See I'll try to explain it easily....
GAON counts worldwide album shipments (including Japan) but not for Japanese albums.
Oricon counts sales in Japan for all albums (including Korean albums).
So GAON does include Oricon sales for Korean albums while we have to fully depend on Oricon and RIAJ for Japanese album's sales.
wow that's interesting
'Butter' is actually expensive for single album. For kpop albums number of songs don't matter. It's about contents. 'Butter' single CD has more content than regular k-pop album that's why it is more costly than even full length k-pop albums.
I think be: generated as much money as MOTS:7 despite selling half of it.
But I don’t understand this charts it’s based on USD, Won? No way an albums selling 2Millions can only make 10M
The index is not revenue generated. The index is to tell how much the sales would be if all albums were priced similarly.
Let's take Nayeon's album for example. 'Proof' has 11 times the sales of 'IM NAYEON' but 'Proof' index is 33 times that of 'IM NAYEON'. That means if both were priced similarly then 'Proof' would have sold 33 times more than 'IM NAYEON' when it has actually sold only 11 times just because of the price difference.
Hanteo actually shows revenue as well. I remember seeing 'Proof' having $86m revenue when it was at 2.8m sales on Hanteo.
The index is not revenue generated. The index is to tell how much the sales would be if all albums were priced similarly.
Let's take Nayeon's album for example. 'Proof' has 11 times the sales of 'IM NAYEON' but 'Proof' index is 33 times that of 'IM NAYEON'. That means if both were priced similarly then 'Proof' would have sold 33 times more than 'IM NAYEON' when it has actually sold only 11 times just because of the price difference.
Hanteo actually shows revenue as well. I remember seeing 'Proof' having $86m revenue when it was at 2.8m sales on Hanteo.
You explained it well.
It's exactly $96,339,649.7 with the price of 51.9 USD & 17 USD on weverse global. And if we're basing it on Hanteo numbers with the month of June & let's say 50% of sales are from standard ver then the other half from compact version. That's the baseline but it's more than that because when it was first released the prices were 55 USD & 21 USD until HYBE changed it. Just dk how many albums were sold during that time. Either way it's probably just a small gap like up to 100M USD or probably more lol.
I think be: generated as much money as MOTS:7 despite selling half of it.
Yes. I estimated that MOTS:7 generated somewhere between 100M USD - 105M USD, then BE 'Deluxe' edition generated 110M - 120M USD. Can't compute the exact amount due to shipments from other countries, but that's the ballpark. So yes, BE did not only generated as much money as M7, it edges it a bit due to the price tag.
Display MoreReally? Majority of kpop fans buy albums within their means. They are maxing their 'budget' for albums to support their favorite group/s and even if it means buying it multiple times with the same version (with the push of photocards). You might only buy one album, but a lot of fans especially collectors buy in bulk or multiple copies within their budget. And this is how the kpop industry thrives in. It's like saying that groups who's selling cheap digipacks will stay million sellers if they tripled the price next release. So yes, album pricing has a big effect in Kpop sales.
And although I did this to gauge their 'supposed' album sales for Proof due to Hanteo chart- I still believe that they can definitely do 10M copies with this release if they were doing the same as the rest of the groups.
Also look at the jump of album sales for every groups in 2020 VS. 2021. Everyone doubled their sales due to gimmicks and demand of kpop album overall except BTS. That's because after Mots7 they stopped doing the usual Kpop releases and HYBE somehow tripled or quadrupled their album pricing.
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Why did you write an essay when I already said it’ll increase but you can’t directly convert exactly like the way it’s in the OP lol. Also literally everyone knows everything you wrote here lol. Common knowledge. What I said wasn’t this.
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