SM really dominating physical sales this year (jan-may Hanteo chart)

The biggest surprise is the complete 180 YG has done on physicals. They only cared and dominate digitals. YG used to never care or put any effort into physical sales.

It was only since last year YG really started caring about physical sales and they're already #3 this year and BLACKPINK, TREASURE and BIGBANG are still set to release albums this year.

The real winner is YGPlus, who distributes for the #2 and #3 physical selling companies this year so far...and will end the year as the #1 distributor.

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I said it could be a real competition this year between SM and Hybe for most album sales and people thought i was trolling lol. If BTS only comes back once with an album and doesnt do outrageous numbers (they stay around 5 million in GAON and 3m in Hanteo) we could see a real battle. I'm talking sales of 2021 albums of course, not counting all the back catalogue sales.

Due to Nct dream & 127 & Exo, they stand a chance

But don't forget hybe also has a potential 2M album seller in 17

HYBE will probably do up to 11M-12M albums sales this year, I doubt SM can reach 10M

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The biggest surprise is the complete 180 YG has done on physicals. They only cared and dominate digitals. YG used to never care or put any effort into physical sales.

It was only since last year YG really started caring about physical sales and they're already #3 this year and BLACKPINK, TREASURE and BIGBANG are still set to release albums this year.

The real winner is YGPlus, who distributes for the #2 and #3 physical selling companies this year so far...and will end the year as the #1 distributor.

Treasure did release an album in January tho?

Also not u sneaking in BB like we won't notice lol, they're not physical album sellers

Good for YG+ they surely getting a good cut from hybe sales

HYBE have 12-15M secured for the second half since seventeen and BTS will have probable 2 releases... And TXT and ENHYPE another one

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HYBE have 12-15M secured for the second half since seventeen and BTS will have probable 2 releases... And TXT and ENHYPEN another one

Wasn't it rumoured that TXT was going to have 3 comebacks this year? 700k per album or higher, Even if there's only 2 comeback again, that's going to secure a 2m total sale so TXT Domination!

Belift Lab placing 4th with only Enhypen

I wonder why the account only did "SM group albums" and not "SM artist albums." Seems silly to leave out Baekhyun when he sold over a million copies.

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Treasure did release an album in January tho?

Right, almost half of YG's numbers came from their release.

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Also not u sneaking in BB like we won't notice lol, they're not physical album sellers

People forget about BB's album sales because of their dominant digitals.

This chart is from October. All of BB's sales came from when YG gave zero effort into physicals.

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Good for YG+ they surely getting a good cut from hybe sales

Good for Big Hit as well. As one of their executives said, YGPlus' expertise and expansive network will be an advantage for them.