Girl Group/Female Soloist Gaon 2021 Sales So Far + Hanteo 1st Week Sales

[dior-chic.livejournal.com]

GAON: 2021 Sales by Artist (Girlgroups/Female soloists)

#1 #TWICE
#2 #ROSÉ
#3 #IU
#4 #ITZY
#5 #BLACKPINK

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— girlgroups album sales (@girlgroupsales) August 15, 2021

The chart includes Gaon sales of new albums released this year and previous albums from their discography that also sold this year. It’s missing some smaller groups but has an overall impression on how it’s looking for girl group sales this year.

For Hanteo sales tracking, here’s a chart of the 1ST WEEK sales below the cut.

HANTEO: First-week sales - Girlgroup/Solo albums (2021)

NEW #Sunmi

#1 #ROSÉ
#2 #IU
#3 #TWICE
#4 #ITZY
#5 #WENDY

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— girlgroups album sales (@girlgroupsales) August 17, 2021

Source: @girlgroupsales on Twitter 1, 2

Comments

[dior-chic.livejournal.com]

I’ve noticed that digital doesnt always guarantee physical success (and the opposite rings true for physical doesn’t mean digital success looking at DC and Loona lol)

Heize is a digital chart darling but her album didn’t sell much, same with Taeyeon (still impressive numbers for a soloist but you’d think she’d sell more). It’s interesting to see who people like to tune into new releases but that’s it, they’re not interested in buying. Joy’s song did much better digitally so maybe general public favors her more but just to casually listen, not enough to buy albums. The loyalty is more Wendy’s side as RV fans came out to support her album more but she didn’t stay on the top 100 long.

Also it didn’t seem like intl kpop fans cared about Joy’s release because they were 2000s cover songs, maybe if she had a more sexier concept intl fans would’ve been more into it? Though I know they aren’t into ballads either like Wendy so I’m not sure on that one haha.

[memei5.livejournal.com]

thank you for this! i guess i had assumed that joy was more popular within the fandom so would have sold more as a result but this is all makes sense!