BTS Beats The Rolling Stones’ Seven-Year Boxscore Record
Categoria: Musica
Arirang World Tour tops the monthly Top Tours chart with more than $125 million.
Por Billboard | 29/06/2026
In April, BTS returned to the Boxscore charts with a vengeance, leading the Top Tours chart for the first time in four years with monthly earnings of more than $75 million. In May, they maintain their crown while leveling up. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, BTS grossed $127.8 million and sold 641,000 tickets over 12 shows between May 2-28, repeating as the month’s highest-grossing and best-selling touring act. Further, the group achieves the biggest monthly gross by a group since the chart began in 2019, surpassing The Rolling Stones ’ $95 million from August 2019 by 35%. This marks BTS’ fourth month at No. 1 on Top Tours, after leading in May 2019 and April 2022, in addition to April of this year. Only five acts have spent more time on top since the chart’s launch in 2019: Bad Bunny , with nine months; Beyoncé , Coldplay , and Elton John , each with seven; and Trans-Siberian Orchestra with five. Of BTS’ four chart-toppers, this is its biggest yet. At $127.8, the group’s May is the fifth biggest monthly gross in the chart’s history, ranked behind three months by Beyoncé and one by Kendrick Lamar & SZA . After opening the Arirang World Tour on top, BTS’ monthly gross increased by 68% from April to May, while attendance surged by 54%. The group’s April schedule mixed three shows in Tampa with stadium dates in Japan and South Korea, but May’s slate was exclusively in North America: nine shows in the United States, plus three in Mexico. Ticket prices are higher across the board in the U.S., and despite South Korea’s hometown advantage, BTS sold more tickets per market in the U.S., with more shows in bigger stadiums. The tour hit a peak in Las Vegas, with 246,000 tickets and $49.5 million at Allegiant Stadium on May 23-24 and 27-28. With ease, those four shows land at No. 1 on Top Boxscores. It’s not the first time that BTS rules the monthly Boxscore recap powered by shows at the Vegas stadium. In April 2022, they made $35 million and sold 200,000 tickets from four shows there, earning the top spot on Top Boxscores, and solely powering a No. 1 finish on Top Tours. Four years later, they increased revenue by 38% and attendance by 23% with the same number of shows at the same stadium. Three shows at Stanford Stadium (Stanford, Calif.), three at Estadio GNP Seguros (Mexico City), and two at Sun Bowl (El Paso, Texas) padded BTS’ May routing. They follow on Top Boxscores at Nos. 2, 3, and 4, respectively. Since Arirang World Tour’s April 9 kickoff, the trek has grossed $204 million and sold 1.1 million tickets. With more than 50 shows left to play in 2026, it will soon be the group’s biggest tour yet, within striking distance of the Love Yourself World Tour’s $213.9 million (2018-19). BTS’ May shows sends the group’s career Boxscore earnings passed the half-billion mark, up to $503.1 million from 3.3 million tickets sold from 87 reported shows. When BTS first led the Top Tours chart, exactly seven years ago, Metallica was in the ru