Streaming Masters – Twice

The 9-members K-pop group Twice has been exploding year after year since their 2015 debut. They have now reached a point where they are arguably the biggest girl group in the world.

During 2018, they even were the most streamed artist in Japan, outdoing BTS! But just how well are they doing globally?

In order to account for her real popularity in each relevant country, the below sources have been used along with the mentioned ratios that reflect the market share of each area.

Audio Streams
– South Korea : Genie streams * 3.05 (consistent with Gaon streaming numbers)
– Japan : AWA streams * 100/5.5 (AWA has 5.5% of the Japanese streaming market)
– Elsewhere : Spotify streams * (370 – 8.5 – 9.5 – 33 – 9) / 207 (370 million global subscribers minus 8.5 million from South Korea minus 9.5 million from Japan minus 33 million from China divided by the number of Spotify only users minus 9 million more Asian users) + Genie streams * 2.25 (uses Genie rather than Spotify to extrapolate markets like Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam)*

*The multiplier for Genie streams have been set to 2.25 instead of the usual 3.05 to not inflate her Asian numbers since her popularity is much larger in South Korea in comparison unlike most western acts and more global K-pop artists like BTS and Blackpink.

Video Streams – China* : Xiami streams * 125/6.5 (Xiami has just over 5% of the Chinese streaming market)
– Elsewhere : Youtube views

*since 96.4% of Chinese streaming platforms are free users, that paid-for users pay less than $2 a month and that they are also used as video streaming platforms, their streams are weighted in par with YouTube streams.

Audio Stream value – 1500 plays equal 1 album unit
Video Stream value – 11,750 views equal 1 album unit

Equivalent Albums Sales (EAS) = ( Spotify * 310/207 + Genie * 3.05 + Genie * 2.25 + AWA * 100/5.5 ) / 1500 + ( Xiami * 125/6.5 + YouTube ) / 11750

Twice streaming review – the results

Total: 4,357,841 EAS

Twice most streamed tracks (EAS)

1. TT [Twicecoaster]417,000
2. What is Love? [What is Love]357,000
3. Cheer Up [Page Two]356,000
4. Dance the Night Away [What is Love?]319,000
5. Likey [Twicetagram]312,000
6. Yes or Yes [Yes or Yes]301,000
7. Fancy [Fancy You]276,000
8. Knock Knock [Twicecoaster]257,000
9. Heart Shaker [Twicetagram]253,000
10. Like Ooh-Ahh [The Story Begins]249,000
11. Signal [Signal]216,000
12. Feel Special [Feel Special]129,000
13. BDZ [BDZ]51,000
14. Candy Pop [BDZ]40,000
15. One More Time [BDZ]34,000
16. The Best Thing I Ever Did [Yes or Yes]31,000
17. Merry & Happy [Twicetagram]30,000
18. Breakthrough [&Twice]30,000
19. Jelly Jelly [Twicecoaster]28,000
20. I Want You Back [BDZ]25,000

Sources: SpotifyYouTube, AWA (app), XiamiGenie.

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Name

Please update it’s been more than 3 years and they had their us debut.

KPopFanMan

Are Twice on the list of artists we can vote for to be studied?

Pedro

Update!

Mohammadnayeon

Please update

twicefan

Is there Data for TWICE Sales in 2020?

Tay

I don’t get how you calculate streams like that…for example TT’s audio streams are 71m+164m+78m but the total says 471M

eva

It’s pretty surprising seeing all these girl groups -Twice, BP, Fifth Harmony and Little Mix- having almost the same EAS but when it comes to actual sales only LM have big numbers (confirmed by over 130 ww certifications) and Twice are monsters for physical sales in SK and Japan

dayo

omg read again, 130 ww certifications not records

emi

Please update their album sales

Ellie

pft you’re the same one of the 82m sales?…. lmao this is a serious site not like your inflated numbers

djdj

TWICE! The most successful K-POP girl group of all-time with nearly 8 million physical album sales in just 4 years! I guess they would pass 10 million physical sales next year!

guest

Japanese singles cost as same as Korean albums. while Japanese albums cost 4-5 times more than korean albums. So i wouldn’t say japanese singles weigh 3 times lower than album when it costs the same as korean album
In album sales Twice has surpassed Girls’ Generation last year. with GG being at a total of 4.9M album sales and Twice being at 7M sales as of right now

Jibikun

They sold 10M+ overall album sales now, please update.

Drewwwwww

I heard that when you include countries like China to their album total, you will get raw album sales of 35m total?

Drewwwwww

Well I also said “include countries like” so not only China.

Drewwwwww

Update: Twice has officially surpassed 10m sales in Korea and Japan combined

Name

They now have +14.5m sales (kor+jpn)

divinedhammer

I don’t know what you people think of this Korean pop music style. I show you guys more musicians like Beenzino, Hyuk Oh, Jaurim, Clazziquai. also there are so many indie musicians here.

divinedhammer

Hi, nice to see you here. Oh I see.. sorry!!! It was not about the matter of preference. just write down. I also performed TT dance in my comany anniversary show. I want to reset my memories haha. thanks.