They always have. The reason they use Genie instead of MelOn is because the latter doesn't filter their streams, meaning there's a lot of bot-generated plays.

does the total album sales include singles?

Yes. There's a whole section for it.

By 2025 comeback, they will have seven albums over ten million eas and I am sure next comeback will set new album sales record in kpop.. It will become their eight tenth million seller.

And if they release another five albums till 2029. And move on in their 30s, they still wouldve moved 200 million units in their career.... Insane career. Despite the racism they face from western music fans on forums and twitter. Asian fan base is present and future. Smart western artists are focusing on asia.

@MJD Can you please explain how they sold 1.2 million albums in South/Latin America without having any sales in these countries?

Seems very strange.

Insane how Tear wasn't even past 10M when this article was updated and now it's past 11 million (I used updated physicals from the Circle chart).

They have sold over 20 million plus without pure sales updates. Wonder what their actual total is. If next yr cb is smash..they might reach 150 million plus by 2026 end

When they eventually get around to updating BTS, the pure sales jump will add an additional 2M units.

How can I see streams or plays in Genie, AWA and QQ?

Wtf, they're sold has been slayed by Olivia Rodrigo.

it far surpassed make it right in basically every aspect

Just checking back in here to say that with updated pure sales, Wings is now over 13 million CSPC. That's their 4th album to cross the 13M mark since they went on group hiatus and they haven't released a standard album in over 4 years now!

Time really flies, it feels like they were releasing albums yesterday and their big (& recent) ones are now 4-6 years old, that's crazy! I'm really curious to see the results of their comeback, although it looks like we will need to wait some more time!

About their new milestones reached I'll need to update their CSPC before their return as I'm not too sure at how the explosion of many Asian markets on Spotify is skewing their results ; although even if the conversion for streams is running too high surely their pure catalog sales are making up for it!

I honestly doubt the recent development of Spotify in Asian countries is skewing the group releases. Now for some solo releases, probably. But the group's streams are relatively stable. They've added at least 2.1 million in catalogue sales by my calculations.