​​Concerts and Tours

​​Awards

  1. ​​The “2016 BTS LIVE "The Most Beautiful Moment in Life On Stage: Epilogue in Bangkok” was nominated for Kazz Awards in 2017. [Source]
  1. ​​The “2017 BTS Live Trilogy Episode III: The Wings Tour in Bangkok” was nominated for Kazz Awards in 2018. [Source]
  1. ​​The Wings Tour won “International Show of the Year in Brazil” at the Nickelodeon Brazil Kids' Choice Awards 2017. [Source]
  1. ​​Love Yourself World Tour won the “Concert Category” at the Edaily Culture Awards 2019. [Source]
  1. ​​BTS was the first non-English Act to win “Tour of the Year” at the AMAs 2019. [Source]
  1. ​​Love Yourself: Speak Yourself was nominated for “The Concert Tour of 2019” at the E! People's Choice Awards 2019. [Source]
  1. ​​Love Yourself: Speak Yourself World Tour won “Choice Summer Tour” at the Teen Choice Awards 2019. [Source]
  1. ​​BTS won the 2019 Ticketmaster Touring Milestone Award. (To qualify, an artist must have sold at least one million tickets globally for a tour that concluded in 2019) [Source]
  1. ​​BTS is the first Asian Act to be nominated for the Annual Pollstar Awards. Bang Bang Con was nominated for Best Livestream Event/Virtual Festival at the 32nd Annual Pollstar Awards. [Source]
  1. ​​BTS is the first Asian Act to win the "Best Live Act” Award at the MTV EMAs.
  1. ​​BTS ties with U2 and Ed Sheeran for having the most wins (2 wins) for "Best Live Act" at the MTV EMAs. 
  1. ​​Map of the Soul ON:E is the first Korean concert to win at the Webby Awards 2021. [Source] 
  1. ​​BTS was nominated for the 2nd time in the 2022 Pollstar Awards for “Best Pop Tour” with Permission to Dance on Stage Tour. [Source] [Source]

