Artists:
Singles:
Albums (all consumption)
Albums (pure sales):
Meanwhile, top selling albums according to IFPI in Korea (in Korea, not Korean artists!):
So most kpop groups sales did get reported, but they were filtered out or significantly downweighted?
edit: mystery solved: RE: IFPI finally revealed top 20 for their charts (discussion)
Discuss!
Bad Bunny only 17 on the Artist chart? WOW.
WAP was right below Dynamite, holy fuck.
BTS is the only Korean artist on the All-format albums list.
Ok, and for the last list, it's basically confirmed that SM and pledis didn't send in any numbers for any of the NCT units or SVT.
How the fuck did Kim Hojoong get on but not both Resonance albums AND Heng:garae??
Display MoreBad Bunny only 17 on the Artist chart? WOW.
WAP was right below Dynamite, holy fuck.
BTS is the only Korean artist on the All-format albums list.
Ok, and for the last list, it's basically confirmed that SM and pledis didn't send in any numbers for any of the NCT units or SVT.
How the fuck did Kim Hojoong get on but not both Resonance albums AND Heng:garae??
SM did send data and tried to combine all NCT sales, they're on IFPI report's country page.
Even if we used the hypothetical rule that anything less than 7 songs is weighted as .5 (like we thought happened to Persona), Heng:garae would still be around #14.
The Album at #12 for all format for albums lol tf
Even if they didn't count subunits, both resonance albums should have made the pure sales list.
It makes no sense since the albums are actually more expensive than their American counterparts.
I dont know. Its weird.
Yeah it's not consistent, I feel like IFPI is struggling to integrate K-pop album sales, or something like that.
You had a good line of thinking, but IFPI is not being transparent again.
SevenTyn? 
I don't know, someone would have to compile the data of how many versions the other albums have.
SevenTyn?
Conclusion: we shouldn't take the IFPI that seriously.
Conclusion: we shouldn't take the IFPI that seriously.
Their artist, album and singles lists make sense. Its only the pure sales chart that seems weird.
Wait what? How can albums sell more on one chart and not appear on the other? It's weird? In Korea NCT and 17 are ahead of BP, but in Pure Sales they are below Kim Ho Joong? It's like discounting them for no reason right?
It's not like it's because they are lowering Korean sales value compare to the global acts since KHJ sold 90% of his albums domestically and has, afaik, no global distribution or US label backing him?
It's also strange since Twice had higher pure sales than KJH and Lady Gaga too and couldn't have been discounted when they only have 3 versions on sale while other groups have more...
It's interesting that some acts got 0 discount or equalization others got butchered by it? That or they were either ignored or not submitted?
Edit: Maybe playing dirty to minimize the SK representation in the Pure sales list since it should have 17, NCT, Beakhyun and even potentially Twice on it based on the numbers above.
Display MoreWait what? How can albums sell more on one chart and not appear on the other? It's weird? In Korea NCT and 17 are ahead of BP, but in Pure Sales they are below Kim Ho Joong? It's like discounting them for no reason right?
It's not like it's because they are lowering Korean sales value compare to the global acts since KHJ sold 90% of his albums domestically and has, afaik, no global distribution or US label backing him?
It's also strange since Twice had higher pure sales than KJH and Lady Gaga too and couldn't have been discounted when they only have 3 versions on sale while other groups have more...
It's interesting that some acts got 0 discount or equalization others got butchered by it? That or they were either ignored or not submitted?
Edit: Maybe playing dirty to minimize the SK representation in the Pure sales list since it should have 17, NCT, Beakhyun and even potentially Twice on it based on the numbers above.
Oh shit Twice should have been there too. The pure sales list is making so much less sense as time goes on.
It's BTS's world..
and we're all just living in it.
Oh shit Twice should have been there too. The pure sales list is making so much less sense as time goes on.
If not for Kim Ho-Joong I would assume it had way way more valuation toward digitals, but globally his digitals/streams were far lower than NCT, 17, Beakhyun, etc so it just doesn't make sense....
Edit tough I doubt Twice were submitted, I mean we're talking Republic Records here the same company that once posted a happy anniversary to Twice with a GIdle picture.
I don't know, someone would have to compile the data of how many versions the other albums have.
I doubt it's the amount of versions since there's 20+ versions of Folklore
and we're all just living in it.
I wrote half thinking at least someone will get it and complete the rest. But damn, that was quick.
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