Unlike the Korean incels who floated the 'longer career' idea, who failed arithmetic in grade school, I tended to score better in math.
Largest grossing tour of all time
| 1 | 1 | $1,039,263,762 | $1,039,263,762 | Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour † | 2023–2024 | 60 | $17,321,063 | [A] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | $939,100,000 | $939,100,000 | Elton John | Farewell Yellow Brick Road | 2018–2023 | 330 | $2,845,758 | [8] |
| 3 | 3 | $810,966,041 | $810,966,041 | Coldplay | Music of the Spheres World Tour † | 2022–2024 | 132 | $6,143,682 | [9] |
| 4 | 1 | $776,200,000 | $925,014,604 | Ed Sheeran | ÷ Tour | 2017–2019 | 255 | $3,043,922 | [10] |
| 5 | 1 | $736,421,586 | $997,437,284 | U2 | U2 360° Tour | 2009–2011 | 110 | $6,694,742 |
The figure is slightly misleading since taylor swift has done about 80 shows to date, but still the numbers speak for themselves;.
IN 2020, the largest concert to date was Ed Sheeran's 2 year concert, 776m total and about 390m per year.
BTS' 4 day concert at Sofi stadium grossed 33M , 8.3m for show.
(As a comparison, the 2 day concert of BTS' Archenemy at Chamshil Olympic Stadium grossed about $8.5mil in the exchange rate at that time, proving once again that a concert in Korea is a complete waste of time.)
A full year of tour, with maybe 100 shows, would have grossed north of 800n, beating Ed Sheeran's record. Send Seokjin home for enlistment, if things progressed that far, and tour for half more year and BTS' tour would have ended with a gross of north of $1 billion and its position in history would have been ironclad, andTaylor Swift would have thought twice before striking out.
Now, can BTS beat Taylor swift's record of $1.5 billion?
NO!!!!!
(1.5 billion, not 15 billion, although either way it has become an insurmountable wall against BTS.)
I won't even consider the possibility that thanks to the Min Heejin circus BTS will probably not continue as we know it beyond the year 2027.
Given that BTS' next tour woll maybe have 40-50 shows, even if it grosses $8m, which is unlikely, it will have a revenue of $300m tops.
1/5 of Taylor Swift's tour.
She does lots of 3 days, and sometimes 4 days, show.
BTS can't do that anymore.
I have said many, many times that BTS won't be able to recover what lost in 2022-25, never. And it is mathematically proven.
Why they were so obsessed in Korea, which consisted less than 5% of BTS' total business? JK's sole perf afte earning #1 in Billboard Hot 100 was held in a venue holding 5,000, while BTS' archenemy had a fan concert at the KSPO dome, for a total of 28,000.
Unlike the claims of the Korean incels, the way for BTS to have a longer career was to shun Korea and launch a huge offensive in 2022.
Assuming BTS continues beyond 2027, when Jungkook would be 30, its venues will get smaller and smaller as the number of Armies dwindle as people move on to other acts, and they will be able to perform less of the numbers they performed at their halcyon days.
BTS' archenemy has removed Good Day and some other more challenging songs from her concert set list, mostly managing her concerts with less taxing ballad numbers.
BTS' archenemy can afford to do it since she doesn't really dance for her songs, but BTS can't do that.
So much for having a longer career. It was much better for BTS to climb as high as humanly could, and break away magnificently like the Beatles.
BTS' archenemy can live with having to do smaller tours. BTS cannot.
BTS' post-2027 career will be much, much less impressive than some armies are imagining, so it might be better in the longer perspective that MHJ had burst Hybe's bubble before they returned.
