{"id":174550,"date":"2026-08-27T18:59:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T01:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=174550"},"modified":"2026-08-27T23:31:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T06:31:01","slug":"bts-surpasses-the-backstreet-boys-legendary-record-with-their-arirang-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/bts-surpasses-the-backstreet-boys-legendary-record-with-their-arirang-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS surpasses the Backstreet Boys&#8217; legendary record with their ARIRANG tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent reports reveal that <strong>BTS<\/strong> surpassed the Backstreet Boys&#8217; legendary record with their <strong>ARIRANG tour<\/strong>, becoming the highest-grossing boy group tour in history.<\/p>\n<p>According to ticket office data revealed by <strong>Billboard<\/strong>, the boy group&#8217;s current &#8216;ARIRANG&#8217; World Tour has reached a cumulative gross of <strong>$433.2 million<\/strong> after selling 2.3 million tickets for a total of 38 completely sold-out concerts.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/BTS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BTS<\/a>&#39; &quot;ARIRANG&quot; ($433M*) is officially the highest-grossing tour by a boy group in HISTORY, surpassing the Backstreet Boys&#39; &quot;Black &amp; Blue&quot; ($315M).<\/p>\n<p>*38 shows reported out of 84. More 2027 dates to be announced.<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BTS_twt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BTS_twt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/BANGTAN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BANGTAN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/ARIRANG?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ARIRANG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/%EB%B0%A9%ED%83%84%EC%86%8C%EB%85%84%EB%8B%A8?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\ubc29\ud0c4\uc18c\ub144\ub2e8<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EIlbPo4t91\">pic.twitter.com\/EIlbPo4t91<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BTS BASE (@bts_base_) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bts_base_\/status\/2093079507657732359?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 27, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>These figures manage to surpass the <strong>Backstreet Boys<\/strong>&#8216; impressive record of $315 million in revenue from their successful 2001 <strong>&#8216;Black &amp; Blue&#8217;<\/strong> tour, which held the position of the highest-grossing boy band tour in history for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Now BTS&#8217; tour &#8216;ARIRANG&#8217; has made history by beating this record with a huge difference of $100 million but also officially becoming <strong>the highest-grossing tour of any vocal group and K-Pop act<\/strong> in entertainment history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent reports reveal that BTS surpassed the Backstreet Boys&#8217; legendary record with their ARIRANG tour, becoming the highest-grossing boy group tour in history. According to ticket office data revealed by Billboard, the boy group&#8217;s current &#8216;ARIRANG&#8217; World Tour has reached a cumulative gross of $433.2 million after selling 2.3 million tickets for a total of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":174555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-174550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-bts"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174550","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\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174550"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174560,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174550\/revisions\/174560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}