According to a report by a US entertainment magazine, the second of K-pop band BTS’s three performances in Seoul has raked in more than $32 million from movie theatres across the world, where fans from various nations were able to view it live.
“BTS Permission to Dance on Stage – Seoul” was one of the septet’s first concerts in front of a live audience in its native nation since 2019, Variety reported on Sunday, grossing $32.6 million from 3,711 venues in 75 countries (US time).
The magazine described the numbers as “blockbuster,” noting that the second-night show was seen in 803 theatres and grossed $6.84 million in North America alone.
Tickets in the United States and Canada cost $35, about four times the region’s average ticket price of $9. According to the report, multiplexes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Houston, and Chicago were bustling, with several reporting multiple sold-out screenings.
According to the report, the BTS concert came in third place behind Robert Pattinson’s superhero adventure “The Batman,” which took in $66 million from 4,417 places during the weekend, and Tom Holland’s “Uncharted,” which took in $9.2 million from 3,725 sites.
According to Variety, Paul Dergarabedian, a senior media researcher at the US-based market research firm Comscore, the global box-office results for the BTS concert are “astonishing” and “unprecedented.”
Marc Allenby, CEO of the show’s North American distributor Trafalgar Releasing, was cited as stating, “It’s a monument to both the extremely loyal following of the ARMY and the overall return to theatres on a worldwide scale.”
