Maryland Governor Wes Moore released a welcome video for BTS on 10 August ahead of the K-pop group's first of two shows at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, dancing to their hit "Butter" and greeting the ARMY fanbase. The gesture underscores the scale of BTS's return to major US venues as part of their world tour, with local officials keen to mark the cultural and economic significance of the stadium dates.

The video, featuring Korean subtitles, saw Moore name-check all seven members before urging fans to "make some noise." The Baltimore shows fall within BTS's ongoing world tour supporting their tenth studio album, ARIRANG, which continues to stadiums in Texas, Toronto and Chicago before concluding its North American leg at SoFi Stadium in early September, ahead of further dates in South America, Asia and Australia. The tour follows the group's recent announcement that they will not submit their music for the 69th Grammy Awards, a decision they framed as wanting their music judged without regional or linguistic division, though HYBE clarified it was not an organised boycott.