Gaon chart revealed the K-pop artists with the most album sales since 2011. From BTS to NCT to EXO, read the article to know if your bias made it to the list!
Top Artists With The Most Albums Sales Since 2011
On January 7, the Korea Music Contents Association revealed the results of "Top Artists with Cumulative Album Sales" based on artists who debuted since 2011.
According to the list, the group with the highest album sales among debut artists since 2011 was BTS with 32.78 million copies, followed by NCT with 15.77 million copies, EXO with 14.44 million copies, SEVENTEEN with 10.2 million copies, and TWICE sold a total of seven million copies.
Here are the Korean Groups to have highest album sales since 2011:
1. BTS - 32,783,223
2. NCT - 15,773,729
3. EXO - 14,443,618
4. SEVENTEEN - 10,201,354
5. TWICE - 7,299,094
6. Stray Kids - 4,562,267
7. GOT7 - 4,105,009
8. Wanna One - 3,646,766
9. TXT - 3,332,307
10. MONSTA X - 3,139,226
11. BLACKPINK - 2,756,527
12. ATEEZ - 2,593,083
13. The Boyz - 2,552,987
14. ENHYPEN - 2,509,729
15. Red Velvet - 2,243,517
16. IZ*ONE - 2,148,234
17. NU'EST - 1,850,641
18. ASTRO - 1,521,622
19. VIXX - 1,437,695
20. TREASURE - 1,136,993
21. MAMAMOO - 1,119,601
22. SF9 - 1,033,735
23. BTOB - 1,022,175
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In the solo category, EXO Baekhyun recorded the highest with 2.65 million copies, while Ho-Jung Kim sold a total of 1.09 million copies. Girls' Generation Taeyeon followed with 1.05 million copies, and Taemin of SHINee with one million copies appeared in the rankings.
Here are the K-Pop solo artists who got the highest album sales since 2011:
1. EXO Baekhyun - 2,657,711
2. Kim Ho Joong - 1,092,933
3. Girls' Generation Taeyeon - 1,051,567
4. SHINee Taemin - 1,005,665
Together with these chart results, the cumulative sales of the artists who recorded the most album sales in the past 10 years alone reached 99.28 million copies, close to a hundred million copies, a glimpse into the culmination of various K-pop artists.
Gaon Chart Holds 'We Pick! Awards 2021'
Meanwhile, the Korea Music Contents Association plans to introduce year-end closing content that introduces data outside of the charts across nine themes through Gaon Chart's Facebook and Instagram on January 10.
Gaon Chart collaborated with Instagram to prepare a new concept award ceremony, "We Pick! Awards 2021," which ranks the charts with songs of the featured artists.
"We Pick! Awards" is a unique type of awards ceremony that ranks the charts only with the songs of the artists who appeared on a livestream and announces the winners from the artists who participated during the event, unlike the other music awards where artists are nominated first.
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The top five artists selected as a result of the fan-voting conducted by releasing the content on Instagram in advance, and the top five Gaon chart picks counted based on the objective data of the Gaon Chart, will be revealed on the show.
In particular, the top five fan picks were calculated by adding up the number of likes and comments on the releases uploaded to Instagram, the number of releases created by fans with the song during the voting period, and online voting results on the Gaon Chart official website.
Fans who participated in the "We Pick! Awards" showed a warm response, producing a total of 9,399,204 likes, 100,262 comments, and 2,717 releases.
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Annie Barmaine reported this.
