First of all guys, they not just counting physical album (21.M as per last update, today, Gaon Chart)
But they also count : stream, download, sales per songs, basically total units.

20 million+ is physical album only not included download and streaming equivalent album sales. What this chart master did is counting everything from physical, streaming and download. That's how 55 million+ is counted.
On this streaming era how many artist nowadays actually have powerful physical sales? This just showing that BTS has insane physical sales and also good album equivalent sales from streaming and download.

Thanks for the update, it's crazy to see how much they grow every year. I have a question: I have looked at the artists you've studied and I'm pretty sure the only Asian artist who has a higher overall EAS is Ayumi Hamasaki with 61,153,000. Assuming BTS will overtake her in the relatively near future, will they become the best selling Asian artist of all time or do you think there is an Asian artist that you haven't studied yet who has more EAS?

Hi D.P! There will still be B'z ahead of them for now.

Thanks for the reply - I look forward to you covering that artist one day so we can see how far ahead they are (for now)

i am from future.. BTS is topping the hot 100 for 2 consecutive week.

Crazy that their pure album sales continue to increase for each album even as that format tanks for most artists.

Interested to see and update on One Direction to see how much their albums have increased despite not releasing any since 2015, especially since their 10th anniversary

Wow! I just realized that BTS released already 12 original albums in 7 years?...
Am I seeing this right? That's really a lot... didn't know they started so long ago and released so many things... I only ever heard 2 songs from them as those were the only played at the radio (I'm in Europe, where they sold the less amount of albums worldwide).
Sure they are near Spice Girls sales level but they released what? 3 original albums during 3 years?
Unfortunally sales from last century are not very reliable and are probably quite higher than official data, especially in some European countries and South America. Even Billboard Soundscan only covered 45% of US market in the late 90's.

I’m a little confused. The picture with YouTube streams says BTS has over 2 billion streams. Can someone break it down so I can understand better?

you are right. I agree with you. But data of chart master is a little bit wrong in latest bighit briefing video bang pd said BTS sold 6.2 million copies of mots persona and 4.1 million copies of Mots 7 but here it's 7.9 million for persona and 6+ million for mots 7 and I don't think that bang pd is lying.

Welcome back online guys. Great job as usual. I'd like to know if someone has an explanation of why J-Pop so far has never been able to achieve the same popularity in western music markets that K-Pop is currently experiencing

First of all, the Japanese market unlike the Korean one is so massive on it's own. This doesn't really give the labels there much of a reason to try to expand internationally since their artists can sell in the tens of millions domestically. They also held a ton of acts of services like Spotify, YouTube and even iTunes until recently due to the massive market share physical sales still have there. This definitely resticted foreigners from consuming J-Pop legally as most can't really aford importing super expensive CD's from Japan.

Korean labels on the other hand had their eyes set on the Japanese market and later the World already in the early 2000's since the amount they could sell in South Korea alone was much more limited. They also have backing by the Korean ministry of culture who seeks to increase South Korea's soft power globally through music, dramas, sports, fashion etc. (commonly known as the Hallyu wave) This has worked incredibly well across all venues mentioned, not just K-Pop.

Thanks. I didn't know the korean government was so openly behind the korean pop culture boom of the past 20 years. Wise policy I have to say since being an international pop culture power is probably almost as important as being an economical and military power

Is there any link where we can check the most successful albums of each year?
In the Records & Achievements part, it says BTS' album were in either top 5 or top 10, i'm curious which albums were above it.
How can I know those??

https://chartmasters.org/2017/10/best-selling-artists-albums-and-singles-of-all-time/10/

Thanks for the link!
But this link only shows the top album of the year! Is there a link I can use to see top 10 albums of any year?

Sadly no. But if you give me a specific year can I give you a list of the top releases we've studied + some rough estimates for the ones we haven't yet 🙂

Do you have an estimate for B'z? Based on rough calculation on albums and singles they arent ahead of BTS, but DVDs probably put them ahead?

Thanks for the offer, I was looking for multiple years.
It's alright.

Hi. Do you also have a breakdown of the total sales of individual solo tracks released by each members? It would really be helpful. 🙏

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May you please update this?

Hi!
Will you please update the sales of Map of Soul:7 and BE
Thanks

Please make one about BLACKPINK