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The Highest-Grossing K-Pop Concert Tours

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BTS's Arirang World Tour has taken a reported $637.5 million from its first 50 shows, nearly double BLACKPINK's Born Pink World Tour at $330 million. Seventeen have four of the 10 places.

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Three BTS members on stage in front of a packed stadium crowd during the Arirang World Tour's European leg
Pictured: BTS on the European leg of the Arirang World Tour, #1 with $637.5 million to date from its first 50 shows.
The 10 highest-grossing K-pop concert tours by reported gross, as of October 11, 2026
Rank Tour Artist Years Gross (US$) Shows Attendance What the gross covers
1Arirang World TourBTS2026–27$637.5M88—To date: first 50 shows (tour still running)12
2Born Pink World TourBLACKPINK2022–23$330.0M661.8MAll 66 shows3
3Love Yourself World Tour (incl. Speak Yourself)BTS2018–19$246.5M622,019,800All 62 shows54
4Right Here World TourSeventeen2024–25$120.9M30842,000Tour total credited to Billboard's midyear chart6
5Follow TourSeventeen2023–24$111.4M28988,141All 28 shows7
6New World TourSeventeen2025–26$88.0M31574,00025 of 31 shows (from Oct. 11, 2025)9
7Hope on the Stage TourJ-Hope2025$79.9M33504,000All 33 shows10
8Agust D Tour 'D-Day'Suga (Agust D)2023$57.2M28320,233All 28 shows11
9Be the Sun World TourSeventeen2022$57.1M29539,872All 29 shows12
10RunSeokjin Ep. TourJin2025$46.1M20287,00018 of 20 shows (Incheon encore not reported)13

Gross is the total ticket revenue in US dollars reported for each tour by South Korean acts, as compiled on Wikipedia from Billboard Boxscore, Pollstar and other box-office reports.1 A tour is ranked only if its gross is a published total for the whole tour or covers at least 75% of its shows. The last column says how many shows each figure covers. The Arirang World Tour is still running, so its figure is the gross to date. "Shows" is the tour's full number of concerts, and attendance matches the shows the gross covers. Left out for incomplete or weakly sourced grosses: Stray Kids' Dominate World Tour (only its 2025 shows reported)14; Twice's This Is For World Tour (24 of 81 shows)15 and Ready to Be World Tour (23 of 51)16; Le Sserafim's Easy Crazy Hot Tour (only shows to September 2025)17; aespa's Synk: Parallel Line (18 of 43)18; G-Dragon's Übermensch World Tour (itemised figures cover 27 of 39 shows)19; Enhypen's Fate World Tour (total credited only to a fan-run tracking site)20; and BLACKPINK's In Your Area World Tour and Tomorrow X Together's Act: Sweet Mirage (totals with no cited source).2122 BLACKPINK's Deadline World Tour and Stray Kids' Maniac World Tour have no published gross.2324

The top 10

#1

Arirang World Tour

$637.5M to date

BTS (방탄소년단) opened the Arirang World Tour on April 9, 2026, in Goyang, South Korea. It is their first tour since the members completed their mandatory military service, and it is booked for more than 88 dates in 34 cities across 23 countries, running into 2027.2

Billboard counted $637.5 million from the first 50 shows, already the 10th-highest gross on Wikipedia's list of all concert tours. Four shows at Allegiant Stadium near Las Vegas took $49.5 million from 246,000 tickets, a record for the venue, and the two nights at the Stade de France outside Paris were the most-attended shows of the band's career.12

#2

Born Pink World Tour

$330.0M

BLACKPINK (블랙핑크) played 66 concerts in 22 countries between October 15, 2022, and September 17, 2023, starting and ending in Seoul. The tour grossed $330 million and drew 1.8 million people.3

That made it the highest-grossing tour ever by a female group, passing the Spice Girls' $78.2 million, and at the time the highest-grossing tour by any Asian act. It ranked 10th on Billboard's 2023 year-end Top 40 Tours chart.3

