Billboard Reveals 10 Highest-Grossing K-Pop Tours Of 2023

Billboard has published a year-end list of the top 10 highest-grossing K-pop tours of 2023!

The list comes alongside Billboard’s overall year-end Boxscore charts, which rank the top tours of 2023 across artists from all genres and countries. The year-end charts are based on figures reported to Billboard for eligible concerts between November 1, 2022 and September 30, 2023.

Six K-pop tours made Billboard’s overall top 100 highest-grossing tours for 2023 (across all genres), and their share of the top 100 (by gross) came out to 5.1 percent—an all-time high for K-pop.

The six artists who made this year’s overall top 100 tours were BLACKPINK (at No. 10), BTS’ Suga (No. 37), TWICE (No. 41), TXT (No. 54), SEVENTEEN (No. 58), and ENHYPEN (No. 81).

Check out the full list of the highest-grossing K-pop tours of the year below!

1. BLACKPINK

Gross: $148.3 million
Tickets Sold: 703,000
Number of Shows: 29
Ranking on All-Genre Top 100: No. 10

2. Suga

Gross: $57.1 million
Tickets Sold: 318,000
Number of Shows: 26
Ranking on All-Genre Top 100: No. 37

3. TWICE

Gross: $54.2 million
Tickets Sold: 345,000
Number of Shows: 18
Ranking on All-Genre Top 100: No. 41

4. TXT

Gross: $46.8 million
Tickets Sold: 379,000
Number of Shows: 27
Ranking on All-Genre Top 100: No. 54

5. SEVENTEEN

Gross: $43.3 million
Tickets Sold: 440,000
Number of Shows: 12
Ranking on All-Genre Top 100: No. 58

6. ENHYPEN

Gross: $33 million
Tickets Sold: 336,000
Number of Shows: 19
Ranking on All-Genre Top 100: No. 81

7. Stray Kids

Gross: $16.1 million
Tickets Sold: 114,000
Number of Shows: 8
Ranking on All-Genre Top 100: N/A

8. ATEEZ

Gross: $13.9 million
Tickets Sold: 103,000
Number of Shows: 10
Ranking on All-Genre Top 100: N/A

9. LE SSERAFIM

Gross: $7.9 million
Tickets Sold: 77,500
Number of Shows: 9
Ranking on All-Genre Top 100: N/A

10. NCT DREAM

Gross: $7 million
Tickets Sold: 36,900
Number of Shows: 4
Ranking on All-Genre Top 100: N/A

Congratulations to all the K-pop artists who made this year’s list!

How many K-pop concerts did you go to in 2023?

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