SEOUL, July 10 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop band BTS’ latest album “Map of the Soul: 7″ was the most-sold album in the United States in the first half of 2020, a global music sales measurement company said Friday. Nielsen Music’s U.S. Mid-Year Report for 2020 showed that “Map of the Soul: 7,” BTS’ fourth full-length [...]
SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop group BTS was the biggest seller of music in album format in Japan during the first half of 2020, according to Japan’s main music sales tracker Friday. “Map of the Soul: 7,” the septet’s studio album released in February, has sold 429,009 copies in Japan to date to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Pre-orders for K-pop super band BTS’ upcoming album have topped the 4 million mark, the biggest pre-order volume ever for a South Korean album. Pre-orders for “Map of the Soul: 7,” set for official release on Friday, reached 4.02 million copies as of Monday, BTS’ management agency, Big Hit [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — IZ*ONE has shattered a first-week sales record for albums by girl groups of all time with its new album, the band’s management agency said Tuesday. The group’s first full-length album “Bloom*Iz” sold some 184,000 copies within the first day of its release Monday at 6 p.m., Off the Record [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superstars BTS’ latest “Map of the Soul: Persona” has sold more than 3.22 million copies, marking an all-time high in number of albums sold, a market tracker said Thursday. The accumulated sales for the band’s seven-track EP, released on April 12, came to a record 3,229,032 in April [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy band BTS finished the year 2018 as the second-highest album seller in the United States, behind Eminem, U.S. data showed Tuesday. The 2018 report on U.S. Music Industry Consumption by Buzz Angle Music showed BTS sold 603,307 albums last year, coming after the top seller Eminem’s 755,027. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy group EXO has achieved a major milestone in the Korean music industry with more than 10 million cumulative album sales, its agency said Monday. SM Entertainment said more than 12 million copies of the group’s albums — five full-length albums, two EPs, a winter special album and [...]