Although the year 2019 has just passed more than 5 months, the album sales of these companies have brought much interesting information about their situation.
KPOP is like many big entertainment industries in the world, where album sale is one of the factors that determine the success of singers. With the growing spread of Korean culture wave, fans from anywhere have the opportunity to buy a physical album, which is “like a dream” compared to the situation 10 years ago.
Since then, it’s not surprising when the race of selling albums becomes increasingly fierce. Thequoo forum users have summarized the ranking of 15 companies that have sold the most albums since the beginning of 2019 until now.
No 1. BigHit: 4.073.797 copies sold
BTS: 3.892.576
TXT: 181.221
No 2. JYP: 747.536 copies sold
TWICE: 447.681
Stray Kids: 177.760
JUS2: 89.107
Junho: 16.596
GOT7: 5.296
Nichkhun: 4.352
DAY6: 3.744
Baek Yerin: 3.000
No 3. Pledis: 695.439 copies sold
SEVENTEEN: 517.699
NU’EST: 177.740
No 4. SM: 591.177 copies sold
Chen: 210.189
Taemin: 121.857
Super Junior D&E: 88.170
Key: 33.068
Ryeowook: 25.785
NCT127: 20,648
TVXQ: 18.660
EXO: 17.931
NCT: 17.514
NCT Dream: 17.049
Red Velvet: 10.393
Lay, NCT127, Jason Derulo: 3.952
Onew: 2.478
EXO-K: 2.203
Jonghyun: 1.280
No 5. YG: 369.429 copies sold
Black Pink: 277.334
iKON: 66.293
Bobby:13.085
WINNER: 8.064
Jennie: 3.296
Song Mino: 1.357
No 6. Starship: 333.032 copies sold
MONSTA X: 249.158
WJSN: 63.486
Jung Sewoon: 20.388
No 7. Off The Record: 298.708 copies sold
IZ*ONE: 298.708
No 8. CUBE: 207.893 copies sold
BTOB: 43.707
PENTAGON: 39.875
Lee Minhyuk: 37.714
Wooseok x Kuanlin: 36.414
(G)I-DLE: 35.221
CLC: 12.302
Lee Chang Sub: 2.660
No 9. Fantagio: 121.173 copies sold
ASTRO: 121.173
No 10. Maroo: 108.807 copies sold
Park Ji Hoon: 108.807
No 11. HOW: 104.695 copies sold
Hwang Chi Yeol: 104.695
No 12. Star Crew: 99.989 copies sold
Ha Sung Woon: 87.737
Roh Tae Hyun: 12.252
No 13. Source Music: 97.805 copies sold
GFriend: 97.805
No 14. RBW: 94.393 copies sold
MAMAMOO: 64.722
ONEUS: 29.671
No 15. FNC: 82.350 copies sold
SF9: 50.075
N.Flying: 17.599
Cherry Bullet: 14.676
