Visual Representations of The Best Selling Lists for Korean Acts in 2021

TXT barely made top 10 best selling boy groups last year. Now they’re comfortably in the top 5…

LIGHTSUM coming for #2 with LAW.

Stray Kids with one release in the entire year

Purple Kiss and TXT doing great!!!!

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Is this just for 2021 albums or does it include back catalog?

I really want to find out how Ateez's back catalog is selling for some reason. I hear that KQ is doing really well at keeping it in stock and I'm wondering if their sales bump has impacted it there as well.

Also heck yeah Bambam in the top ten for male soloists. Thai Ahgases really came through for him.

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KQ could do better honestly, TXT and SKZ have multiple old albums that have sold 50k+, a few even over 100k just this year. Even ENHYPEN's debut has sold more than 100k this year.

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to be fair. Enhypen's debut albums 3rd month of sales was in 2021 already.... but yeah. BH and JYP seem to have done better with re-stocking (tbh BH has had good practice at restocking thanks to BTS's back catalog sales )

B:DO is consistently selling like 10k every month, its release date is negligent to my point.

Red Velvet is third with only one release this year

Gaon best selling artists of 2021 : Mark and Haechan

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i know i'm just saying it does somewhat benefit from that release. It would still have high back catalogue either way though

In that case, Blue Hour benefits too. But there are tons of other albums that were released late 2020 that have low sales this year. See my point?

Red Velvet doing well with one release and Joy/Wendy are in the top 5 for female soloists. And of course BTS back catalog is selling se well.

Imma rob Hybe, they're rich

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I was going to say why is Baekhyun in the boygroups list but realized it's the best selling artists so no female act made it this year

Can't wait to see how well aespa rank with their first and only release this year