K-pop boy band Treasure made a great start in their music career by posting the highest first-week album sales among artists who made their debut this year. They included albums from BTS, Seventeen, Baekhyun, NCT 127, NCT Dream, TWICE, IZ*ONE and GOT7.“Album sales have been driven heavily by K-pop acts with a strong overseas presence and big international fandoms, as the domestic market has reached near saturation,” Kim Jin-woo, chief researcher at Gaon, told That success defies the trend in the global music industry. Along with being a K-pop columnist at Billboard, I’ve written for outlets including NBC News, Entertainment Weekly, The Village Voice, MTV, and Noisey.

With the first half of the year already seeing a major boost in album sales, 2020 is expected to be the biggest year ever tracked by Gaon since its inception in 2010. Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Dua Lipa. Future Nostalgia. Kpop Numbers Thread - Hanteo Sales - June 2020 [Feature] For those of you who ask every month, no, I'm not going to stop including the other albums that released this year. Fiona Apple. My first book "BTS: Blood, Sweat & Tears" is out on Aug. 11. After Hours. (Photo by VALERIE MACON / AFP) South Korea is looking to have its best-ever year when it comes to physical album sales, with the global covid-19 pandemic doing little to stop K-pop lovers from buying millions of albums.According to South Korea's Gaon Chart, the top 400 South Korean albums sold in the first half of 2020 sold over 18.08 million copies, surpassing last year’s mid year sales of 12.33 by 40%. 86. critic score (28) 78. user score (2533) Apr 17.

Nielsen Music Data reported that US album sales decreased 20 percent in the first half of this year compared with a year earlier.“Ironically, the cancellation of concerts and fan meetups due to the pandemic seems to have aided K-pop album sales because the fans didn’t have any other choice. Experts share tips with emerging designers to create sustainable fashion labels Buying albums was the only way to show support for a while,” said Kim.According to Gaon, the bestselling album in the first half of this year was BTS’ It was also the bestselling album in the US with 552,000 copies, ranking first on the top-selling album chart at the midpoint of 2020, according to Nielsen Music Data.Though the septet’s album sales increased by about 100,000 copies compared with the same period last year, the band’s albums made up a lower percentage of the top 100 -- 29.3 percent this year, from 41.9 percent last year.This is due to the overall increase in sales of K-pop albums this year as Seventeen, Baekhyun, NCT 127 and IZ*ONE became million-sellers on the strength of wider global fan bases.

Part traditional album, part Though the K-pop world typically keeps upcoming release under wraps until only a few weeks before their arrival, the second half of 2020 already has a lot of potential to continue the trend of increasing year-on-year album sales to see the biggest-ever year for South Korean album sales, with things like BLACKPINK’s first LP set to arrive in September while I am a New York City-based journalist specializing in international music and media with a focus on the Asian pop culture market and its trends. (AFP/Handout / Big Hit Entertainment ) “Based on the band’s website traffic, YouTube subscribers and concert ticket sales over the past year, there has been a significant increase in Japanese users in the past couple of years,” said Kim. According to South Korea's Gaon Chart, the top 400 South Korean albums sold in the first half of 2020 sold over 18.08 million copies, surpassing last year’s mid year sales … According to Gaon Chart, the nation’s top 400 albums … K-pop acts have become a rare outlier in the global music industry as artists who are regularly able to see immense physical album sales from their dedicated fanbases. The K-pop industry boasts record album sales this year in spite of canceled tours and stage performances. K-Pop (137) Metal (179) Pop (158) Pop Rap (87) Pop Rock (51) Post-Punk (43) Psychedelic (66) R&B (123) Rock (276) Singer-Songwriter (85) Synthpop (85) Trap Rap (172) Mar 20. Gaon Chart reports that as of morning of June 9, 2020, TWICE's mini album "More and More" has officially sold a total of 550,000 copies in album shipments making it the group's highest record yet. BTS challenges themselves once again with ‘Dynamite’ 94. critic … Japan remains one of the major markets for K-pop, accounting for about 60 percent of its exports. TREASURE's debut album 'THE FIRST STEP: CHAPTER ONE' already reached the 150,000 pre-order sales, tagging them the as the best selling rookie boy group of 2020… Fetch the Bolt Cutters.