SEOUL, 24 Dec. (Yonhap) — Physical sales of K-pop albums are on track to hit the 80 million unit mark in 2022, thanks to strong performances by boy band BTS and popular girl bands, according to Circle Chart. , a major local music chart.
Annual physical sales of K-pop’s top 400 albums stood at 74.2 million as of Dec. 10, up 29.9 percent from a year earlier, Circle Chart reported on Saturday. K-pop group BTS sold 6.07 million physical copies during the cited period, which pulled down overall non-EP sales.
Girl band album sales also surged this year. They accounted for 32.6% of all physical K-pop album sales in 2022, up 16.5 percentage points from the previous year, according to Circle Chart. The share of male singers, on the other hand, fell by 17.3 percentage points to 66.2%.
