
Exo (Suho and Chanyeol)
Red Velvet
NCT
Aespa
Riize
Naevis
SMTR25
Min Ji-won
ScreaM Records (Hyo, Raiden, and Mar Vista)
SM Jazz Trio
DearALICE
Mytro

Notes

Kangta and BoA only participated in the shows held in Seoul and Tokyo.
Super Junior and Shinee did not participate in the show held in London.
Hyoyeon did not participate in the Mexico City and Los Angeles shows.
Zhou Mi only participated in the Tokyo shows.
Exo member Kai and Hearts2Hearts joined the tour starting from the Mexico City show.
Red Velvet member Wendy did not participated in all tour dates, while Yeri only participated in the Seoul shows.
Min Ji-won, ScreaM Records, SM Jazz Trio, and Mytro only participated in Seoul shows.
DearALICE only participated in the shows held in Seoul and London.

Set lists

Seoul, South Korea (January 11–12, 2025)

Pre-show

Performer(s)	Song(s)
Mytro	"Love Hate" "Bomb Bomb Bomb"
Mar Vista	DJ set
Raiden
Hyo
SM Jazz Trio	Jazz set
Min Ji-won	"Sentimental Love"

Main show

Performer(s)	Song(s)
TVXQ!	"Rising Sun"
SMTR25	"Lucifer" "A Man in Love" "Growl"
BoA	"Hurricane Venus" "Only One" (with Sion)
Naevis	"Sensitive"
Aespa	"Whiplash" "Armageddon"
dearALICE	"Ariana"
Riize	"Impossible" "Boom Boom Bass"
Exo	"The First Snow"
Suho	"1 to 3"
Chanyeol	"Hasta la Vista"
Hyo	"Dessert" (with Giselle and Yangyang)
Key	"Villain" (with Jeno)
Seulgi	"Bad Boy, Sad Girl" (with Sungchan)
Minho	"Because of You" (with Ningning)
NCT Wish	"Wish" "Steady"
NCT Dream	"When I'm with You" "Smoothie"
WayV	"Give Me That" "Frequency"
NCT 127	"Walk" "Fact Check"
Super Junior-M	"At Least I Still Have You"
Minho	"Something About U"
Key	"Gasoline"
Kangta	"Polaris" (with SM Jazz Trio and Jaehee)
TVXQ! Super Junior	"Show Me Your Love" (with Suho, Chanyeol, Johnny, Jungwoo, Chenle, Kun, Ten, Eunseok, Ryo, and Sakuya)
Hyo	"Retro Romance"
Bada	"Just in Love" "Dreams Come True" (with Karina and Winter) "Cosmic" (with Ryeowook)
Tony An Kangta	"Candy" (with NCT Dream) "Full of Happiness" (with Xiaojun, Hendery, Wonbin, Anton, Sion, and Yushi)
Red Velvet	"Cosmic" "Red Flavor"
Super Junior	"Sorry, Sorry" "Devil"
TVXQ!	"Rebel" "Keep Your Head Down"
WayV	"Julliete"
aespa	"Rum Pum Pum Pum"
Riize	"Hug"
Red Velvet	"Run Devil Run"
NCT Dream	"Love Me Right"
Kangta	"Just a Feeling
BoA	"End of a Day"
NCT Wish	"Miracle"
Super Junior	"I Pray 4 U"
NCT 127	"You in Vague Memory"
EXO	"Git It Up!"
TVXQ!	"Psycho"
SM Town	"Hope from Kwangya"

Alterations

BoA performed with Shotaro instead of Sion during the January 12 show.
Chanyeol performed "Back Again" instead of "Hasta la Vista" during the January 12 show.
Hwanhee performed "Sea of Love" with Sohee after Minho's performance during the January 12 show.

Tour dates

List of concert dates
Date	City	Country	Venue	Attendance
January 11, 2025	Seoul	South Korea	Gocheok Sky Dome Beyond Live	40,000^[6]
January 12, 2025	Seoul	South Korea	Gocheok Sky Dome Beyond Live	40,000^[6]
May 9, 2025	Mexico City	Mexico	Estadio GNP Seguros	—
May 11, 2025	Los Angeles	United States	Dignity Health Sports Park	—
June 28, 2025	London	England	Allianz Stadium Twickenham	—
August 9, 2025	Tokyo	Japan	Tokyo Dome	—
August 10, 2025	Tokyo	Japan	Tokyo Dome	—
Total				—

References

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^ Chu, Katherine (December 2, 2024). "SM Entertainment Announces "SMTOWN LIVE 2025"". Business Wire. Archived from the original on April 20, 2025. Retrieved April 20, 2025.
^ Lee, Soo-hyun (November 22, 2024). "'SM타운 라이브 2025 in 서울' 콘서트, 오늘(22일) 티켓팅 시작…라인업 보니" ["SM Town Live 2025 in Seoul" concert, ticketing starts today (22nd)…Looking at the lineup] (in Korean). Top Star News. Archived from the original on April 20, 2025. Retrieved April 20, 2025.
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^ Pyo, Kyung-min (January 7, 2025). "SM's 30th anniversary concert marred by artists' absences". The Korea Times. Archived from the original on April 20, 2025. Retrieved April 20, 2025.
^ Cheon, Son-hwa (January 13, 2025). "'SMTOWN LIVE 2025' 서울 콘서트, H.O.T.부터 연습생까지 총 98인의 아티스트가 펼친 SM 음악 축제" ['SMTOWN LIVE 2025' Seoul Concert, SM Music Festival Performed by a Total of 98 Artists, From H.O.T. to Trainees] (in Korean). Star Daily News. Archived from the original on April 21, 2025. Retrieved April 21, 2025.

[1] Yoon, Seung-jin (November 14, 2024). "SM Entertainment unveils dates, lineup for 'SMTOWN Live 2025' at Gocheok Sky Dome". Korea JoongAng Daily. Archived from the original on April 17, 2025. Retrieved April 17, 2025.

[2] Chu, Katherine (December 2, 2024). "SM Entertainment Announces "SMTOWN LIVE 2025"". Business Wire. Archived from the original on April 20, 2025. Retrieved April 20, 2025.

[3] Lee, Soo-hyun (November 22, 2024). "'SM타운 라이브 2025 in 서울' 콘서트, 오늘(22일) 티켓팅 시작…라인업 보니" ["SM Town Live 2025 in Seoul" concert, ticketing starts today (22nd)…Looking at the lineup] (in Korean). Top Star News. Archived from the original on April 20, 2025. Retrieved April 20, 2025.

[4] Kim, Seung-hye (December 12, 2024). "태연, SMTOWN 2025 불참…탱구 팬들 "보고 싶었는데 아쉽다"" [Taeyeon will not be able to attend SMTOWN 2025...Taengoo fans said, "I missed you. Too bad"] (in Korean). Maeil Business Newspaper. Archived from the original on April 20, 2025. Retrieved April 20, 2025.

[5] Pyo, Kyung-min (January 7, 2025). "SM's 30th anniversary concert marred by artists' absences". The Korea Times. Archived from the original on April 20, 2025. Retrieved April 20, 2025.

[6] Cheon, Son-hwa (January 13, 2025). "'SMTOWN LIVE 2025' 서울 콘서트, H.O.T.부터 연습생까지 총 98인의 아티스트가 펼친 SM 음악 축제" ['SMTOWN LIVE 2025' Seoul Concert, SM Music Festival Performed by a Total of 98 Artists, From H.O.T. to Trainees] (in Korean). Star Daily News. Archived from the original on April 21, 2025. Retrieved April 21, 2025.

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