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BLACKPINK, BTS' Suga, TWICE top highest grossing K-pop tours list in 2023

Published Dec 13, 2023 04:29 am

BLACKPINK, BTS member Suga, TWICE, Tomorrow X Together and Seventeen earned the highest among K-pop concert tours in 2023.

Billboard revealed the Top 10 K-pop Tours in 2023, reporting that “K-pop is the youngest, at least in terms of the global box office. In the last 10 years (excluding COVID-impacted years of 2020-21), there were no K-pop artists on the overall top 100 in 2012-14 and 2016, and the genre took up less than 1% of the overall gross in another three year-end periods.”

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(Clockwise from top) BLACKPINK, BTS' Suga and TWICE (Royal.uk, X)


The top 10 K-pop acts earned a combined $427.6 million from their concert tours in 2023.

BLACKPINK grossed a whopping $148.3 million from 29 shows with 703,000 tickets sold in 2023 to emerge as the No. 1 K-pop act tour.

“BLACKPINK takes the lead among K-pop acts, standing tall as the only Asian-based artist in the all-genre top 10. Jennie, Lisa, Jisoo and Rosé started the year in American arenas before traveling to Europe, Mexico and Australia. They returned to the U.S. for stadium dates in New Jersey, Las Vegas, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Notably, the group’s Asian shows were not reported,” according to Billboard.

With this, BLACKPINK took 10th place among top all-genre tours in 2023.

BTS’ Suga placed second, grossing $57.1 million from 26 shows with 318,000 tickets sold in 2023. He ranked 37th in the all-genre tour rankings.

“After breaking ground and setting Boxscore records as a member of BTS, SUGA struck out on his own with a solo arena tour in the U.S. and Asia. He earned more than $9 million in Los Angeles and the New York area, and sold more than 50,000 tickets in Seoul,” Billboard added.

TWICE bagged third place, earning $54.2 million from 18 shows with 345,000 tickets sold. They ranked 41st in the all-genre tour list.

“TWICE played shows in 18 markets around the world this year, and never grossed less than $2 million. The group was mostly in arenas, but went to stadiums in Atlanta, Los Angeles and New York,” the report stated.

Here are the Top 10 K-pop Tours in 2023, according to Billboard:

1. BLACKPINK - $148.3M / 703K tickets / 29 shows

All-Genre Top 100 Rank: No. 10

2. BTS’ Suga - $57.1M / 318K tickets / 26 shows

All-Genre Top 100 Rank: No. 37

3. TWICE - $54.2M / 345K tickets / 18 shows

All-Genre Top 100 Rank: No. 41

4. TOMORROW X TOGETHER - $46.8M / 379K tickets / 27 shows

All-Genre Top 100 Rank: No. 54

5. Seventeen - $43.3M / 440K tickets / 12 shows

All-Genre Top 100 Rank: No. 58

6. ENHYPEN - $33M / 336K tickets / 19 shows

All-Genre Top 100 Rank: No. 81

7. Stray Kids - $16.1M / 114K tickets / 8 shows

8. ATEEZ - $13.9M / 103K tickets / 10 shows

9. LE SSERAFIM - $7.9M / 77.5K tickets / 9 shows

10. NCT DREAM - $7M / 36.9K tickets / 4 shows

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