[NEWS] BIGBANG is listed in American Forbes’ “30 Under 30 Music: Gallant, Bigbang, Daya, Logic And The Class Of 2017”

BIGBANG is listed in “30 Under 30 Music: Gallant, Bigbang, Daya, Logic And The Class Of 2017” selected by American economic magazine Forbes.

On January 3 (local time), Forbes announced the “30 Under 30 Music: Gallant, Bigbang, Daya, Logic And The Class Of 2017” list.

Singers, songwriters, managers, and businessmen who are creating seismic changes in the music industry around the world have been selected for the “30 Under 30 Music” list.

[NEWS] BIGBANG Chosen as The 30 Highest-Paid Celebrities Under 30 In 2016 by Forbes

BIGBANG made it on the Forbes list of the 30 highest-paid celebrities under 30.

On November 15 (local time), Forbes announced the list of “The 30 Highest-Paid Celebrities Under 30 In 2016” on its website. BIGBANG came 13thwith an annual earning of $44 million (about 52 billion won).

BIGBANG was the only Korean act on the list. Others on the list include Tayler Swift, Justin Bieber, Adele and Rihanna.

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— G-DRAGON (@IBGDRGN) November 17, 2016

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[NEWS] BIGBANG took 54th rank selected by American Forbes… 3rd highest among boy groups around the world

BIGBANG took the 54th place in American economy magazine Forbes’ highest-paid celebrities list for 2016.

Forbes unveiled the list of top 100 highest-paid celebrities for 2016, on July 11. According to Forbes, BIGBANG’s earnings in 2016 were 44 million dollars (approximately 50.5 billion Korean won). Forbes said, “BIGBANG’s comparable to One Direction and Backstreet Boys and the world tour helped BIGBANG’s high earnings”.

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"BIGBANG Becomes the First Korean Pop Artist to Make it on Forbes Celebrity 100 List
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[NEWS] BIGBANG Becomes the First Korean Pop Artist to Make it on Forbes Celebrity 100 List

BIGBANG made it on this year’s Forbes Celebrity 100 list. They are the first K-Pop act to land on the list.

On July 6, Forbes published an article titled, “Bigbang Theory: How K-Pop’s Top Act Earned $44 Million In A Year”.

[NEWS] BIGBANG Theory: How K-Pop's Top Act Earned $44 Million In A Year

As record executive Joojong Joe weaved through the packed crowd at the 19,000-capacity Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif., there to see Korean boy band BIGBANG, he spotted a young Russian woman crying. She couldn’t explain why. Confident that she wasn’t in any actual distress, he moved on.

“It’s like the Backstreet Boys back in the day,” Joe says with a shrug. “A lot of people cry.” Even, it turns out, a Russian obsessed with five androgynous Korean boys. Such is the reach of the hottest global pop genre, the campy Korean variant known as K-Pop.

The top act in its niche, BIGBANG took home $44 million in pretax earnings over the past year, easily more than the $33.5 million collected by today’s highest-paid American all-male arena pop group, Maroon 5. BIGBANG will be appearing on the upcoming