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The Highest-Grossing K-Pop Concert Tours

The 10 K-pop concert tours with the biggest reported ticket sales. BTS’s Arirang World Tour, still on the road, leads with $637.5 million from its first 50 shows, about twice BLACKPINK’s Born Pink total of $330 million.

BTS on the European leg of the Arirang World Tour, from BANGTANTV's tour sketch video

Pictured: BTS on the European leg of the Arirang World Tour, #1 with $637.5 million from its first 50 shows.

Rank Tour Artist Group / Soloist Gross (US$) Shows Shows in the gross Gross per show Attendance Years Status
1Arirang World TourBTSGroup$637.5M88+ plannedFirst 50$12.8MNot reported2026–27Ongoing
2Born Pink World TourBLACKPINKGroup$330.0M66All 66$5.0M1.8 million2022–23Finished
3Love Yourself World Tour (incl. Speak Yourself)BTSGroup$246.5M62All 62$4.0M2,019,8002018–19Finished
4Right Here World TourSeventeenGroup$120.9M30All 30$4.0M842,0002024–25Finished
5Follow TourSeventeenGroup$111.4M28All 28$4.0M988,1412023–24Finished
6New World TourSeventeenGroup$88.0M3125 of 31$3.5M574,0002025–26Finished
7Hope on the Stage TourJ-HopeSoloist$79.9M33All 33$2.4M504,0002025Finished
8Agust D Tour ‘D-Day’Suga (Agust D)Soloist$57.2M28All 28$2.0M320,2332023Finished
9Be the Sun World TourSeventeenGroup$57.1M29All 29$2.0M539,8722022Finished
10RunSeokjin Ep. TourJinSoloist$46.1M2018 of 20$2.6M287,0002025Finished

How this list works. Tours by South Korean acts are ranked by their reported gross: the money taken from ticket sales, in US dollars, as reported at the time and not adjusted for inflation. The figures come from Billboard Boxscore, Pollstar and other box-office reports. A tour only makes the list if its gross is a published total for the whole tour or covers at least three quarters of its shows. “Shows” is the full length of the tour, and “Shows in the gross” says how many of those concerts the figure actually covers. Attendance covers the same shows as the gross. The Arirang World Tour is still running, so its gross and its show count will both grow. “Gross per show” is RList’s own sum: the gross divided by the shows it covers. On that measure the Arirang tour takes about $12.8 million a night, two and a half times Born Pink’s $5 million. Several big tours are left out because only part of their gross has been published or the total has no solid source: Stray Kids’ Dominate World Tour, Twice’s This Is For and Ready to Be tours, Le Sserafim’s Easy Crazy Hot Tour, aespa’s Synk: Parallel Line, G-Dragon’s Übermensch World Tour, Enhypen’s Fate World Tour, BLACKPINK’s In Your Area World Tour and Tomorrow X Together’s Act: Sweet Mirage. BLACKPINK’s Deadline World Tour and Stray Kids’ Maniac World Tour have no published gross at all.[17] Where the data comes from: the rows and figures are from DabPop’s ranking of the highest-grossing K-pop concert tours (data as of October 11, 2026), which credits each figure to its source.[1] For updates as the Arirang tour goes on, see the ranking there.

The Top 10

#1

Arirang World Tour — BTS, $637.5 million so far

The Arirang World Tour is BTS’s first tour since all seven members finished their military service. It opened in Goyang, South Korea, on April 9, 2026, and more than 88 dates in 34 cities and 23 countries are planned, running into 2027.[3] Billboard counted $637.5 million from the first 50 shows.[2] In August alone, 12 stadium shows in North America took $171.7 million, the second-biggest month in Boxscore history after Beyoncé’s August 2023. That pushed BTS past $500 million on a single tour, the first pop group to get there; the six acts that did it before were all rock bands, among them the Rolling Stones and U2.[4] Four nights at Allegiant Stadium near Las Vegas took $49.5 million from 246,000 tickets, the most for any concert run at the stadium since it opened in 2020.[3] The video is BTS’s own sketch film from the European leg.

