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Amazing results especially for a K-pop Act! Can you do TWICE? They've been the best selling K-pop Girl Group of all time with 10m sales in just Korea and Japan. I don't know their CSPC so it'd be nice if you do them too!
Typical toxic armys. Everywhere I go it's Blinks vs Armys. Are you guys not tired a little bit?
Can you explain , does studio album only phisycal or both of phisical and digital ? Thank you 😊
Just like you can see , they are like dust , you can find them everywhere anywhere , wth
Anyway The Album placed #5 as the biggest album ww in 2020 , as for female they were on #2 under Taytay who is on the 1st place
Hi Athienia!
Studio albums are pure sales (physical + downloads) of the album itself. The exception comes from Chinese downloads, which are weighted down due to their lack of control, so they are listed as part of the compilations list with a weight that is equal to the album download price divided by 50 (= an album at 20Y is worth 0.4).
Hi Broken!
We are well aware of these certifications, they aren't in line with how downloads are counted elsewhere though. By downloads, it's implicitely meant paid-for downloads. In South Korea, they used to have subscribers opening unlimited downloads, and then now it only takes a streaming subscriber who makes a song available offline. That's how the download market there is worth less than $10 million per year, yet they claim millions and millions sales.
We still account for downloads up to 2017 with the full ratio because our set of indicators was lacking representation of SEA success. Now that Genie streams are very relevant and factored into the formula, it would be double counting to keep adding these post-2017 'downloads'.
Its make me confused at the beginning cz as long as I remember , The Album sales ( physical data on Gaon ) was 1,4M and on this data is 1,8M
Thank you once more time 😊
It's important to note that unlike many K-Pop albums, The Album also had foreign editions. In Europe, North America, Latin America, Japan the album was locally produced. Thus, the version tracked by Gaon relates to sales from Asia (mainly SK and China) plus Oceania, with some exports elsewhere, but they are not global units!
I’m intrigued to know where do Blackpink rank among other k-pop artists, being from the UK I don’t know many k-pop songs but I’ve tried to make myself at least aware of the biggest acts, obviously BTS are by far and away the most successful, but where do acts like EXO, NCT 17 and Twice rank
Well on this list are only two k-pop acts bts and BP
BTs is in the highest place and bp in the 2nd, but from those who are not Included, it's possible that Exo and BigBang have more CSPC then Blackpink and acts like NCT and Twice stand not far behind Blackpink
Please correct me if I am wrong
#1 BTS
#2 IU
#3 Twice/Exo
#4 Blackpink
It's just a guess based off label reports, don't take it to the heart if it's wrong
