First of all, BTS topped the “2021 Oricon Annual Albums Chart”. It is the first No.1 by an overseas artist in 37 years since Michael Jackson. On the chart, Seventeen also ranked fifth in the annual rankings, and as an overseas artist, they took 1st and 2nd place side by side with BTS. TXT and ENHYPEN‘s albums also achieved a splendid feat of topping the Oricon weekly albums chart, respectively.
HYBE artists account for about 26% of the total sales of the top 100 albums in Japan, which were calculated on the “2021 Oricon Annual Albums Chart”, as well as account for 73% of the total sales of Korean artists’ albums in Japan.
Even in Japan, the world’s second largest music market, HYBE artists also performed well. Japan has traditionally been a market with a high tendency for music fans to buy physical albums. HYBE explained that if you look at the “Oricon Annual Albums Chart 100”, which has the most credibility in Japan, you can see how strong the influence of a large fandom on the artist’s album sales volume is.
SOURCE: https://kbizoom.com/bts-pushes…lvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
