Blackpink albums and songs sales
The K-Pop industry continues its outstanding rise to fame. If BTS are the flagship of the genre, more groups are proving to be incredibly popular, with one of the hottest of them being the all-female band Blackpink.
Last year, they dropped their first entire album, but they have been releasing very popular songs and mini albums for several years. How much have they sold up to date?
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Blackpink Albums Sales
Figures listed in this section reflect pure sales of long playing formats, either albums, compilations or videos. Streams are excluded.
Studio Albums
Compilation Albums
Blackpink Songs Sales
Figures listed in this section reflect all metrics of songs’ sales, these are audio streams, video streams, and sales (physical singles, downloads, ringtones).
These numbers are converted into Equivalent Albums Sales (EAS), formula below.
( Spotify streams * 310/207 + Genie streams * 3.05*2 + AWA streams * 100/5.5 ) / 1500 + ( QQ views* 50(or 5) + YouTube views ) / 11750 + Digital sales (DL+RT) * 0.15 + Physical sales * 0.30
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Blackpink CSPC Results
In the following results table, all categories display figures in equivalent album sales. If different, pure sales are listed between parentheses.
As a reminder:
- Studio Album: sales of the original album
- Other Releases: sales of compilations generated thanks to the album
- Physical Singles: sales of physical singles from the album (ratio 3/10)
- Download Singles: sales of digital singles from the album (ratio 1,5/10)
- Streaming: equivalent album sales of all the album tracks (ratio 1/1500 for Audio stream and 1/6750 for Video stream)
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Already ahead of Little Mix, with their 17 million equivalent album sales Blackpink are comfortably the biggest female group on the planet right now.
With one fourth of the quartet, Lisa, releasing her first single album next week, expect to keep hearing about the group. In spite of their healthy sales, it feels like they are just getting started.
Singles CSPC results
The list is compiled in album equivalent sales generated by each song. Therefore, these figures are not merged units of singles formats. Instead, it includes weighted sales of the song’s physical single, download, ringtone and streaming as well as its share among sales of all albums on which it is featured.
1. 2020 – Blackpink – How You Like That [The Album] – 2,330,000
2. 2018 – Blackpink – Ddu-Du Ddu-Du [Square Up] – 1,560,000
3. 2019 – Blackpink – Kill This Love [Kill This Love] – 1,530,000
4. 2017 – Blackpink – As If It’s Your Last [Blackpink] – 1,290,000
5. 2016 – Blackpink – Playing with Fire [Blackpink] – 1,170,000
6. 2020 – Blackpink & Selena Gomez – Ice Cream [The Album] – 1,160,000
7. 2016 – Blackpink – Whistle [Blackpink] – 1,100,000
8. 2020 – Blackpink – Lovesick Girls [The Album] – 1,050,000
9. 2016 – Blackpink – Boombayah [Blackpink] – 1,010,000
Dynamic Spotify Key Performance Indicators
Please note that numbers below are retrieved automatically, so they will evolve day by day unlike previously listed data which is valid as of the publication date of the article.
Blackpink
Current followers count: 38,986,356 38,000,000 followers have been reached on 03/03/23 37,000,000 followers have been reached on 01/29/23 36,000,000 followers have been reached on 01/04/23 35,000,000 followers have been reached on 12/06/22 34,000,000 followers have been reached on 11/05/22 33,000,000 followers have been reached on 10/05/22 32,000,000 followers have been reached on 09/09/22 31,000,000 followers have been reached on 09/07/22 32,000,000 followers have been reached on 08/26/22 31,000,000 followers have been reached on 07/19/22 30,000,000 followers have been reached on 05/22/22 29,000,000 followers have been reached on 03/26/22 28,000,000 followers have been reached on 02/03/22 27,000,000 followers have been reached on 12/22/21 26,000,000 followers have been reached on 11/08/21 25,000,000 followers have been reached on 09/26/21 24,000,000 followers have been reached on 08/20/21 23,000,000 followers have been reached on 07/07/21 22,000,000 followers have been reached on 05/30/21 21,000,000 followers have been reached on 04/19/21 20,000,000 followers have been reached on 03/13/21 19,000,000 followers have been reached on 02/08/21 18,000,000 followers have been reached on 01/07/21 17,000,000 followers have been reached on 12/03/20 16,000,000 followers have been reached on 10/25/20 15,000,000 followers have been reached on 09/27/20 14,000,000 followers have been reached on 08/22/20 13,000,000 followers have been reached on 07/15/20 12,000,000 followers have been reached on 05/28/20 >> Daily breakdown
Blackpink is #25 among the most followed artists of all-time >> Visit our Top 200 most followed artists ranking
Current streams count: 9,160,293,516 9,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 03/14/23 8,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 11/19/22 7,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 09/07/22 6,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 12/11/21 5,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 07/09/21 4,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 12/21/20 3,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 08/30/20 >> Daily breakdown
Current monthly listeners: 22,016,102 (Trend: 1,626,879) Global chart position: #213 The artist top 50 cities come from 20 distinct countries >> Global impact breakdown
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One of my fav girl groups in Kpop
Never seen a worse record label than yg , who doesn’t even give them one album every year. They sell albums like boy bands, globally only 2nd to BTS in name recognition. Huge stream stats. Each girl is marketable as hell. They also seem happy with this process tbh. But label is happy with them making coins from deals. At this point they can pull a worldwide arena ( stadiums in asia ) tour and beat all tour records. But their label is sleeping.
Doubt they are happy about it, just slave to their contracts until they can renegotiate. But yes yg are the worst, they got a girl group phenomenon comparable to spice girls back then and doing nothing with it, any label would be milking the hell out of this group
Whenever I try to use this same formula for Twice for weighted physicals and streams, the number is always over 18M. I use available Gaon, Oricon, RIAJ for physicals, and Spotify, Genie, AWA and YouTube for audio and video streams.
Their total could be around 15-20m. As a once, 18m seems high. 17m seems accurate
Why don’t you add Apple Music & Pandora Streams? why don’t they configure an API like they did in QQ, these platforms have many active users, the difference would be huge in the final result
How does ‘As If It’s Your Last’ have 1.6B Streams in QQMusic? even adding all the “14 Music Video” I still wouldn’t reach these numbers, how do you have access to the exact amount on the platform?
I’m very confused with the numbers presented.
There is no boot news on MelOn, can you clarify why platform streams are not counted?
how can you prove that MelOn streams are not valid?
They already explained genie numbers are consistent when extrapolated with gaon, there is no need to add melon. And they are definitely more misleading than genie nowadays, some songs have well over 100m streams there and no gaon certification
how do you get access to QQ Music Streams?
Hi, I just wanted to clear a question, when do Global Streams Updates come out? (YouTube, Spotify and QQMusic?) really wanted to see the updated BLACKPINK Streams on QQMusic
Hello! I have a question regarding video streams. Do you count guest performances on late night shows like Jimmy Fallon, fancams, choreography, as part of video streams?
They do. Not sure about the Jimmy Fallon one. But they also include lyric videos.
they dont count from YT alone they use YouTube music charts