Idol group B.A.P has left for the U.S. today in order to prepare and begin their 'LIVE ON EARTH PACIFIC' tour.

TS Entertainment stated, "Starting tomorrow, B.A.P will begin their concerts in the U.S. They will start off in L.A. the continue on to San Francisco on May 10, Washington D.C. on May 14 and New York on May 17. They will be visiting 4 of the most popular cities in America."

For this tour, they were invited by Verizon as their sponsor. For each location, they sold around 2500 tickets, making it a total of 10,000 tickets sold for the entire U.S. portion of the tour. There was also protests and requests for them to have their concert at bigger locations, showing the group's immense global popularity.

Not only will they be here for their concert, they will also be holding interviews with popular media such as MTV and Times magazine as well as Billboard and more.

Their agency stated that due to their high rankings on various charts such as number 1 on the Billboard World Albums chart and number 1 on the iTunes hip-hop album chart has allowed them to be of big interest in the U.S.

After their U.S. portion of the tour, they will continue on to Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and more.

Earlier, they held their first solo concert 'LIVE ON EARTH SEOUL' in Korea this past February.

B.A.P is known to be one of the hottest rookie groups and the fastest to hold many records such as fastest solo concert for rookie artists.