South Korean band BTS member Suga, who has another year left on his mandatory South Korean military service stint, earned the highest-grossing concert movie of 2024.
According to Billboard, on April 16, Trafalgar Releasing and HYBE announced that the limited run of the concert film from the singer’s alter ego, Agust D, set box office records in the U.S. and internationally for the year so far.
According to a release, during screenings from April 10-14, SUGA | Agust D TOUR ‘D-Day’ THE MOVIE, grossed $10.16 million worldwide in limited release. This gave Suga the rights to the highest-grossing U.S. and worldwide concert film of 2024 in addition to the highest-grossing movie event ever for a solo K-pop act.
The concert film screened in 3,500 theaters in more than 100 territories mostly from April 10-13 coming in at No. 2 on the April 10 box office report in North America on grosses of more than $961,000, with a per-screen average of $1,264 in 784 theaters; the cumulative North American gross was $2.3 million.
The film’s IMAX screenings also pulled in more than $2 million, accounting for 20% of the worldwide gross. Trafalgar was also the distributor of note in Europe, Asia, and South America for 2023’s top-grossing concert films, Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour movie ($267.1 million) and Beyoncé’s RENAISSANCE; A FILM BY BEYONCE ($44.4 million).
Due to demand in the US, the film’s release was expanded by 100 screens a week into pre-sales and additional screenings through April 21.