​​Rankings, Tour Gross and More

  1. ​​BTS has already secured its place in history as one of the top-selling groups of all-time. [Source]
  1. ​​BTS is at #98 in Pollstar’s “Top Touring Artists Of The Pollstar Era (Box Office Grosses)” during the 4 decades of the Pollstar Era, beginning in 1980 through the present. BTS is the only Asian Act in the list. [Source] [Source]
  1. ​​BTS is one of the top-selling acts in the first day tour sales of all time. [Source]
  1. ​​BTS is the First Non-English Act to go #1 in Touring Data’s “Top Touring Artists” Year-End List. [Source] [Source]
  1. ​​According to Huston Powell (Promoter of C3 Presents and the “mastermind” behind lollapalooza), BTS is the most in-demand booking of all time. He said that they’ve never seen artists with their level of pull. [Source]
  1. ​​BTS broke the most attended world tour by an Asian Act with their Love Yourself World Tour. [Source]
  1. ​​"Love/Speak Yourself Tour" is the first concert tour by a Korean artist to gross over $100 and $200 million.
  1. ​​“Permission to Dance On Stage” garnered more than 4M attendees (4,816,400), the most attendance / most tickets sold in any tour / concert series for an Asian / Non-English Act. [Source] [Source] 
  1. ​​BTS has the highest attendance (offline) world tour by an Asian Act with their Love Yourself World Tour with 2.06M attendance (according to BH) (Touringdata’s estimation says it was 1.93M but touringdata is not official site). [Source] [Source] [Source] [Source] [Source] [Source]
  1. ​​According to BH, over 5.5 million fans participated in BTS's LY: Tour (if we include live streaming, cinema viewing and other packaged content like Wembley Stadium VLive paid viewers (140K), Seoul VLive paid viewers (140K) and Seoul theater audience (13,000) etc. [Source]
  1. ​​"Love Yourself Tour" grossed an estimated $246,512,484 with 62 reported shows (not official data). [Source]
  1. ​​Whenever do comparison in terms of Gross, always calculate the gross adjusted for inflation. [Source] [Source] 
  1. ​​According to Pollstar, “PERMISSION TO DANCE ON STAGE” grossed over $75M revenue with 458,677 tickets sold for 11 reported shows. [Source] [Source]
  1. ​​BTS is the first non-English Act to go #1 in the TouringData’s Year-End Top Touring Artists (based on both in-person and virtual concerts). [Source] [Source]
  1. ​​BTS grossed $3,348,500 for 2 sold out shows (22,612 attendance) in Prudential Center USA in March 2017. They even debuted at #161 in the “2017 Year End Top 200 Concert Grosses”. [Source] [Source]
  1. ​​BTS estimated to have recorded nearly $40 million (44.9 billion won) in ticket sales for their Love Yourself World Tour. The number of tickets they sold in NA was similar to artists like Pearl Jam and Bruno Mars. [Source]
  1. ​​BTS is the first non-English Act and the 2nd Artist (after The Rolling Stones) to have solo concerts in the most expensive stadium (SoFi) and the second most expensive stadium (Allegiant) in the world. [Source] [Source] [Source]
  1. ​​It was analyzed that Big Hit Entertainment is the best performer & have the best profits in the history of K-pop history with the success of the world tour of BTS. [Source] [Source]
  1. ​​According to Yuanta Securities Analyst, BTS’s Tour was the first in K-pop history to earn profits in NA/Europe. [Source] [Source]
  1. ​​The BANG BANG CON online concert drew 50.59M viewers globally with a whopping 2.24M people watching simultaneously at one point. [Source] [Source] [Source]
  1. ​​"Bang Bang Con 21" broke “Bang Bang Con” numbers in concurrent viewers with the number of peak simultaneous viewers surpassing 2.7M. [Source] [Source]
  1. ​​BTS is the First Artist to bring over 1M paid viewers (1.33M) for a live-streamed concert with 2021 Muster Sowoozoo. [Source]
  1. ​​BTS’ online fanmeeting “2021 Muster Sowoozoo” broke Map of the Soul ON:E’s viewership record with 1.33 million paid viewers in 195 countries over the course of 2 days, making it the largest global audience ever for a paid virtual concert. Their 2021 MUSTER “Sowoozoo” estimated to generate 80 billion KRW ($76,654,191) in revenue. [Source] [Source] [Source] [Source] [Source]
  1. ​​BTS’ three live concerts in Seoul for “Permission To Dance On Stage - Seoul” attracted 2.46M fans both on and offline with 45,000 audience at Seoul Olympic Stadium, 1.02M viewers online streaming and 1.4M viewers at theaters. [Source] [Source] [Source]
  1. ​​According to SBS Hanbam, the BTS Permission to Dance On Stage - Seoul’s total sales are estimated to be more than 100 billion won. [Source]
  1. ​​BTS’s 2-day online concerts “Map of the Soul ON:E” brought a total of 993,000 concurrent viewers from 191 countries, beating BANG BANG CON: The Live’s numbers. [Source] [Source] [Source] 
  1. ​​According to kmedia, BTS’ BANG BANG CON: The Live concert earnings from ticket sales were estimated at 22 billion won ($18 million), based only on the viewer fees of fan club members alone. Rolling Stone estimated between $19 million and $26 million. [Source] [Source] [Source]
  1. ​​According to analysts, online concert “Map of the Soul ON:E” generated 54 billion won in estimated revenue. [Source] [Source] [Source]
  1. ​​According to Big Hit, BANG BANG CON: The Live brought 756,000 concurrent viewers from a total of 107 regions. [Source] [Source] [Source] [Source]
  1. ​​BTS is the first Asian Act to go #1 in the Pollstar’s LIVE75 Chart. They peaked at #1 on the chart multiple times. [Source] [Source] [Source] [Source]
  1. ​​According to Vividseats [Source] [Source]
​​— Demand for BTS tickets rival that of iconic artists and hottest US pop stars.
​​— Although the K-Pop industry has begun to thrive in the U.S., BTS continues to outsell every other act with their global popularity.
​​— Fans who bought tickets for BTS’ Love Yourself: Speak Yourself showed more diversity in terms of age compared to last year.