{"id":665799,"date":"2026-11-03T17:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/665799\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T17:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T17:00:09","slug":"bts-drives-hybe-revenue-to-all-time-highs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/665799\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS Drives HYBE Revenue to All-Time Highs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBTS<\/a>\u2019 continuing world tour has delivered HYBE its best earnings report in the company\u2019s history, with the company reporting 1.52757 trillion Korean won ($1.135 billion) in revenue and 188.5 billion Korean won ($140.35 million) in operating profit for the third quarter of 2026.<\/p>\n

\n\tRevenue from recorded music, concerts, appearances and advertisements for HYBE\u2019s artists accounted for 70% of this quarter\u2019s revenue, totaling 1.0743 billion Korean won ($801.36 million). Indirect artist activities, which include merchandise, licensing, fan club memberships and content, had been 750.4 billion Korean won ($559.1 million).<\/p>\n

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\n\tRevenue from recorded music generated 282.8 billion Korean won ($210.67 million) this quarter, while touring generated 726.8 billion Korean won ($541.7 million). On Aug. 14, KATSEYE<\/a> released their third EP, WILD, which topped the Billboard 200 and earned 170,000 equivalent album units in its first week.<\/p>\n

\n\tTouring revenue was largely driven by BTS\u2019 European and North American tour dates, with HYBE artists ENHYPHEN<\/a>, LE SSERAFIM<\/a>, &TEAM<\/a>, KATSEYE and CORTIS<\/a> also all out on the road. KATSEYE performed 31 sold out shows, according to HYBE\u2019s earnings report, with dates in Europe and North America. The group will continue touring Asia and Oceania in January.<\/p>\n

\n\tBTS\u2019 North American tour merchandise generated 107 billion Korean won ($79.66 million), while overall merchandise and licensing revenue reached 334.6 billion Korean won ($249.11 million) this quarter.<\/p>\n

\n\tLast week, HYBE Americas launched its first Latin pop label<\/a>, Tru Records, with Santos Bravos<\/a> debuting as its first signing. HYBE also launched HYBE Global Label Service in October.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis quarter\u2019s revenue surpassed last quarter\u2019s<\/a> record-high of 1.45 trillion Korean won ($987 million) and record profit of 170.9 billion Korean won ($116 million).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BTS\u2019 continuing world tour has delivered HYBE its best earnings report in the company\u2019s history, with the company…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3313,69587,146,10381,56968,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-665799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-earnings","tag-earnings-report","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-kpop","tag-hybe","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}