Recently, netizens on a famous inline forum in South Korea has compiled a list of the latest album sales (repackaged is not included) from early 2019 of groups who debut in between 2017 – 2019. The result is very surprising because the groups that were called super rookies at the time couldn’t reach the expected album sales.
Boy groups
- AB6IX (83,500 copies)
- TXT (77,900 copies)
- Stray Kids (62,000 copies)
- ATEEZ (45,100 copies)
- The Boyz (44,100 copies)
- A tie between ONEUS, Golden Child, JBJ95 (12,000 copies)
- VERIVERY (4,800 copies)
- 1THE9 (4,500 copies)
- A.C.E (3,600 copies)
- ONF (3,300 copies)
Girl groups
- IZ*ONE (132,100 copies)
- fromis_9 (28,700 copies)
- (G)I-DLE (20,300 copies)
- Dreamcatcher (14,300 copies)
- LOONA (13,000 copies)
- Weki Meki (5,300 copies)
- GWSN (4,300 copies)
- Everglow (3,400 copies)
- Cherry Bullet (2,700 copies)
Seeing this chart, netizens are in awe by AB6IX and IZ*ONE’s physical sales, whose members are from the survival show series “PRODUCE 101”. However, some are very surprised that (G)I-DLE doesn’t have a high album sales like how they has expected.
“G-idle is unexpected, I thought they’d be higher”
“IZONE, let’s earn lots of money”
“AB6IX, hit daebak”
“Wow IZONE are freaking awesome”
“AB6IX fighting <3”
” A.C.E, please hit big ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ”
“G-idle, let’s hit bigger”
“Wow IZONE ㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷ”
“Fromis9, let’s do even better, I love you <3”
“Oh Stray Kids are unexpected, they are selling pretty well, fighting”
Source: pann-choa