#2

Born Pink World Tour — BLACKPINK, $330.0 million

BLACKPINK’s second world tour began in Seoul on October 15, 2022, and came back there for its last show on September 17, 2023. In between, the four members played 66 concerts in 22 countries to 1.8 million people.[5] Its $330 million was more than four times the Spice Girls’ $78.2 million, the previous record for a female group, and for a time it was also the biggest tour by any Asian act. It finished 10th on Billboard’s 2023 year-end Top 40 Tours chart.[5] The video is the official trailer for the tour’s encore leg in North America.

#3

Love Yourself World Tour — BTS, $246.5 million

This tour began in Seoul on August 25, 2018. In 2019 it moved up to stadiums under a new name, Love Yourself: Speak Yourself, starting at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, on May 4. It closed on October 29, 2019, after 62 concerts in 14 countries.[6] Both parts together sold 2,019,800 tickets for $246.5 million.[7] Its October 2018 show at Citi Field in New York made BTS the first Korean act to headline a US stadium. The $196.4 million BTS grossed in 2019 was the highest year-end Boxscore total ever for an act that sings mostly in a language other than English.[6][7]

#4

Right Here World Tour — Seventeen, $120.9 million

Seventeen are a 13-member group, and four of the 10 tours on this list are theirs. Right Here opened at Goyang Stadium on October 12, 2024, and ended at Rajamangala National Stadium in Bangkok on February 16, 2025. Eleven of the members took part in its 30 shows.[8] The tour’s total of $120.9 million is credited to Billboard’s midyear Top Tours chart, with 842,000 people in the seats. Its biggest stop was two nights at Singapore’s National Stadium, worth $15.9 million.[8] The video is a live clip of “Water” from the opening shows in Goyang.

#5

Follow Tour — Seventeen, $111.4 million

The Follow Tour never left Asia. It started at the Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on July 21, 2023, and finished at Nissan Stadium in Yokohama on May 26, 2024, nine years to the day after Seventeen’s debut. Only one K-pop act, TVXQ, had played that stadium before them.[9] Its 28 shows sold 988,141 tickets for $111.4 million, and Billboard ranked it the top-grossing K-pop tour of 2023.[9][10] Per show it earned almost exactly the same as BTS’s Love Yourself tour, at about $4 million a night.

#6

New World Tour — Seventeen, $88.0 million (25 of 31 shows)

Seventeen’s sixth tour started and ended in Incheon, running from September 13, 2025, to April 5, 2026. Nine members played its 31 shows, which drew 840,000 people in all.[11] Billboard’s midyear chart only counts the 25 shows from October 11, 2025, onward, which took $88 million from 574,000 tickets. The two September shows in Hong Kong and the four in Incheon are not in that figure, so the real total is higher.[11] The video is a live clip of “Thunder” from the Incheon shows.

#7

Hope on the Stage Tour — J-Hope, $79.9 million

J-Hope, born Jung Ho-seok, was the second BTS member to headline a solo tour. Hope on the Stage, his first world tour, ran from February 28, 2025, in Seoul to June 14, 2025, in Goyang.[12] Billboard’s 2025 year-end figures credit its 33 shows with $79.9 million from 504,000 tickets, the highest gross on this list for a solo act.[12][13] Five of the 10 tours here belong to BTS or one of its members.

#8

Agust D Tour ‘D-Day’ — Suga, $57.2 million

Suga, born Min Yoon-gi, records his solo music as Agust D. This tour, built around his album D-Day, was the first solo world tour by a BTS member. It opened at UBS Arena in Elmont, New York, on April 26, 2023, and ended in Seoul on August 6, 2023, after three encore nights at the KSPO Dome made it 28 shows in all.[14] Added up show by show across the US, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand, Singapore and South Korea, it took $57.2 million from 320,233 tickets.[14]

#9

Be the Sun World Tour — Seventeen, $57.1 million

Be the Sun was Seventeen’s first tour after the COVID-19 pandemic forced them to cancel several others. It ran from the Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on June 25, 2022, to Jakarta on December 28, 2022.[15] Along the way Seventeen played Tokyo Dome and Osaka’s Kyocera Dome for the first time, and became the first K-pop act to perform at the Philippine Arena, the largest indoor arena in the world. Its 29 shows sold 539,872 tickets for $57.1 million, just $0.1 million behind Suga’s tour.[15]

