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K-Pop Dominates Billboard: 7.7% of 2025 Tour Grosses

12/16/2025

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Billboard released its 2025 Boxscore charts, showing K-pop at 7.7% of top-100 tour grosses (5.1% in 2023; 4% in 2019).
K-pop secured eight spots in the top 100, up from four last year.
The top-10 K-pop artists grew, with iTZY earning $6 million last year and this year’s top acts surpassing $100 million each.
J-hope and Jin from BTS led solo tours, while G-Dragon grossed $27 million from nine shows.

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Billboard released its 2025 Boxscore charts, showing K-pop at 7.7% of top-100 tour grosses (5.1% in 2023; 4% in 2019).
K-pop secured eight spots in the top 100, up from four last year.
The top-10 K-pop artists grew, with iTZY earning $6 million last year and this year’s top acts surpassing $100 million each.
J-hope and Jin from BTS led solo tours, while G-Dragon grossed $27 million from nine shows.