BTS topped the sales chart of Kpop idol albums in 2021, BLACKPINK was "ousted" by juniors

Although there are no full albums in 2021, BTS still proves their formidable charm when far ahead of a series of competitors.

In recent years, the sales of Kpop artists' albums have improved. Reaching a million copies in each comeback is no longer a rare thing, female idols even "disperse" hard disks on par with their male counterparts. To summarize 2021, Gaon chart has announced the total album sales of Korean male and female idols. The data is from week 1 to week 50/2021, including all new and used products they sell.

In the ranking of male idols, BTS is called the "album king", and they fully deserve this title when they topped the top male artists with the highest album sales on Gaon in 2021. worldwide" sold a total of 7,208,920 copies, including approximately 3 million Butter singles.

Notably, this year BTS only released Butter, the rest comes from the old album sales of 7 boys. This shows that BTS still has great charisma after 8 years of operation, not releasing a full album, but still able to dominate the chart and far ahead of its competitors.

Earlier, Oricon - the largest music statistics website in Japan also officially announced that BTS topped the year-end artist chart in 2021 as the best-selling artist of the year in Japan. The annual ranking is determined based on an artist's total single, album and DVD sales as well as their streaming data for the entire year.

Accordingly, BTS is now the first foreign artist in history to top the artist of the year chart, plus a series of previous achievements, BTS automatically becomes the first foreign group to top the album chart. Oricon's year-end album (with Japanese compilation album "BTS, THE BEST").

Oricon said the success of "BTS, THE BEST" and BTS' hit single "Butter," as well as the enduring popularity of 2020 hit "Dynamite" all played a key role in helping the group rise. number one in the artist of the year chart.

Behind BTS is NCT 127 with 4,045,684 copies. NCT Dream - their "brother" subgroup reached No. 3 thanks to 3,887,751 hard disks sold in 2021. The entire NCT system ranked at No. 13, showing the amazing growth of SM boygroups. as well as affiliated sub-units.

There is only one solo artist who entered the male idol total album sales chart in 2021, and that person is Baekhyun. The EXO member "dispersed" to 1,043,992 discs, showing that he has a large number of hardcore fans and a successful solo career as well as his group activities.

Regarding the female idol group, although TWICE has recently cooled down, the group's ability to sell albums is still not average. 9 JYP girls achieved total sales of 1,599,635 copies in 2021 - topping the entire female idol chart on Gaon.

Following the senior in the same company, ITZY excellently won 2nd place with 920,891 copies. This year, ITZY made two comebacks with the albums GUESS WHO and Crazy In Love. Although the group's digital music rankings were not as expected, the runner-up position in the female chart showed the 5 girls' great selling potential.

BLACKPINK did not come back in 2021, but the old album sales were still enough for them to rank 8th in the top 10. Notably, 2 members Rosé and Lisa for the first time "sold out" but still achieved great sales. With the single album LALISA, Lisa ranked 3rd (766,486 copies), while Rosé was only slightly behind her teammates when she won #4 with 622,624 hard disks -R-.

Considering the total album sales of male and female idols, it can be seen that the chart is dominated by male artists. With more than 7 million copies of old and new albums sold on Gaon in 2021, it's no surprise that BTS is "the boss". However, many people argue about the 2nd best boygroup position after BTS. Between the two candidates, NCT and SEVENTEEN, SM boys only won 200 votes, while the boy group from Pledis received 255 votes.

The surprise happened when TWICE won 9th place in the general chart, and ITZY excellently ranked 13th. They are the only 2 female representatives to make this list, demonstrating the ability to sell the best albums of JYP girl groups. . With TWICE topping the female chart and being one of the only two girl groups in the group, it's easy to understand why Korean netizens have praised the nine girls and said that they are still the number one female idol in Korea. Kpop Gen 3.

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