Billboard has just released its year-end Boxscore chart, ranking the top music tours of 2023, by global artists. In particular, Billboard divided the Top 10 tours with the highest revenue in the genres Rock, R&B, Latin, Kpop…

With the rapid development of Kpop worldwide, in 2023, Kpop artists and groups have promoted active touring activities again after the pandemic. From Gen 3 groups like Blackpink, TWICE, Seventeen… to Gen 4 groups like TXT, ENHYPEN, Stray Kids, LE SSERAFIM…

In addition, among solo artists, Suga of BTS is the most prominent face when it comes to global tours.

According to Billboard’s report, Blackpink holds the throne with the Born Pink tour achieving the highest revenue in Kpop in 2023. “Born Pink” recorded 148 million USD with 703 thousand tickets sold of 29 recorded performances.

Jennie, Lisa, Jisoo and Rosé started the new year at arenas in the US, before traveling to Europe, Mexico and Australia. They returned to the US to hold concerts at stadiums in New Jersey, Las Vegas, San Francisco and Los Angeles. In Billboard’s statistics, there are no Born Pink concerts in Asia.

Billboard said that Blackpink is not only ranked Top 1 in Kpop tour revenue, but is also the only Asian artist in the Top 10 highest-grossing tours of 2023 of all genres (Billboard ranked the top 100 tours). ).

In fact, Blackpink’s Born Pink tour had a total of 66 shows. According to Touring Data, Blackpink grossed 260.59 million USD, with 1.48 million tickets, through 56/66 reported performances.

Born Pink set the record for the highest-grossing tour in the history of a global girl group. Born Pink is the first tour by an Asian female artist to sell more than 1 million tickets.

Blackpink is the group with the highest-grossing concert in history. Those were two concert nights at Foro Sol Mexico Stadium on April 26-27, 2023, reaching 9.98 million USD in revenue per show (Total revenue for 2 shows was 19,978,283 USD, with 113,498 spectators).

Blackpink is the artist with the highest-grossing Asian concert of all time, with 9.226 million USD earned from the Born Pink concert held at Singapore National Stadium on May 13, 2023.

Blackpink is currently the Kpop girl group having a concert in Asia with the largest attendance (Bukit Jalil Stadium, Kuala Lumpur – 62,642 tickets) and highest revenue (concert at Singapore National Stadium). collected 9.226 million USD in ticket revenue).

Ranked 2nd after Blackpink is Suga of BTS. According to Billboard, Suga’s D-Day solo tour through North America and Asia reached 57.1 million USD in revenue, through 318 thousand tickets, of 26 performances.

Suga is the only Kpop solo artist in the Top 10 Kpop tours. In addition, D-Day Tour ranked 37th in the global tour revenue ranking of all genres in 2023.

The Kpop artist with the 3rd highest-grossing tour this year is group TWICE.

Billboard said, TWICE performed in 18 markets around the world this year and never earned less than 2 million USD. The group mainly performs in arenas, but has also had performances in many stadiums in the US such as Atlanta, Los Angeles, and New York.

According to Billboard, the biggest tour of TWICE’s career – Ready to Be – earned 54.2 million USD thanks to 345 thousand tickets sold, from 18 recorded performances.

The total number of concerts of Ready to Be Tour is 45 nights, currently Touring Data has announced the revenue of 28 concerts with 78.95 million USD, attracting 596 thousand spectators.