38 Shows, 2.3 Million Fans: BTS Breaks Beyoncé's Tour Revenue Record

BTS's BTS WORLD TOUR 'ARIRANG' generated approximately $465.8 million in ticket revenue across 38 shows between November 13, 2025 and August 12, 2026, making it the highest-grossing single tour on the planet for the third quarter, according to Pollstar's latest cumulative ticket sales rankings. The total attendance across those dates reached 2,314,140, a number that still has room to grow.

What makes the figure particularly striking is the context: Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter Tour held the top spot for all of 2025 with $407.6 million in sales, a record that BTS cleared with months of the year still on the clock. Pollstar described the run as "unstoppable box-office momentum" and noted that the final numbers haven't been written yet.

Las Vegas leads all cities

The single highest-grossing city on the tour was Las Vegas. Four consecutive nights at Allegiant Stadium in May drew 245,691 fans and generated $66.6 million in ticket revenue on its own, roughly one-seventh of the tour's total haul from a single venue run. It's the kind of number that reflects both the scale of ARMY's appetite for live shows and the strategic weight BTS's team placed on stadium runs in major U.S. markets.

Before Las Vegas, the tour moved through Goyang, Tokyo, Tampa, El Paso, Mexico City, San Francisco, Busan, Madrid, and London, among other stops, a genuinely global spread that explains how the attendance climbed to seven figures.

South America is next

The tour isn't finished. Starting October 2 in Bogotá, Colombia, BTS will play 14 shows across five South American cities: Lima, Santiago, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, and Bogotá. Demand pushed three of those cities, Lima, Santiago, and Buenos Aires, to add an extra date each, which means Pollstar's already-record Q3 figures are almost certainly an undercount of where this tour will eventually land.

Billboard momentum continues

Off the stage, the numbers hold up too. Billboard's chart dated September 26 shows ARIRANG, BTS's fifth studio album, sitting at No. 30 on the Billboard 200 for its 26th consecutive week on the chart. The lead single SWIM climbed one position week-over-week to No. 5 on the Global (excluding U.S.) chart and sits at No. 21 on the Global 200.

For a release deep into its chart run, that kind of sustained positioning signals something beyond first-week hype, the album and the tour are feeding each other in the way only a handful of acts manage at this scale.