YG Entertainment Drops Down From Top 3 Agency Album Sales For 2019

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4 hours ago, strawberry melon said:

Stray Kids sold more than Got7?

Stray Kids released 2 new albums this year so far (with a third one coming next month), and Got7 just one.
And SKz fandom has been growing steadily over the year, which means new fans also are buying their older albums (if you look at the october chart the only Stray Kids album that's not in top 100 is Clé 2 : Yellow Wood). More than 100,000 of the sales are from their 2018 releases (Mixtape + I Am series).

 

2 hours ago, Miss.Miss said:

This seems like a misleading article. 

In the sense that they didn't fall down but actually went up one place thanks to Wanna One's disbandment, yeah pretty much.

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5 minutes ago, lovenatu said:

Isn’t it ironic that it’s a girl group that’s carrying their company right now? Yang Hyun Suk must be furious that it’s not a boy group 

Frankly physical sales aren't a good way to judge how YG groups are doing, they've always relied on GP success over fandom, and touring. And honestly I don't know which group brought the most money from touring this year. 

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2 hours ago, Xoxo7 said:

Isn't it obvious that it's BLACKPINK 

Oh wait yg stans are in denial that their oppas are not THAT demanded and profitable.

Shocked that people want BP.

Hm dunno iKOn had a pretty big tour in Japan, with two concerts a day sometimes.

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14 minutes ago, Xoxo7 said:

Lmao

People outsold them with the bare minimum period.

 

As I said I dunno. I searched some info but I couldn't find any number for 2019 in English (and I can't read Korean so...).

And from that chart it does look like iKon was the top earner for YG last year (and the biggest earner after Big Bang for the two years before), and it's only this year that BP took over.

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19 hours ago, Pupper said:

Everyone saying YGE was top 3 without albums sales is horribly wrong.

Big bang used to be the top selling boy group when it came to albums, and is a main reason they were TOP 3. Not digitals.

In 2015 YGE as a whole still sold more than BTS, but BTS was already ahead of Big Bang in total sales despite BB having more releases (thanks to the MADE series). Not that BB was really losing steam, but more like 3rd gen selling a ton more than 2nd gen.

Starting in 2016, YGE was dwarfed by not only SM (who were the undisputed #1 in sales), JYPE (with GOT7 starting to sell better after their rookie year, and TWICE hitting it big from debut) and BigHit (BTS had blown up).

Facts are that YGE earned a ton more from Big Bang's touring than their album sales, and that's the money that allowed them to become more than a simple entertainment agency and earn the status of 'big3'. When it comes to Korean album sales BB did pretty good but nothing that exceptional compared to other boy groups. What makes them legendary is their success abroad, and how popular they've always been with the general public.