Here Are The 10 Top-Selling K-Pop Artists On Oricon For The First Half Of 2021
Oricon, similar to Gaon and Hanteo in South Korea, is a Japanese music company that provides statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. The sales charts for albums and other electronic media that the company creates are determined by data collected from around 39,700 retail outlets, and are updated weekly.
With K-Pop becoming increasingly popular outside of South Korea, and especially with more Japanese singles and Japanese versions of K-Pop songs being created, the music genre has done well in the country in terms of album sales this year! Here are the 10 best-selling K-Pop artists in Japan for the first half of 2021, based on Oricon’s data.
10. Stray Kids
Total album sales for the first half of 2021: 88,563 copies
Top 5 best-selling albums:
- TOP (Japanese Version): 23.8k sales
- Go Live: 19.9k sales
- All In: 10.6k sales
- SKZ2020: 9.5k sales
- I am NOT: 5.6k sales
9. ASTRO
Total album sales for the first half of 2021: 90,764 copies
Top 5 best-selling albums:
- All Yours: 56.3k sales
- Gateway: 11.5k sales
- Blue Flame: 4.6k sales
- All Light: 3.7k sales
- Winter Dream: 3.0k sales
8. NCT Dream
Total album sales for the first half of 2021: 91,625 copies
Top 5 best-selling albums:
- Hot Sauce: 74.5k sales
- The Dream: 8.4k sales
- Reload: 4.9k sales
- We Boom: 2.4k sales
- We Go Up: 1.1k sales
7. TREASURE
Total album sales for the first half of 2021: 97,630 copies
Top 2 best-selling albums:
- The First Step: Treasure Effect (Japanese Version): 67.5k sales
- The First Step: Treasure Effect: 30.1k sales
6. ENHYPEN
Total album sales for the first half of 2021: 140,994 copies
Top 2 best-selling albums:
- Border: Carnival: 112.4k sales
- Border: Day One: 28.6k sales
5. NCT 127
Total album sales for the first half of 2021: 175,003 copies
Top 5 best-selling albums:
- Loveholic: 156.5k sales
- Neo Zone: 9.0k sales
- Awaken: 5.1k sales
- Regular-Irregular: 3.0k sales
- Limitless: 662 sales
4. TWICE
Total album sales for the first half of 2021: 196,909 copies
Top 5 best-selling albums:
- Kura Kura: 94.7k sales
- Taste of Love: 37.1k sales
- Eyes Wide Open: 17.7k sales
- Better: 14.3k sales
- #TWICE3: 9.2k sales
3. TXT
Total album sales for the first half of 2021: 246,064 copies
Top 5 best-selling albums:
- Still Dreaming: 108.2k sales
- The Chaos Chapter: Freeze: 89.4k sales
- Minisode1: Blue Hour: 16.6k sales
- The Dream Chapter: Magic: 10.8k sales
- The Dream Chapter: Eternity: 9.9k sales
2. SEVENTEEN
Total album sales for the first half of 2021: 706,458 copies
Top 5 best-selling albums:
- Not Alone: 422.4k sales
- Your Choice: 192.5k sales
- 24H: 27.2k sales
- ; [Semicolon]: 26.8k sales
- Heng:garae: 12.5k sales
1. BTS
Total album sales for the first half of 2021: 1,398,167 copies
Top 5 best-selling albums:
- BTS, The Best: 858.2k sales
- BE: 226.8k sales
- Map of the Soul: 7 ~The Journey~: 45.1k sales
- Map of the Soul: 7: 39.6k sales
- Love Yourself: Answer: 39.3k sales
