BTS Passes $500 Million in Cumulative Tour Ticket Sales

BTS has surpassed US$500 million in cumulative ticket sales through its ongoing “Arirang” world tour, Billboard reported. The milestone makes the South Korean group the first pop group in the world to reach that total, according to the publication.

The tour is the seventh by any group to pass the US$500 million mark. Billboard cited its latest Boxscore figures, released Wednesday in U.S. time, for the ticket-sales milestone. The report identifies BTS as a septet and describes the figure as cumulative sales from the tour.

Billboard noted that the other six groups to reach the same threshold are rock bands, placing BTS in a distinct position among pop groups. The report does not provide further tour totals or details in the information available. Its central finding is that BTS has crossed the milestone while the “Arirang” world tour is still ongoing, making the group the first pop act to do so.