On Monday, December 11, Billboard published the top 10 highest-grossing K-Pop tours of 2023, and the phenomenal quartet BLACKPINK has just proved they’re still in the area!
According to Billboard, the official figures were recorded data between November 1, 2022 to September 30, 2023.
Highest grossing K-Pop touring acts in 2023 (Billboard Boxscore):
1⃣ #BLACKPINK — $148M
2⃣ #SUGA — $57M
3⃣ #TWICE — $54M
4⃣ #TOMORROWXTOGETHER — $47M
5⃣ #SEVENTEEN — $43M
6⃣ #ENHYPEN — $33M
7⃣ #STRAYKIDS — $16M
8⃣ #ATEEZ — $14M
9⃣ #LESSERAFIM — $8M
🔟#NCTDREAM — $7M@BLACKPINK… pic.twitter.com/kBLPHTblk8— World Music Awards (@WORLDMUSICAWARD) December 12, 2023
With a whopping $148.3 Million gross for 29 shows, the quartet topped the charts with their BORN PINK World Tour. According to the reports, the group composed of Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé, and Lisa have sold over 703,000 worldwide. With this, the “Shut Down” singers easily clinched the first spot in the list for the K-pop category.
Moreover, BLACKPINK is also the only Asian act in the Top 10 of the All-Genre Top 100 Billboard List. In the global list, the group from YG Entertainment ranked 10th.
Notably, this data only covers their arena and stadium performances across America, Europe, Mexico, and Australia. Since the group’s Asian stops were not reported, fans are claiming that the numbers should be higher for the group.
Aside from BLACKPINK, here are the other acts who made it to the list:
Meanwhile, Suga of BTS placed second with his SUGA Agust D world tour. Based on the reports, it earned $57.1 Million gross in 26 shows. Interestingly, Suga sold over 318,000 tickets for his first tour as a solo artist. What makes this achievement even more impressive is Suga is the only solo act to be part of the list.
Following the two acts, K-pop groups TWICE, TOMORROW X TOGETHER, and SEVENTEEN took home the third, fourth, and fifth spots respectively. As for TWICE, the nine-piece act garnered a total of $54 Million in gross for 18 shows of their Born To Be World Tour. TXT and SEVENTEEN, both under HYBE LABELS, also earned around $46.8 Million and $43.3 Million in gross each.
![[SPECIAL VIDEO] SEVENTEEN(세븐틴) - Left & Right @SEVENTEEN TOUR ‘FOLLOW’ TO JAPAN](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dDOcBJpPLuo/hqdefault.jpg)
Furthermore, groups from the 4th generation also took over for the rest of the list. Also under HYBE LABELS, ENHYPEN placed 6th with a $33 Million gross for 19 shows. Next are boy groups Stray Kids and ATEEZ with $16.1 Million gross and $13.9 Million gross, respectively.
Only three girl groups made it to the list. In the ninth place are “Unforgiven” singers LE SERRAFIM who secured the spot with their first world tour “FLAME RISES” having garnered $8 Million gross.
Closing off the top 10 list is SM Entertainment’s NCT DREAM earning $7 Million gross and selling over 36,900 tickets for only four shows.
Congratulations to all groups included in the list!
Featured image: The quartet poses during their ‘Born Pink’ encore concert in Seoul. Credit: Facebook/BLACKPINK