if you have more members does that mean more sales

Not necessarily

unless they have a dedicated enough fanbase and do different covers for each member

not really, blackpink has four members but they outsell ggs with more members like twice or izone

theres special cases like nct 2020 tho, they gathered members from all fixed units and managed to surpass 1M sales but their fixed units couldn't do it alone lol

Nope. Many members - people tend to avoid - smaller sales!

One the other side more diversity to grab fans - bigger sales!

So it isn't true!

Yes look izone Wanna one X1 even nct can depasseed exo soon in international and gp

But noW bp fans Buy the album cause one song by years ...

Most of the groups with good sales do have more than 5 members if u look into it but i don't think it matters. It's all about who can gather a big fandom. Baekhyun alone can sell 1M.

I think that only helps if they do those individual member album versions and if they have members from other Asian countries.

isn't it actually bad to have more members because then you'll have to share your profits between more members.

eg. BP has 4 members so any profits would get split 4 ways

Izone has 12 members so each member only receives 1/12 of the profit

More members means you raise the odds that the audience find a strong bias among the members. That's why the Japanese industry goes with an insane number of members like AKB48 (they're more like trainees in this case).

But, in my opinion the more members there are, the harder it is for the group to have an identity. I struggle to get emotionally involved in 10+ groups like IZ*ONE or LOONA because I don't know these girls. They're too many for me to get a grasp of who is who.

For this reason I think 4 or 5 members is the best.