10 highest grossing K-pop tours of all time

K-pop industry is booming and delivering high grossing world tours every year. Here are top 10 highest grossing K-pop tours for you.

Top 10 highest grossing K-pop tours

We’re living in a world dominated by K-pop idols and groups. Their popularity has increased manifold over a decade or so and made multiple strides in the market by releasing singles and organizing tours and fan-meets across the region. With highest grossing tours, K-pop established itself as one of the most favored and loved genre among the youth and mid aged demography. Today, we’re listing top 10 highest grossing K-pop tours of all time.

1. Blackpink’s BORN PINK

The BORN PINK world tour kicked off last year in Seoul, South Korea and concluded in September 2023 in the same city. It held a total of 66 concerts across 34 cities and attracted about total of 1.8 million audience. Total revenue collected of Blackpink’s tour is about $281,033,955. The girls from the group performed their megahits from debut to recent one like pink venom.

2. BTS’ Love Yourself: Speak Yourself

BTS’ organized Love Yourself: Speak Yourself tour to promote their triology of Love Yourself albums. The tour contributed to BTS’ increasing fame and popularity among the K-pop lovers. More than 2 million people joined the tour with 62 concerts across the cities. BTS bagged a whopping revenue collection of $246,512,484.

3. BIGBANG’s MADE

BIGBANG embarked on their second tour in 2015-16 after three years of hiatus. The experience of the world tour was captured and released in the form of documentary titled “BIGBANG MADE: THE MOVIE.” The group travelled 32 different cities in 13 different countries to host 66 concerts. BIGBANG attracted around 1.5 million fans to their tour and collected $147,192,512 in revenue.

4. TWICE’s Ready To Be

TWICE’s Ready To Be tour started off in the city of Yokohama in April 2023. While concluded with 49 concerts performed in the regions of Asia, North America, South America, Europe and Oceania. However, due to overwhelming demand from the fans, additional shows and concerts were also organized. They made total money of about $141,200,000.

5. TVXQ’s Time: Live Tour

As part of the Time tour, TVXQ organized 18 concerts across cities attracting about 890,000 fans from all over the world. Not only this, additional 30,000 fans watched the concert show in the theatres. TVXQ, also known as Tohoshiniki in Japanese, made large sums of money around $110,000,000.

6. BIGBANG’s 0.TO.10

0.TO.10 tour marked the group’s 10th anniversary and 10th concert. This tour primarily held in Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong attracted more than a million fans across the world. BIGBANG performed 24 concerts in 6 cities and live streamed as well for rest of the fans. They attained a whopping revenue of $104,517,716.

7. TVXQ’s The Secret Code: 4th Live Tour

TVXQ’s The Secret Code: 4th Live Tour was held in Japan. The tour started off in May in Kobe and concluded in July. 2009 in Tokyo. Over the years, TVXQ or Tohoshiniki held tours in Japan many times. They collected a revenue of about $93,200,000 in 26 concerts held in Japan.

8. BIGBANG’s Alive Galaxy Tour

In 2012-13, Alive Galaxy tour was BIGBANG’s first world tour. A total of 48 concerts were held in Asia, Europe, South America and North America. This tour attracted more than 800,000 fans across the world. BIGBANG in their concert collected $92,770,023 as revenue.

9. BTS’ Wings Tour

The Wings tour is BTS’ second highest grossing tour and praised as one of the best K-pop tours in the world. The group performed 40 concerts in 12 countries and more than 550,000 fans joined in to vibe on their music. Additionally, one of the concert released as a film for all global fans to enjoy and experience the tour closely. BTS bagged $86,000,000 in revenue.

10. SEVENTEEN FOLLOW World Tour

SEVENTEEN’s FOLLOW world tour is their third Asia tour started off in July 2023 and finally concluded in May 2024. The 13 member group performed 24 shows in various countries like Japan, Thailand, China and more. The group collected revenue worth $ 87,760,000.