Month-to-month Okay-pop CD gross sales surpass 10 million for first time
Month-to-month Okay-pop CD gross sales surpassed 10 million for the primary time, based on native album gross sales tracker Circle Chart (previously generally known as Gaon Chart).
Based on head researcher Kim Jin-woo of Circle Chart on Monday, bodily Okay-pop album gross sales in July elevated by 40.2 {09ec5e189e295255cf41ad3cf4b9553f29f116f623045a73133932ca9ffe3aaa} in comparison with the earlier month. The highest 400 albums on the chart offered over 10.8 million copies mixed; a 116.8 {09ec5e189e295255cf41ad3cf4b9553f29f116f623045a73133932ca9ffe3aaa} improve in comparison with July of 2021.
This marks the primary time for Okay-pop album gross sales to surpass 10 million copies in a single month since Circle Chart’s predecessor Gaon Chart launched in 2010,
The perfect-selling launch of July was woman group aespa’s EP “Women,” which offered greater than 1.64 million copies. Boy band Enhypen’s EP “Manifesto : Day 1” offered roughly 1.39 million copies; boy band Seventeen’s “Sector 17” 1.33 million; adopted by boy band Ateez, woman group ITZY, trot singers Kim Ho-joong and Youngtak, J-Hope of boy band BTS, BTS and STAYC.
Between January and July of this 12 months, over 46 million Okay-pop CDs have been offered; 1.5 million greater than the identical interval final 12 months.
“As Okay-pop idol teams’ fandoms are increasing globally, [CD] gross sales are growing to a stage that we had by no means seen earlier than,” stated head researcher Kim.
“Like [trot singer] Lim Younger-woong, [trot] largely sees home gross sales,” he added. “As Kim Ho-joong and Youngtak offered over 1,000,000 mixed, there was excellent news for the Korean CD market each globally and domestically.”
Whereas a lot of the top-selling albums of July had been new releases from that month, gross sales of albums that had been launched earlier accounted for greater than 10 {09ec5e189e295255cf41ad3cf4b9553f29f116f623045a73133932ca9ffe3aaa} of the entire. Kim analyzed that extra worldwide followers are discovering Okay-pop or new artists, main them to purchase older releases.
“The inflow of extra international followers will likely be an enduring pressure for the bodily CD market’s development,” he stated.
BY HALEY YANG [[email protected]]