{"id":167398,"date":"2026-05-23T14:40:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T21:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=167398"},"modified":"2026-05-23T14:40:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T21:40:05","slug":"top-10-bts-leads-touring-charts-with-successful-arirang-world-tour-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/top-10-bts-leads-touring-charts-with-successful-arirang-world-tour-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10: BTS leads touring charts with successful ARIRANG World Tour return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BTS<\/strong> made a huge return to the touring world in April 2026 with their highly anticipated<strong> ARIRANG World Tour<\/strong>. The group earned $76.2 million and sold 417,000 tickets from just eight concerts during April, as per Billboard Boxscore. The tour officially started on April 9, 2026, at Goyang Stadium in South Korea and quickly visited more countries, like Japan, the United States, and Mexico. By May 10, 2026, the reported numbers had already reached $124 million and 660,000 tickets sold. Now, BTS is currently leading Billboard\u2019s monthly Top Tours chart with their comeback tour, proving that the 8-member team has untouchable levels of popularity and remains as strong as ever after seven years away from large-scale touring.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BTS WORLD TOUR &amp;apos;ARIRANG&amp;apos; IN JAPAN - ARMY&amp;apos;S MOVIE @ TOKYO\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jEeaWKVu-1o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The success of the concerts follows the release of BTS\u2019 latest album ARIRANG, which gave the boy group another major achievement. The project debuted straight at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and stayed there for three weeks after earning 641,000 equivalent album units during its opening week. Similarly, the project\u2019s main song, \u201cSwim,\u201d also performed strongly worldwide, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and staying on top of the Billboard Global 200 for four weeks. As of now, the single continues to lead the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart for a sixth non-consecutive week as of May 23, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the tour opened with three stadium concerts in Goyang on April 9, 11, and 12, followed by two performances at Tokyo Dome on April 17 and 18. Those shows alone generated more than $35 million in ticket sales. Combined with those strong numbers in Asia, the boy group\u2019s shows in the United States are also showing big commercial power. Billboard reported that BTS has now earned its third No. 1 ranking on the monthly Top Tours chart since 2019, adding another milestone to the group\u2019s comeback year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top 10 Tours according to Billboard Boxscore as of April 2026:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>BTS<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Luke Combs<\/li>\n<li>Bruce Springsteen &amp; The E Street Band<\/li>\n<li>Kanye West<\/li>\n<li>Guns N&#8217; Roses<\/li>\n<li>Phlsh<\/li>\n<li>Romeo Santos &amp; Prince Royce<\/li>\n<li>Cardi B<\/li>\n<li>Alex Warren<\/li>\n<li>Peso Pluma<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BTS made a huge return to the touring world in April 2026 with their highly anticipated ARIRANG World Tour. The group earned $76.2 million and sold 417,000 tickets from just eight concerts during April, as per Billboard Boxscore. The tour officially started on April 9, 2026, at Goyang Stadium in South Korea and quickly visited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":167410,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16,7],"tags":[49],"tmauthors":[3734],"class_list":["post-167398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-kpop","category-news","tag-bts"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167413,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167398\/revisions\/167413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167398"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=167398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}