Sales [SALES] Twice - a physical album sales thread (Gaon + Hanteo + Oricon + RIAJ)

[SanaWanna]

[OTHER] A physical album sales thread of Twice since their debut in Korea and Japan's market. 

 

This piece of information is gathered and made by Twice VN so shoutout to them once again. I'm just doing my job, translating from their Facebook post so that i-fans on OH can have a general understanding about Twice's physical sales since their debut (Mistakes in translation may occur so bear with me).

 

 

 

I. GAON

- Calculate the amount of albums sold and distributed in Korea. For Twice, Genie music is responsible for producing and distributing their music. 

 

- Album sales publicized through Gaon monthly (already minus the amount of payback albums). Product that is accepted by Gaon: Tape - LP - CD - USB - normal albums. 

 

- Gaon Sales up until 8/2017: 

 

(2015)

• 1st Mini album "The Story Begins": 49,904

(Total of 2015): 49,904
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(2016)

• 1st Mini album "The Story Begins": 50,575

• 2nd Mini album "Page Two": 179,452

• 3rd Mini album "TWICEcoaster : LANE 1 (incl. Xmas edition)": 350,852

(Total of 2016): 580,879
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(2017) (Up to August): 

• 1st Mini album "The Story Begins": 29,495

• 2nd Mini album "Page Two": 39,449

• 3rd Mini album "TWICEcoaster : LANE 1 (incl. Xmas edition)": 38,762

• Special album "TWICEcoaster : LANE 2": 275,714

• 4th Mini album "SIGNAL": 273,020

(Total of 2017): 656,440
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<Total>: 1,287,223

II. HANTEO

- The amount of albums counted from Hanteo's stores.

- Hanteo only counts Offline orders (Roadshop) + Online orders (Internet shop) from their own stores within Korea. 

- Not only CD, Hanteo also counts DVD that officially published on Hanteo. For Twice there are Twice TV2, 3 and 4.

- Twice's Hanteo sales (all) here is counted at the end of week 35 of 2017 (03/09/2017):

(2015)

• The Story Begins: 32,908

(Total of 2015): 32,908
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(2016)

• The Story Begins: 23,278
• Page Two: 108,607
• TWICEcoaster : LANE 1: 202,793
• DVDs: 3,640

(Total of 2016): 338,318
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(2017) (03.09)

• The Story Begins: 10,788
• Page Two: 16,697
• TWICEcoaster : LANE 1: 25,426
• TWICEcoaster : LANE 2: 152,299
• SIGNAL: 161,630
• DVDs: 2,412

(Total of 2017): 369,252 
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<Total>: 740,478 Copies 

III. RIAJ

- The amount of Album sold distributed within Japan. Warner Music Japan is the company responsible for producing and distributing their music.

 

- Sales number is only provided within the producing company and exclusive press, RIAJ do not publicize their sales online, unlike Gaon.

 

- For #TWICE, up until now, with the number on SoundScan Japan (249,346 copies), the number on RIAJ can be estimated as approximately 280,000 copies.

 

IV. ORICON

- The amount of album sold counted on Oricon's official stores within Japan.

 

- Online stores that register to Oricon such as HMV Japan, YesAia, CD Japan, Amazon Japan,...their domestic online orders is also counted as Oricon's official sales. 

- Twice's Oricon sales is  counted at the end of week 35 of 2017 (publicized on 06/09/2017):

(2015)

• The Story Begins: 6,851

(Total): 6,851
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(2016)

• The Story Begins: 5,676
• Page Two: 12,248
• TWICEcoaster : LANE 1: 16,959

(Total): 34,883
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(2017) (06.09) - (Lane 1 + Lane 2 = TWICEcoaster)

• The Story Begins: 3,022
• Page Two: 4,167
• TWICEcoaster (LANE 1 + LANE 2): 37,034
• SIGNAL: 17,684
• #TWICE (Japanese album): 232,504

(Total of 2017): 294,411
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<Total>: 336,145
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› To sum up this calculation mess:

• Gaon: 1,287,223

• Hanteo: 740,478 

• RIAJ (only with the domestic album #TWICE): ≥ 280,000

• Oricon: 336,145
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Summarized by TWICE VN - Vietnamese ONCE For TWICE

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[OIaM]

Thanks for TWICE VN and your great work!! 

[Twice snatched my weave]

don't we already have a sales thread? 

https://onehallyu.com/topic/276326-%E2%98%85-twice-official-sales-achievements-thread-%E2%98%85-100k-on-oricon-in-4-days/

[oguritaiki]

TWICE slay ~

[Frenz]

I think the original twice sales thread is already very well organized and complete

[SuhoLovesSana]

INB4 envious fans of other mediocre girls groups come here and show their ugly jealousy.

[zetsupetsu]

For a girl group with 4 foreign members they seem to be selling decent enough.

[Minnie._.]

Queens of selling albums