#10

RunSeokjin Ep. Tour — Jin, $46.1 million (18 of 20 shows)

Jin, born Kim Seok-jin, became the third BTS member to tour on his own. His first solo tour opened in Goyang on June 28, 2025, went on to Japan, the United States, London and Amsterdam, and ended with an encore in Incheon on November 1, 2025.[16] The 18 shows before the encore took $46.1 million from 287,000 tickets. No figures have been published for the Incheon encore, so it is not counted.[16]

K-pop Concert Tours Music Box Office Records

Sources

  1. DabPop, “The Highest-Grossing K-Pop Concert Tours” (data as of October 11, 2026; source of every row and figure in the table, each credited there to Billboard Boxscore, Pollstar or other box-office reports as compiled on Wikipedia) — https://dabpop.co/posts/highest-grossing-k-pop-concert-tours.
  2. Billboard, monthly Boxscore report of September 30, 2026 (Arirang World Tour, $637.5 million from its first 50 shows, as credited on Wikipedia’s list of highest-grossing concert tours) — https://www.billboard.com/pro/bts-the-weeknd-monthly-boxscore-report/; Wikipedia, “List of highest-grossing concert tours” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_concert_tours.
  3. Wikipedia, “Arirang World Tour” (dates, cities, Allegiant Stadium figures) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arirang_World_Tour; Billboard, “BTS Beats the Rolling Stones’ Seven-Year Boxscore Record” — https://www.billboard.com/pro/bts-boxscore-record-rolling-stones/.
  4. Korea JoongAng Daily, “BTS becomes first pop act to gross $500 million on single tour” — https://www.koreajoongangdaily.com/entertainment/bts-becomes-first-pop-act-to-gross-500-million-on-single-tour/12901189; The Korea Times, “BTS becomes 1st pop group to surpass $500 mil. in tour ticket sales” (October 1, 2026; August’s 12 shows, $171.7 million) — https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/entertainment/k-pop/20261001/bts-becomes-1st-pop-group-to-surpass-500-mil-in-tour-ticket-sales.
  5. Wikipedia, “Born Pink World Tour” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_Pink_World_Tour.
  6. Wikipedia, “Love Yourself World Tour” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Yourself_World_Tour.
  7. Wikipedia, “List of BTS live performances” (combined Love Yourself and Speak Yourself gross and attendance) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BTS_live_performances.
  8. Wikipedia, “Right Here World Tour” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_Here_World_Tour.
  9. Wikipedia, “Follow Tour” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Follow_Tour.
  10. Wikipedia, “List of Seventeen live performances” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Seventeen_live_performances.
  11. Wikipedia, “New World Tour” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Tour.
  12. Wikipedia, “Hope on the Stage Tour” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_on_the_Stage_Tour.
  13. Sports Kyunghyang, “HYBE Achieves ‘Big 4’ in Global Concerts” (Billboard’s 2025 year-end tour figures for HYBE acts) — https://sports.khan.co.kr/en/article/202512120832547.
  14. Wikipedia, “D-Day Tour” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Day_Tour.
  15. Wikipedia, “Be the Sun World Tour” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_The_Sun_World_Tour.
  16. Wikipedia, “RunSeokjin Ep. Tour” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RunSeokjin_Ep._Tour.
  17. Tours left out, as listed by DabPop[1]: Wikipedia, “Dominate World Tour” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominate_World_Tour; “This Is For World Tour” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_For_World_Tour; “Ready to Be World Tour” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready_to_Be_World_Tour; “Easy Crazy Hot Tour” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy_Crazy_Hot_Tour; “Synk: Parallel Line” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synk:_Parallel_Line; “Übermensch World Tour” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cbermensch_World_Tour; “List of Enhypen live performances” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Enhypen_live_performances; “In Your Area World Tour” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Your_Area_World_Tour; “List of Tomorrow X Together live performances” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tomorrow_X_Together_live_performances; “Deadline World Tour” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadline_World_Tour; “Maniac World Tour” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maniac_World_Tour.