Nct Dream sold around 3.35 M copies of Hot Sauce + Hello Future
And Nct 127 sold 3.58M of Sticker + Favorite..
Resulting in total of 6.9M albums sold between the two units with their 2021 albums, as the article states.
(!Long sales post below)
+ This amount isn't taking into account the sales of their old albums (restocks) this year, which make it around 435k+ copies for Nct Dream and 279k+ for Nct 127 with their restocks, according to Gaon 1st half chart
QuoteDisplay More12. Nct 2020 - Resonance pt 2 - 492k
15. Wayv - Kick Back - 361k
25. Nct 2018 - Empathy - 194k
28. Nct Dream - We Boom - 172k
42. Nct 127 - Neo Zone - 119k
49. Nct Dream - The First - 109k
66. Nct Dream - We Go Up - 84k
68. Nct 127 - Neo Zone: the final round - 80k
69. Nct 127 - We Are Superhuman - 80k
71. Nct Dream - Reload - 71k
So both groups full combined sales in 2021 would be around 3.78M (Dream) and 3.85M (127) making it a total of 7.6 million albums sold this year!! With only 127 and Dream...
If this number isn't crazy enough, lets remember that nct 127's loveholic isn't included on this number since it's a japanese release, and that adding WAYV album sales (around 400k by now) and NCT sales (around 740k) this year, would make the number of albums sold between the 4 NCT units a total of 8.7M copies only in 2021!
and SM isn't satisfied yet!
NCT 2021 is coming soon with a physical release, so my guess is that 10 million albums sold could be very possible for the whole NCT this year, breaking huge records for SM!
Kinda crazy numbers for only one company in a single year... NCT went from being the company failure to their biggest album seller ever!