Numerous idols in recent years have started up their own YouTube channels, whether it be to share song covers, dance choreographies, or just vlogs about their daily lives. With those channels and their videos, there comes in adsense, which means these idols can earn a profit from sharing these videos. Here are the 10 K-Pop artists who make the most money on YouTube, according to Social Blade.
1. Apink's Bomi
Bomi's channel, adorably named "Bbom Bbom Bbom", has amassed over 812,000 subscribers since she opened it on April 2019. The view from her YouTube channel combined equal to over 49 million views. With that in mind, her estimated earnings in a month is $7,300 USD, or $87,800 USD a year!
2. DAY6's Jae
Jae created his YouTube channel back in January 2016. Though formerly called "JAESIX", he has since renamed the channel to "eaJ", his name spelled backwards. Since establishing his channel, Jae has gotten over 881,000 subscribers, with 21 millions views across his 29 videos. His estimated earning is $13,200 USD a month, or $157,900 USD a year!
3. Girls' Generation's Taeyeon
Taeyeon created her channel, "TaengooTv", in January 2014. Since the channel's opening, she has amassed over 1.23 million subscribers. With her 27 videos, she has gotten over 38 million views. Her estimated monthly earnings is $2,00 0USD, or $23,700 USD a year.
4. AKMU's Suhyun
Suhyun established her channel on May 2017. Though originally called "MochiPeach", she has since renamed it to simply "LeeSuhyun". Since the opening of her channel, she has garnered over 1.45 million subscribers and has amassed over 60 million views across 87 videos. Her estimated monthly earning are $12,300 USD a month, or $147,000 USD a year.
5. HyunA
HyunA opened her channel back in September 2019 and simply named the channel "HyunA". Not even a year since she opened the channel, she already has over 1.45 million subscribers and 38 million views across her 44 videos. Her monthly earning are $6,500 USD, which means she earns $78,400 USD a year.
6. EXO's Chen
Chen's self-titled YouTube channel was established in March of 2019. He has recently passed his channel's first anniversary. Since the establishment of his channel, he had garnered over 1.72 million subscribers and has amassed over 23 million views across 10 videos. In a month, he can make $12,900 USD, or $154,000 USD a year.
7. MAMAMOO's Solar
Solar created her channel "SoLarSiDo" back in January 2019, which means she had her first anniversary at the beginning of the year! Since she opened her channel, she has gotten over 2.24 million subscribers and amassed over 119 million views across 137 videos. In a month, she can earn $20,600 USD, or $247,300 USD a year.
8. EXO's Baekhyun
Baekhyun's self-titled YouTube channel was established in May of 2019, which means he too has recently celebrated his channel's first anniversary! Since he's opened the channel. he has garnered over 2.89 million subscribers and amassed over 34 million views across 13 videos. In a month, he can earn $3,500 USD, or $41,800 USD a year.
9. BLACKPINK's Lisa
Lisa opened up her YouTube channel "Lilifilm Official" back in October 2018. Since then, she has garnered over 3.6 million subscribers and amassed a whopping 107 million views across just 9 videos! In a month, Lisa's estimated earnings for a month are $83,000 USD. This means she makes almost $1 million USD a year just from her YouTube videos, making Lisa the highest earning K-Pop idol on YouTube.
10. IU
IU's YouTube channel, "Lee Jieun [IU Official]" was established in February 2017. Since the opening of her channel, she had garnered over 3.7 million subscribers and amassed over 162 million views across 93 videos. Her estimated monthly earning are $49,000 USD, or $588,600 USD a year.
