Which is the best source of revenue for a K-pop act?

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It's touring, it's always been touring

The company & artists all earn their biggest income from touring

Touring. Now that we're in a pandemic and tours don't occur, I would say albums. Albums are a great way to earn profit if your group is having a good selling power. Some groups could totally live off of album sales and even without touring lol.

Even when tours do return, they will walk hand in hand with albums as the most profitable ways

CF, pretty much easiest money too

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Yes that's why I mentioned average and decently popular - to exclude the few immense successes and the many who don't have any fame.

For average it depends on if its a boygroup, girlgroup or soloist..

I would think it goes something like:

Boygroup - Concerts, Music, Merc, Cf,

Girlgroup - Cf, Concerts/Music, Merc

Soloists - Cf, Music, Concerts, Merc

I dont think acting even registers for 99% of idols, few do it, and among those who do even fewer get to a point where they do high paying lead roles.

1. Touring

2. Physical Sales

3. CFs