A perennial question - whether BTS individual members or BlackPink individual members would have a higher income

Measure your own income we’re not their tax consultants

edit: whoaaaa that sounds snarky sorry mate

All I know is that both groups are millionaire.

Not my money. Wish it were mine then I'd count them for you.

Even if it'd take months!!

And which data you used? I believe non of them ever reveal their income. All of it was just full of speculation lol. And jyp is right up there lol if you count IU in. He is obviously richer than IU too and will always make more money than her. It's such a stupid topic to begin with and giving obsessed fans behaviour.

The thing is KPOP contracts never really have a value with them, its 40m+ staying with BP which is big income.

Wow, I don't really follow numbers but:

They really be going all out As If It's Their Last since last October.

I think it would be BTS. They have released so many more songs and have credits on them. Their tours are bigger and they sell more albums. And it’s not like as if they don’t have endorsements. Plus BTS had stake in their pre IPO company. As someone also had such a stake let me tell you they made bank.

Even if BP marginally have better earnings in endorsement deals there’s no way anyone can think that’s even remotely enough to close the gap with BTS unless you’re highly delusional.

Blackpink, they can generate another revenue stream through FeetFinder not so much BTS

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2018 - 2020 - JHope.

For whatever reason, JHope was always considered to be the BTS member who earned the most when they did little individual activities. I am not going to ask why,

2021 - IU, a company owner

BTS had just one foreign concert, BP had a hiatus with just individual activities without concerts, while it is known that IU took $15 million in 2021 from the financial statement of her company, which she owned back then and only had her to pay to, not including her copyright income, real estate appreciation, or expenses she ran through entities owned by her related parties (it is likely that since she was the owner she ran most of the expenses through entities owne22 - JHope

Only JHope and RM did solo activities I believe and JHope did a bit better.

Now, BlackPink had its biggest year of all .

The individual BTS member who had a biggest concert was Yoongi, whose total concert income only was about $55 million. His take would be perhaps 20% of it, $11 mil, plus other income he derived from elsewhere. It would be safe to assume that his total income in 2023 would be $20-25 mil. JK has not done a concert yet and since his full album would come out in Nov his tour income won't be accounted for till 2024.

I personally think individual BP members would have made north of $30m easily this year, with Lisa making the most. She easily snubbed YG's 40m offer.

BTS' income is split 7 ways while BP's is split 4 ways. A very big difference.

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This sounds like one of your fan fictions. Too many delusions incorrect assumptions with no real basis/source.

No, no one knows who's the richest member in BTS because that's a whole different ball game if we account their other business ventures outside of being an artists/celebrities. But obviously, with a recent tour, Yoongi made more money from their solo activities than the other members. And no, it's not 55M.

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And to put a comment on your assumptions, it's not a big difference at ALL, because BTS can generate the same amount of revenue as BP this year. Despite BTS having 0 group activities and only relying to their back catalogue and brand power excluding the income some members made this year from their solo activities, whilst BP had to put on a whole show for their world tour all year and doing sumn on the side individually.

It's not the SAME league AT ALL.

A BTS world tour with a regular cb can generate them 1.2B USD in a single calendar year at the very minimum, whilst that's most likely what only had BP made since their debut.

BTS even out-revenued YG entertainment almost 3x last year as per financial reports. And that's with direct sources. So, no with your bullshit reasoning of 4 VS 7 members 😂 It's BTS.

I don't think that bts ever talked about money. But tours, writing credits, album sales, merch, ot7 brand deals, stakes in hybe earned them a lot of money. Add solo brand deals to that now and suga's solo tour (28 shows, 57m dollars).

Just from the tour, Suga made at least 10 million, but then, as someone already pointed out, he has shares in Hybe, which I don't think is the case with BP members.

this year yoongi takes the cake....

Tour revenue.. tour merch sales.. 1.3m+ album sales.. credits as producers.. song writers.. etc... revenue from streaming platform like spotify... endorsements in velentino, nba, nba capsule merch ,solo samsung gig... multiple magazine covers..

solo photo book plus some more merch..

profits from best selling bts book... 10th annivesary stamps, gold coins ... disney documentary, solo and as group... kdrama youth coming soon... did i miss anything??

Unless jk does a tour , nobody can top yoongi!

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JYP is no longer an idol anymore. he releases a song here and there but no one really cares. I think he stopped being an idol in 2009 when his last hit came out

And IU's data, being the most available figure, became the benchmark. Others' income are now speculated from her figures since her figures are the most complete figures of an idol's expense structure since her number is not mingled with others'.

If hit is the benchmark of anyone careers, 99% percent this music industry are supposed to retired too. Not that hard to accept that he is richer and more successful than IU, the one that got rejected by his company.

Anyway, that's such a stupid answer.

It depends how well have they invested their money. If they invest into nvidia this year, the stock is up 200%+

wait for yg and hybe/bh’s yearly reports for 2023 then we’ll know. what’s the point of argueing they’re all rich anyway lol

I think BTS, statistically men earn more. Not to mention BTS will definitely have a much better contract than the BP members, they built their company, the shares they have in HYBE is prove, big entertainment companies are not usually this generous and likelihood this will not happen again in SK. Foreign members are also paid less so Lisa will likely take home less than the other girls. I just amazed that Suga managed to bank 1/4 of what the BP concerts pulled in this year given he did less…..so he’s definitely making bank