After making her debut in April 2015, Oh My Girl Jiho is not only focused on her music career but also took on acting challenges a few times. Now that she is almost seven years in the Korean entertainment industry, how big could her net worth now be?
Want to know if Jiho is the richest member of Oh My Girl? Then, keep on reading!
Oh My Girl Jiho Net Worth 2022: How Much Money Does She Make?
Kim Jiho joined WM Entertainment in 2011. This makes her the member with the second-longest training period (about 4 years), after JinE who started training at the agency a few months earlier than her (April 2011).
On April 21, 2015, Jiho debuted as an Oh My Girl member. She was given the positions of lead vocalist and visual in the group.
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Oh My Girl did not gain much attention when they debuted until the first half of 2016. They started to see a significant rise in popularity in 2017. They gained more recognition in 2020 and 2021.
With her group's continuous success in the K-pop industry, Oh My Girl Jiho's net worth is estimated to be $1.5 million, according to allfamousbirthday. This figure is projected to rise this year as the girl group continues to release more albums.
Read on to know how she managed to attain that figure.
How Did Oh My Girl Jiho's Net Worth Surpass One Million Dollars?
As mentioned above, Oh My Girl did not make it big in the K-pop scene in their first two years. Their debut album "Oh My Girl" only sold 3,225 copies in South Korea in the first month after its release.
The two succeeding mini-albums "Closer" and "Pink Ocean" only surpassed 5,000 copies within the first month. The girl group started to reach 10,000 first-month sales in May 2016 with their repackaged album "Windy Day."
Oh My Girl Jiho's net worth has since started to grow as her group's subsequent albums until 2020 all surpassed 20,000 first-month sales.
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Among their works that came out between 2015 and 2020, the best-selling one is their seventh mini-album "Nonstop" which sold 54,568 copies by the end of 2020. It is the group's fastest album to hit the 50,000 mark.
Notably, "Nonstop" contains the two tracks that are the two longest-running K-pop girl group songs in MelOn Top 100 history: "Nonstop" and "Dolphin." As of September 17, 2021, "Dolphin" has spent 502 days on MelOn, which "Nonstop" has marked its 501st day.
In 2021, Oh My Girl Jiho's net worth further increased after her group dropped its eighth mini-album "Dear OhMyGirl." This EP impressively sold 69,442 copies on the Hanteo Chart in just the first week. It sold 93,908 copies in South Korea within the first month of release.
By the end of the year, "Dear OhMyGirl" sold 111,804 copies in South Korea alone. This becomes the group's first and fastest album to exceed 100,000 copies in the same year as it arrived.
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Oh My Girl also sold albums in Japan in the past years and all of them recorded good results. Most of them sold more than 15,000 copies in the first week of their release.
This 2022, the girl group returned with their second full-length album "Real Love." It is expected that Oh My Girl Jiho's net worth will increase more.
In addition to album sales, Oh My Girl Jiho's net worth is also influenced by her group's concert tours. They held concerts in various countries. Their latest one took place in Japan in January 2020 when they had their "Oh My Girl Zepp Live Tour 'Starlight Again.'"
And apart from her music career, Jiho had a few acting projects as well. She appeared in the movie "A Little Pond" in 2009 (six years before her debut as an idol) and the drama "Search: WWW" in 2019.
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Written by Mhaliya Scott
