gaon releases their half year round up for 2015!

[byeolbyeol.livejournal.com]

lo and behold: gaon has released their cummulative report for the chart's best selling artists physically, digitally, overall, ect. for the first half of the year. (apparently the timeline of everything included runs from january 1st to sometime last week.) a post earlier this week was made on hanteo's round up of physical sales solely for the first half of the year.

digital sales

01. 같은 시간 속의 너 - naul (released: february 5th)
02. call me baby - exo (released: march 31st)
03. 다른 남자 말고 너 - miss a (released: march 30th)
04. loser - big bang (released: april 1st)
05. puss - jimin / iron (released: march 20th)
06. up & down - exid (released: august 27th, 2014)
07. fire - mad clown (released: january 9th)
08. 두사랑  - davichi (released: march 18th)
09. bae bae - big bang (released: april 1st)
10. 목소리 - noel (released: january 8th)
11. who's your mama - jyp (released: may 13th)
(...)
14. ah yeah - exid (released: april 13th)
(...)
18. 우연히 봄 - loco / yuju (released: may 20th)
(...)
29. 마음 - iu (released: may 18th)
(...)
46. 벚꽃 엔딩 - busker busker (released: march 29th, 2012)


physical sales

01. exodus (korean ver.) - exo (released: march 31st)
02. exodus (chinese ver.) - exo (released: march 31st)
03. love me right (korean ver.) - exo (released: june 23rd)
04. odd - shinee (released: may 18th)
05. 화양연화 (pt. i) - bangtan boys (released: april 29th)
06. love me right (chinese ver.) - exo (released: june 23rd)
07. m - big bang (released: may 2nd)
08. 어느 멋진 날 - yonghwa (released: january 20th)
09. boys' record - vixx (released: february 24th)
10. a - big bang (released: june 1st)

top artists

the spie chart is a bit confusing because of the color key virtually looking the same for... every... single person on the list. the only confirmed percentages by the article were exo with the 37.7% and big bang with the 27.5 but i'm figured that you can follow the chart from the 7.0% to the last 2.3% with those on the below list that aren't exo or big bang.

01. exo
02. big bang
03. bangtan boys
04. shinee
05. yonghwa (cnblue)
06. d&e
07. vixx
08. xia (jyj)
09. jonghyun (shinee)
10. sunggyu (infinite)
11. others

people are also a big confused about what it indicates: it's for the best selling artists overall for the first half of the year but some are saying it's for album sales (including the sales of albums released before 2015 that chart) and others are saying it's for album sales from the first half of the year along with digital sales..., who knows. it's something, regardless.

you can find more charts / round ups at the sourced below but it's mostly random industry / company related rankings.

source: gaon

because it may be asked, the difference in how hanteo and gaon calculate their charts is as follows: hanteo only counts sales from retailers that are "hanteo" certified (along with albums bought on sites like yesasia and dvdheaven) which only equals to about 85% of the sales in south korea, while gaon counts virtually ever sale under the moon / shipments to distributors. (this also counts sales on sites like yesasia, ect.) gaon has album sales reported to them via the korean music content industry association while hanteo doesn't, ect.

Comments

[huanyia.livejournal.com]

wow thanks for sharing! so proud of bangtan for making it up there :D
and of course exo totally topped the physical charts lmao

[kjc48.livejournal.com]

damn March 30-April 1 were great days to drop a song lol
Get those album royalties Yonghwa!

[springsky.livejournal.com]

Miss A and Bangtan! Get it.

[pinkiikis.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing!!! wow!!!

[mamamoos.livejournal.com]

wow i'm so proud of exid they've come so far and their music is great

[wi-arae.livejournal.com]

Slay EXID tbh, a comeback in every sense of the term

[kevinmchale.livejournal.com]

yay miss a, jimin, exid, and bts! can't wait for the full list!

i'd really like to know how exactly gaon computes digital aggregate because who knew call me baby would chart higher than only u and loser 💀

[lysblack.livejournal.com]

Yup, especially when it comes to actual downloads miss A is miles ahead of exo (the last time I checked they were ridiculously close to hit 1M).

