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Posted by eottoke13,183 pts Friday, August 2, 2019

Surpasses Ed Sheeran, BTS tops Billboard chart regarding tour gross


BTS grossed 24,3 billion won from 4 concerts within "LOVE YOURSELF: SPEAK YOURSELF - JAPAN EDITION" tour.

With the announcement of Billboard Hot Tours chart of the week to August 3 (statistics from July 23 to July 29), Billboard revealed that BTS has collected a total of 20,318,927 USD and sold a total of 208,707 tickets from 4 concerts held in Japan from July 6 to July 14.

Following BTS, 2nd place went to Ed Sheeran with the profit from the concert in Romania and the Czech Republic of 14,439,750 USD. Following positions, in turn, belonged to Michael Bublé, Hugh Jackman, Paul McCartney, Billy Joel, Elton John, Shawn Mendes, Def Leppard, and Jennifer Lopez.

Billboard reported, "BTS is back on top of Billboard’s Hot Tours recap with reports from four Japanese shows in July. The seven Seoul superstars grossed a combined 20.3 million, according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore."

BTS successfully ended 4 concerts with 210,000 fans at Yanmar Stadium Nagai, Osaka in 2 days July 6~7 and Ecopa, Shizuoka in 2 days July 13~14.

If including the profits from the 'Speak Yourself' concerts that took place with great success at many locations, typically the US, on the above numbers, the total amount collected is 99.3 million USD. BTS set a ticket sales record of all time after closing 8 shows in May. The group also held concerts in London (England) and Paris (France) in June. After that, the boys continued to write their names in 2nd and 3rd rank on Boxscore when holding concerts in Osaka and Shizuoka in turn on July 6 and 7, July 13 and 14.

Billboard continued to explain, "All eight engagements on the tour have placed in the top 10 of Billboard’s Boxscore chart and further, the Shizuoka play impacting this week’s charts becomes the group’s sixth to gross over 10 million USD. The "LOVE YOURSELF: SPEAK YOURSELF" tour has averaged 6.2 million and 50,945 tickets per show."

BTS will play an additional four shows in Asia in October before wrapping their 2019 tour.

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SJin92K271 pts Friday, August 2, 2019 0
Friday, August 2, 2019

OUR 7 KINGS so POWERFUL and AMAZING !! I feel so proud of them

congratulation!

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DisplayName9753,919 pts Friday, August 2, 2019 0
Friday, August 2, 2019

That's huge. I can't wait for total gross from the whole tour with Speak Yourself leg and all shows reported. I have a feeling that it's going to be the biggest tour by a Korean act.

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