As a result of the first half of the Gaon chart, sales volume of Top 100' increased 42% from last year

[Mrs. Morale]

Reporter Kim Hyo-jeong = New coronavirus infectious disease (Corona 19) hit the music industry in the first half of this year, but sales of major idol group records have increased significantly.

Yonhap News commissioned the Gaon Chart, compiled by the Korea Music Contents Association, in the first half (from December 29th of last year to June 27th of this year, 1st to 26th week), the album chart'Top 100' was compiled on the 2nd and ranked in the top 100 The total sales of the album was 1,642,77,000.

This is an increase of 42.1% from the total sales of the top 100 albums (1,1558,000) in the first half of last year.

In the first half of last year, only the BTS's'Map of the Sol: Persona' was the only album in the first half of last year that sold over 1 million copies, but this year, it increased to several teams.

BTS sold its 4th regular album'Map of the Sol: 7', released in February this year, and sold 4268,000 copies in the first half of the year. This album was also the first in the history of Gaon Chart certification to be certified as'Quadruple Million'.
 

MORE & MORE is the 6th best selling album in the 1st half of 2020 with 563K copies sold.

 

Seventeen was in second place. Seventeen Mini's 7th album,'Hungarae', sold a total of 1.27,000 copies until the 27th after its release on June 22, and put Seventeen on the list of singers.
 

 

Group Seventeen [Provided by Pledis Entertainment. Resale and DB prohibition]

The third place is'Delight' of EXO Baekhyun, and it is estimated that 823,000 copies were sold during the period. However, SM Entertainment, the agency, announced that the album had sold over 18,000 copies by June 30th, and it can be said that it also joined the ranks of million sellers.

In addition, the 2nd NCT 127 regular album ranked 4th with 784,000 copies, the 4th NCT Dream Mini ranked 5th with 602,000 copies, and the 9th TWICE Mini took 6th place with 563,000 copies.

NCT 127 2nd regular repackage album ranked 7th with 467,000 copies, Aizu One 8th with 459,000 copies, 1st GOT7 Mini 9th with 444,000 copies, and 9th with Aizu One Mini This was the 38th place with 10th place.

Boy groups of solid fandoms were at the top, and Twice and Aizu One were among the girl groups.
 

 

TWICE'More and More' [Provided by JYP Entertainment. Resale and DB prohibition]

There was also a tendency that the sales volume of the top-ranked albums were generally'leveled upward'. Major groups have recently announced that they have set their own records for the first move (first week sales volume) through Shinbo.

Among the album'Top 10' in the first half of last year, except for BTS, which exceeded 3 million copies, there were 2 copies of 400,000 albums, 1 album of 300,000 albums, and 6 albums of 200,000 albums.

However, this year, 5 out of the top 10 exceeded 600,000, and the remaining 6th to 10th albums also increased overall sales, such as 500,000 copies, 1 400,000 copies, and 300,000 copies.

However, the album that exceeded 100,000 copies was similar in the first half of last year to 27 and the first half of this year to 28.

It can be interpreted that the increase in music sales by the top-ranking groups with huge fandom is driving the entire music market.

Korean music sales, which once fell into a recession with the advent of the digital music market, rebounded from 2014 along with the growth of idol music, drawing a steep upward curve. Million sellers, who disappeared since the early 2000s, reappeared.

This is unusual in light of the global tendency of real records to regress.

Here, it is analyzed that the consumption pattern that recognizes the album as a'collection' containing various accessories rather than the means of listening to music, the global K-pop craze, the marketing strategy of the agency linking the fan event application ticket and the album, etc. have been affected.

Meanwhile, among the newcomers who made their debut in the first half of this year, Boy Group Cravity posted the highest ranking with 138,000 sales (21st place) as their debut album.

The first half of the album Top 100' is an idol singer's album, but unlike last year, it is also noticeable that two drama OSTs entered. The'Unexpected Love' OST was ranked 92nd, and the'Disciplinary Doctor Life' OST was ranked 95th.
 

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Provided'CJ ENM' OST of'Unexpected Love'. Resale and DB prohibition]

Drama OST also showed a strong presence in the Gaon chart'Digital Top 100' that compiled the ranking of sound sources during the same period. Of the top 100 songs, 19 songs, which are close to 20%, were drama OST.

The first half of the digital synthesis chart above is "no songs," second place Zico is 'Meteor' of changmo, third place is IU 'blooming' and 4 above Beom-Jun Jang is called "Marshmallow the constitution 'OST' four in swaying flowers The scent of shampoo' was felt, and the fifth place was'Red Velvet' Psycho.

Source: https://n.news.naver.com/entertain/article/001/0011720372

NB, this Google translated. Sorry for any mistakes!

[Drama Drama Drama]

Good to see the groups selling a lot despite not having a lot of fanmeeting for albums promos

[juu]

Aizu One

[Mrs. Morale]

21 minutes ago, juu said:

Aizu One

Google translation

[sergel]

I remember when we thought back in the mid 2010s album sales would be dying since we’re moving into the digital age more and more.

 

and here we are with tons of singers selling over 100k and even a million. 
 

I wonder how much Korea’s music industry has grown in the last 10 years.