[hitthoselightz.livejournal.com]

this list makes me sad

[pseudo-shigure.livejournal.com]

I think BB's songs are released on May 1st, not April.

[lysblack.livejournal.com]

[side eyes the digital chart]

how is exo ahead of miss A when the girls sold more? and the boys song was released before the girls.

anyways, slay my girls!

[gray-fairy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, according to this: http://kpopsales.blogspot.com.es/2015/06/gaon-first-8-weeks-download-chart.html Miss A has 300k more downloads than EXO. This is for the first 8 weeks but afaik CMB still haven't reached Miss A's sales so it's very confusing tbh.

[lettace.livejournal.com]

i thought big bang had higher digital sales then exo? even miss a hmmm

[hipployta.livejournal.com]

Miss A and Big Bang have way more downloads so I'm not sure if Gaon included streaming

[forsureyoudo.livejournal.com]

ikr wtf..

[rennehollic.livejournal.com]

Busker Busker is STILL charting?? Really??

[imienazwisko.livejournal.com]

they are charting each and every year during spring bc of cherry blossom ending. their vocalist is living off royalties atm

[gray-fairy.livejournal.com]

I don't really understand digital charts? According to this: http://kpopsales.blogspot.com.es/2015/06/gaon-first-8-weeks-download-chart.html Red Velvet's ICC and EXO's CMB sold similarly the first 8 weeks (a bit over 500k) and Miss A is currently #1 with 800k downloads, but EXO is above Miss A, and Red Velvet is not even in the list? o_o

[nekokonneko.livejournal.com]

maybe discrepancies might be due to streaming being lumped in with downloads?

[imienazwisko.livejournal.com]

i still can't believe people are listing to puss out of their own will

[miyozari.livejournal.com]

+1

[ashiva.livejournal.com]

Op is in wrong, Gaon counts shipments (how many albums stores order from the distributors like Mnet, KT Music, and Loen), and not actual sales what come to physical albums. Sometimes stores order too many albums and end up returning unsold albums after few months which can be seen at the end of the year chart as a smaller number than Gaonchart originally may have reported.

[byeolbyeol.livejournal.com]

yeah, i forgot to put that they count shipments from all distributors.

[miwa201.livejournal.com]

yas at ah yeah being so high. can't believe people called it a flop lmao

[gray-fairy.livejournal.com]

People nowadays call everything that don't debut at #1 on melon and/or don't stay top 3-5 for several weeks a flop. It's ridiculous.

[donutism.livejournal.com]

Yassssssss jimin

[jazzy4heard.livejournal.com]

well, I think I've learned to not really believe in Korean charts / awards anymore (there's no way exo sold more than bigbang digitally, or is it possible?)
So I'm happy that my biases are up there (D&E), but it doesnt prove anything to me..

[ashiva.livejournal.com]

I don't think anyone understand how Gaon counts their overall digital chart nowadays as how can exo's song be above songs that have both more streams and downloads.

[revertigo.livejournal.com]

why so male-dominated? :(

[suxaholic.livejournal.com]

I am not even hating on exo but considering that multiple artists and groups have both higher digital sales and streams it just does not add up.

I only rely on instiz and hanteo everything else is skewed

[jeliza]

Dang, Puss did ridiculously well. It apparently has hit so many of Spotify's national "viral" lists that it made it on to the global one as well. I don't quite get why it has that level of appeal, but it is an impressive showing for a k-hiphop track.

Cherry Blossom Ending will clearly never die.

[atopworld.livejournal.com]

I'd say you should ask SM, but SM would probably ask you the same question.

[hipployta.livejournal.com]

That digital chart is a lie...Big Bang and Miss A has more downloads and streaming so how is it calculated?

[iigoru.livejournal.com]

oop @ my delusional ass expecting 4minute to be in this

[gray-fairy.livejournal.com]

tbh I was expecting them to be here as well. They sold almost 500k in the first 8 weeks and probably almost 600k by now. This is a weird ass list anyway.