Stray Kids' world tour this year ranked in the top 10 worldwide for 2025 tour performance.
According to the year-end charts released by Billboard on the 9th (local time), Stray Kids' "Stray Kids World Tour < dominATE >" (< 도미네이트 >) placed No. 10 on the "Top Tours 2025" chart (based on counts from 2024.10.01 to 2025.09.30), the highest ranking for a K-pop artist this year.
They sold about 1.3 million tickets across 31 shows held in Hong Kong and five Latin American cities, 10 North American cities and six European cities. The chart also featured global artists such as Coldplay, Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar & SZA, The Weeknd and Shakira.
With a tour billed as their "largest ever," Stray Kids set several firsts and highest records for K-pop artists. Of the 31 shows counted on Billboard's "Top Tours 2025" chart, 29 were held at mega stadiums representing each region across 21 locations in Latin America, North America and Europe, and Stray Kids became the first K-pop artist to play in 11 of those stadiums. In particular, at Stade de France in Paris they set new records for the largest scale and the biggest audience ever for a K-pop act.
In October, Pollstar released its "Top 20 Global Concert Tours," where Stray Kids ranked No. 2, the highest position for a K-pop artist. The chart, which ranks tours based on average ticket revenue by region, placed them second after Beyoncé, and Rolling Stone recently highlighted Stray Kids' achievements in an article titled "10 moments that defined K-pop's monumental year in 2025."
Rolling Stone wrote, "The 'K-pop mega group' Stray Kids broke new records this year. According to Pollstar, the '< dominATE >' tour was the second most successful global tour of 2025 after Beyoncé. They continue to break their own records with each album release. With SKZ IT TAPE's 'DO IT,' released in November, they became the only group in Billboard 200 history to debut at No. 1 and send eight consecutive releases straight to No. 1 on that chart."
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