Half a year has passed and that would be the Top 10 best-selling Korean acts so far in 2021. Sales range from the week 2020/12/14~2020/12/20 (2020/12/28付) until the week 2021/06/21~2021/06/27 (2021/07/05付).
BTS dominates the year once again among Korean artists, with a total of 1.3 million copies sold spread across 20 releases (Korean and Japanese). Their most recent release, <BTS, THE BEST> is also the best-selling album in Japan with 858,237 copies sold, and the 2nd best-selling release behind the single <Grandeur> by the Japanese boy band Snow Man with 958,768 copies sold.
TWICE is the only girl group on the list with a total of 196K copies sold spread across 10 releases (Korean and Japanese).
ENHYPEN stands out in this list as the youngest group since their debut (7 months), with a total of 140K copies sold with only 2 Korean releases and will soon be their debut in Japan, so it's expected that they can occupy the Top 3 of this list.
The only groups on the list without a Japanese release this year are ASTRO and Stray Kids, who have seen a surprising growth in popularity this year in the country, resulting in their old Korean albums selling well, it's possible that both groups could sell quite high in their next Japanese release.
- 01. BTS — 1,398,167 copies sold
BTS, THE BEST — 858,237 copies sold
BE — 226,823 copies sold
MAP OF THE SOUL : 7 ～THE JOURNEY～ — 45,131 copies sold
MAP OF THE SOUL : 7 — 39,579 copies sold
LOVE YOURSELF 結 'Answer' — 39,318 copies sold
MAP OF THE SOUL : PERSONA — 32,686 copies sold
LOVE YOUSELF 轉 'Tear' — 25,217 copies sold
WINGS — 24,263 copies sold
LOVE YOURSELF 承 'Her' — 23,465 copies sold
FACE YOURSELF — 15,526 copies sold
花様年華 Young Forever — 14,906 copies sold
THE BEST OF 防弾少年団 －JAPAN EDITION－ — 12,221 copies sold
花様年華 pt.2 — 8,307 copies sold
花様年華 pt.1 — 7,640 copies sold
O!RUL8,2? — 6,020 copies sold
SKOOL LUV AFFAIR SPECIAL ADDITION — 6,011 copies sold
SKOOL LUV AFFAIR — 5,585 copies sold
DARK&WILD — 5,548 copies sold
Lights/Boy With Luv — 1,042 copies sold
YOUTH — 642 copies sold
- 02. SEVENTEEN — 706,458 copies sold
ひとりじゃない — 422,350 copies sold
Your Choice — 192,533 copies sold
24H — 27,156 copies sold
; [Semicolon] — 26,820 copies sold
Heng:garae — 12,492 copies sold
DIRECTOR'S CUT — 6,548 copies sold
舞い落ちる花びら(Fallin' Flower) — 5,795 copies sold
Happy Ending — 4,663 copies sold
WE MAKE YOU — 3,527 copies sold
An Ode — 3,302 copies sold
YOU MADE MY DAWN — 1,272 copies sold
- 03. TXT — 246,064 copies sold
STILL DREAMING — 108,150 copies sold
The Chaos Chapter: FREEZE — 89,412 copies sold
minisode1 : Blue Hour — 16,614 copies sold
The Dream Chapter: MAGIC — 10,846 copies sold
The Dream Chapter: ETERNITY — 9,916 copies sold
The Dream Chapter: STAR — 6,618 copies sold
DRAMA — 2,398 copies sold
MAGIC HOUR — 2,110 copies sold
- 04. TWICE — 196,909 copies sold
Kura Kura — 94,707 copies sold
Taste of Love — 37,131 copies sold
Eyes wide open — 17,683 copies sold
BETTER — 14,311 copies sold
#TWICE3 — 9,208 copies sold
MORE & MORE — 5,059 copies sold
TWICEcoaster — 4,000 copies sold
PAGE TWO — 3,200 copies sold
Fanfare — 3,088 copies sold
Feel Special — 2,301 copies sold
SIGNAL — 1,420 copies sold
What is Love? — 1,347 copies sold
twicetagram — 1,090 copies sold
#TWICE2 — 692 copies sold
Summer Nights — 358 copies sold
THE STORY BEGINS — 345 copies sold
#TWICE — 313 copies sold
&TWICE — 309 copies sold
YES or YES — 180 copies sold
HAPPY HAPPY — 167 copies sold
- 05. NCT 127 — 175,003 copies sold
LOVEHOLIC — 156,540 copies sold
NCT #127 Neo Zone — 8,960 copies sold
Awaken — 5,059 copies sold
NCT #127 Regular-Irregular — 2,988 copies sold
NCT #127 LIMITLESS — 662 copies sold
NCT #127 — 422 copies sold
WE ARE SUPERHUMAN — 196 copies sold
NCT #127 CHERRY BOMB — 176 copies sold
- 06. ENHYPEN — 140,994 copies sold
BORDER : CARNIVAL — 112,390 copies sold
BORDER : DAY ONE — 28,604 copies sold
- 07. TREASURE — 97,630 copies sold
THE FIRST STEP : TREASURE EFFECT (Japanese Album) — 67,522 copies sold
THE FIRST STEP : TREASURE EFFECT (Korean Album) — 30,108 copies sold
- 08. NCT DREAM — 91,625 copies sold
Hot Sauce — 74,535 copies sold
THE DREAM — 8,367 copies sold
Reload — 4,937 copies sold
We Boom — 2,362 copies sold
We Go Up — 1,069 copies sold
We Young — 355 copies sold
- 09. ASTRO — 90,764 copies sold
All Yours — 56,296 copies sold
GATEWAY — 11,470 copies sold
BLUE FLAME — 4,615 copies sold
All Light — 3,725 copies sold
Winter Dream — 2,957 copies sold
Dream Part.02 — 2,726 copies sold
Autumn Story — 2,706 copies sold
Dream Part.01 — 2,668 copies sold
Summer Vibes — 1,802 copies sold
Spring Up — 1,799 copies sold
- 10. Stray Kids — 88,563 copies sold
TOP -Japanese ver.- — 23,772 copies sold
GO生 — 19,867 copies sold
ALL IN — 10,633 copies sold
SKZ2020 — 9,537 copies sold
I am NOT — 5,603 copies sold
I am WHO — 4,524 copies sold
Clé 1 : MIROH — 4,365 copies sold
Clé : LEVANTER — 4,247 copies sold
Clé 2 : Yellow Wood — 2,560 copies sold
I am YOU — 1,778 copies sold
Mixtape — 1,677 copies sold
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