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Exo was selling on average 350k-400k Korean albums
They were selling the same for their Chinese ver. albums as well.
Their sales were not increasing as steadily as bts' with every comeback.
In fact you'd think that they had hit a plateau already, reaching the utmost peak in popularity that anyone would have achieved at that time being big in Korea and China.
It was the competition with BTS that made their sales jump from a comfortable 350-400k to 600k. Never once saw exo hit 600k preorders for an album release until after bts broke the album sales record by selling 500k+
BTS' case was different from Exo's
It was only a matter of time for BTS to be hitting numbers never seen before in kpop
how could anyone tell? well when you look at BTS' sales, you'd notice that they were on a consistent rise
where they doubled their album sales each time
I remember joining the fandom wondering if bts was even going to beat their previous album sales record
and one OG army told me she was confident because bts had never failed to double their sales
and they did.
With BTS' stats you can literally raise the question...was it really EXO that made them hit these numbers as people claim?
Or were they going to reach it any way?
You don't count just singular you count the entire amount combined.
K-pop was different back then people anticipated repackaged albums, and the fandom was split between Chinese and Korean. So you have to combine it and they sold regularly a million if you do.
Bts debuted the year exo broke record sales with xoxo and they reached their peak 2015, and bts was just getting big then. So it was a pass of the torch
But if exo hadn't of done what they did for K-pop, bts may have had a slower rise in comparison. Although we don't know for sure that's just what I observed. I had a feeling you'd reply this
