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Seventeen Ranks No. 7 on Billboard Midyear Top Tours List

The placement signals K-pop’s growing commercial clout by putting the group’s NEW_ world tour among the year’s biggest global earners.

Overview

  • Billboard’s Midyear 2026 report shows Seventeen at No. 7 after the group’s NEW_ world tour earned about $88 million and drew roughly 574,000 paid attendees across 25 concerts in the six-month tracking period ending March 31.
  • Pledis Entertainment said the full tour run, which ran from September through April, reached more than 900,000 fans on- and offline when online viewers and additional shows are counted.
  • Seventeen also placed ninth on Billboard’s Top Ticket Sales chart, and the midyear report ranks Lady Gaga and Bad Bunny as the top two grossing tours with $236.2 million and $230.3 million respectively.
  • Other K-pop acts on the midyear list include TWICE at No. 12 and Tomorrow X Together at No. 15, underscoring growing competition for international touring revenue in the genre.
  • Pledis is extending the tour momentum with fan meetups in Incheon on June 20–21, a V8 (The8 and Vernon) album due June 29, and Dino’s first solo EP planned for August.