Top 10 Highest Grossing K-Pop Tours of the Year

Billboard revealed its year-end Boxscore charts beginning in December, ranking the top tours, venues and promoters of 2025. We’re breaking it down further, looking at the biggest live acts, genre by genre. And on Monday (Dec. 15), we continue with K-pop.

Simply put, K-pop has never been stronger on tour than it is right now. The genre represents 7.7% of the year’s top-100 tour grosses, surpassing 5.1% in 2023 and 4% in 2019. It’s worth noting that in 2019, BTS was No. 3 on the all-genre Top Tours chart, and was the only Korean act on that year’s list. This year, absent of one such goliath, K-pop takes up a record-high eight spots in the top 100, doubling last year’s count.

From top to bottom, K-pop’s top 10 artists are up from last year. Last year’s No. 10 act, iTZY, reported $6 million in grosses. This year, the bar has been raised, threefold. The top 10 is rounded out by aespa with $18 million, bookended by two boy-groups who grossed more than $100 million each.

As always, K-pop’s year-end leaderboard is dominated by idol groups. Still, three soloists crack the top 10. Two of them come from BTS, as j-hope and Jin make impact with their first solo headline tours. Plus, genre legend G-Dragon brought in $27 million from just nine reported shows.

Keep reading to check out the 10 highest grossing tours by K-pop acts, according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore. All reported shows worldwide between Oct. 1, 2024, and Sept. 30, 2025, are eligible.