The group Stray Kids has achieved a spot in the top 10 worldwide tours of 2025 with their world tour this year.
According to the year-end charts released by Billboard on December 9 (local time), Stray Kids reached the highest ranking for a K-pop artist at 10th place on the ‘Top Tours 2025’ chart (calculated from October 1, 2024, to September 30, 2025) with their world tour ‘dominate’.
They sold approximately 1.3 million tickets for 31 performances held in cities including Hong Kong, five cities in Latin America, ten cities in North America, and six cities in Europe. The chart features global artists such as Coldplay, Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar & SZA, The Weeknd, and Shakira.
Stray Kids’ ‘dominate’ tour marked the largest scale for the group itself, breaking various records for K-pop artists. Of the 31 performances recorded on Billboard’s ‘Top Tours 2025’ chart, 29 were held in large stadiums across 21 regions in Latin America, North America, and Europe, and they were the first K-pop artists to perform in 11 of these stadiums. A new record was particularly set at the Stade de France in Paris for the largest K-pop event in terms of scale and audience.
In October, U.S. concert magazine Pollstar listed Stray Kids as the highest-ranking K-pop artist, coming in second place on the ‘Top 20 Global Concert Tours’. This chart is based on average ticket sales revenue per region and placed them just after Beyoncé. Recently, Rolling Stone highlighted this achievement by Stray Kids in their article on ’10 defining K-pop moments of 2025′, recognizing their significant accomplishments.
Rolling Stone stated, “The ‘K-pop mega group’ Stray Kids set new records this year. According to Pollstar, the ‘dominate’ tour was the second most successful global tour of 2025 after Beyoncé. With each album release, they continue to break their own records.” The group became the only ones in Billboard 200 history to debut at No. 1 with eight consecutive releases, with their November release ‘SKZ IT TAPE’ including the track ‘DO IT’.
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