Over the years, K-pop has spread its influence outside of Korea and solidified its position as a major music genre all across the globe. Now, K-pop artists are able to expand their stage and perform outside of Korea in numerous countries.
With more and more K-pop artists touring globally, overseas concerts have become the norm. And now, K-pop artists' concert tours easily gather thousands of audiences, even millions of fans.
So here are the biggest global tours.
1. BTS - Love Yourself tour (2018-2019)
Number of attendees: about 2.02 million
2. Big Bang - MADE Tour (2015-2016)
Number of attendees: about 1.5 million
3. TVXQ - Circle / Begin again Japan Tour (2017-2018)
Number of attendees: about 1.05 million
4. EXO - The EXO'luXion (2015-2016)
Number of attendees: about 760,000
5. Seventeen - Be the Sun (2022)
Number of attendees: about 600,000
6. Super Junior - Super Show 6 (2014-2015)
Number of attendees: about 550,000
7. TWICE - Twicelights / Dreamday Japan tour (2019-2020)
Number of attendees: about 470,000
(Currently ongoing global tours)
BLACKPINK - Born Pink Tour (2022-2023)
Expected number of total attendees: about 1.5 million
Stray Kids - MANIAC (2022-2023)
Expected number of total attendees: about 500,000
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Unfortunately, number of attendees and venue size aren’t consequences of quality but only of popularity. In K-pop, popularity and success isn’t synonymous of talent. Just look at Blackpink shows, huge numbers on expensive tickets, but they got on controversies over and over again due to lackluster performances, lack of synchronization, lip synching, lack of energy on stage and laziness. People complained a lot about that, but I think those people just didn’t know them well enough and thought “Hey, these girls are popular, their show is expensive, so they must be good”, but ended disappointed on what they got. They should have done their research before spending hundreds of dollar on a concert. They were paying to see one of the most popular K-pop group, and that’s all they can offer.
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