#3

Love Yourself World Tour

$246.5M

BTS's Love Yourself World Tour began on August 25, 2018, in South Korea. A stadium extension, Love Yourself: Speak Yourself, opened at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, on May 4, 2019, and the tour ended on October 29, 2019, after 62 concerts in 14 countries.4

Its two parts grossed $246.5 million from 2,019,800 tickets. The tour's New York show at Citi Field made BTS the first Korean act to headline a stadium show in the United States, and its $196.4 million in 2019 gave BTS the highest year-end Billboard Boxscore ranking ever for an act that performs mainly in a language other than English.54

#4

Right Here World Tour

$120.9M

Seventeen (세븐틴) began the Right Here World Tour at Goyang Stadium on October 12, 2024, and ended it at Rajamangala National Stadium in Bangkok on February 16, 2025. Eleven of the 13 members performed the 30 shows.6

Wikipedia gives the tour a total of $120.9 million, credited to Billboard's midyear Top Tours chart, with 842,000 people attending in person. The biggest single stop was two nights at Singapore's National Stadium, which took $15.9 million.6

#5

Follow Tour

$111.4M

Seventeen's Follow Tour played only in Asia, from the Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on July 21, 2023, to Nissan Stadium in Yokohama on May 26, 2024, the ninth anniversary of the group's debut. Seventeen were the second K-pop act to perform at Nissan Stadium, after TVXQ.7

Its 28 shows grossed $111.4 million from 988,141 tickets, and Billboard's touring data placed it as the top-grossing K-pop tour of 2023.78

#6

New World Tour

$88.0M (25 of 31 shows)

Seventeen's sixth tour ran from September 13, 2025, to April 5, 2026, starting and ending in Incheon, with 31 shows for 840,000 people. Nine members performed it.9

Billboard's midyear chart credits the 25 shows from October 11, 2025, onward with $88 million from 574,000 tickets. That leaves out two September shows in Hong Kong and the four Incheon shows, so the figure covers 81% of the tour.9

#7

Hope on the Stage Tour

$79.9M

J-Hope (제이홉; real name Jung Ho-seok, 정호석) became the second BTS member to headline a solo tour with Hope on the Stage, his first world tour. It ran from February 28, 2025, in Seoul to June 14, 2025, in Goyang.10

Billboard's 2025 year-end figures credit its 33 shows with $79.9 million from 504,000 tickets.10

#8

Agust D Tour 'D-Day'

$57.2M

Suga (슈가; real name Min Yoon-gi, 민윤기), who also records as Agust D, took his debut album D-Day on his first world tour from April 26, 2023, at UBS Arena in Elmont, New York, to August 6, 2023, in Seoul. Three encore shows at Seoul's KSPO Dome brought it to 28 concerts.11

Its venue-by-venue figures add up to $57.2 million from 320,233 tickets across the United States, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand, Singapore and South Korea.11

#9

Be the Sun World Tour

$57.1M

Seventeen's fourth world tour ran from the Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on June 25, 2022, to Jakarta on December 28, 2022. It was their return to touring after several tours were cancelled during the COVID-19 pandemic.12

It included the group's first shows at Tokyo Dome and Kyocera Dome, and made Seventeen the first K-pop act to perform at the Philippine Arena, the world's largest indoor arena. Its 29 shows grossed $57.1 million from 539,872 tickets.12

#10

RunSeokjin Ep. Tour

$46.1M (18 of 20 shows)

Jin (진; real name Kim Seok-jin, 김석진) became the third BTS member to hold a solo tour with RunSeokjin Ep. Tour, his first. It opened in Goyang on June 28, 2025, visited Japan, the United States, London and Amsterdam, and ended with an encore in Incheon on November 1, 2025.13

The 18 shows before the Incheon encore grossed $46.1 million from 287,000 tickets; no figures have been published for the encore.13

Sources

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