music Best Selling Albums of 2021!

[Blackout2006]

ALBUMS

COUNTDOWN 2021

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Olivia Rodrigo - Sour

Interscope / Geffen - 4.109.000 equivalent sales

Adele - 30

Columbia - 3.699.000 equivalent sales

Morgan Wallen - Dangerous: The Double Album

Big Loud / Republic - 3.505.000 equivalent sales

NCT Dream - Hot Sauce

Sony Music - 3.003.000 equivalent sales

Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia

Warner - 2.995.000 equivalent sales

Drake - Certified Lover Boy

OVO / Republic - 2.768.000 equivalent sales

Pop Smoke - Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon

Victor Victor / Republic - 2.692.000 equivalent sales

Justin Bieber - Justice

Def Jam - 2.558.000 equivalent sales

NCT 127 - Sticker (incl. Favorite)

Sony Music Entertainment - 2.500.000 equivalent sales

Seventeen - Attacca

Pledis Entertainment - 2.450.000 equivalent sales

The Kid Laroi - **** Love

Columbia - 2.331.000 equivalent sales

Harry Styles - Fine Line

Erskine / Columbia - 2.328.000 equivalent sales

The Weeknd - After Hours

XO Recordings / Republic - 2.292.000 equivalent sales

The Weeknd - The Highlights

XO Recordings / Republic - 2.122.000 equivalent sales

Doja Cat - Planet Her

Kemosabe / RCA - 2.115.000 equivalent sales

Taylor Swift - Evermore

Republic - 2.039.000 equivalent sales

BTS (Bangtan Boys) - BE

Big Hit Entertainment - 1.999.000 equivalent sales

Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever

Darkroom / Interscope - 1.988.000 equivalent sales

Seventeen - Your Choice

Pledis Entertainment - 1.822.000 equivalent sales

Juice WRLD - Legends Never Die

Grade A Productions / Interscope - 1.795.000 equivalent sales

Ariana Grande - Positions

Republic - 1.784.000 equivalent sales

Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?

Darkroom / Interscope - 1.762.000 equivalent sales

Tomorrow X Together - The Chaos Chapter: Freeze

Big Hit / Republic - 1.761.000 equivalent sales

Ed Sheeran - Equals

Asylum / Atlantic - 1.693.000 equivalent sales

Abba - Voyage

Polar Music / Universal - 1.680.000 equivalent sales

Post Malone - Hollywood's Bleeding

Republic - 1.576.000 equivalent sales

Queen - Greatest Hits

Hollywood / Parlophone - 1.574.000 equivalent sales

Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor's Version)

Republic - 1.572.000 equivalent sales

Taylor Swift - Folklore

Republic - 1.549.000 equivalent sales

Luke Combs - What You See Is What You Get

Columbia Nashville - 1.548.000 equivalent sales

Kanye West - Donda

G.O.O.D. / Def Jam - 1.524.000 equivalent sales

Taylor Swift - Fearless (Taylor's Version)

Republic - 1.430.000 equivalent sales

Ed Sheeran - Divide

Asylum / Atlantic - 1.365.000 equivalent sales

Enhypen - Dimension: Dilemma

Belift Lab - 1.364.000 equivalent sales

Lil Baby - My Turn

Capitol / Motown - 1.350.000 equivalent sales

BTS (Bangtan Boys) - Best Of

Big Hit Entertainment - 1.335.000 equivalent sales

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

Warner Bros. - 1.327.000 equivalent sales

Juice WRLD - Goodbye & Good Riddance

Grade A Productions / Interscope - 1.317.000 equivalent sales

J.Cole - The Off-Season

Dreamville / Roc Nation - 1.285.000 equivalent sales

Rod Wave - SoulFly

Alamo - 1.244.000 equivalent sales

SOURCE: MediaTraffic

@Jordan Miller @Slayer

[Moscow]

Media Traffic is one of the best estimators in this market, Adele will gather more sales as new single is coming out the good thing will Adele I see is that she is gathering huge pure sales which actually matters rather then SPS units. 

Apart from this, BTS domination is real. 

[I Always Sing Live]

4 hours ago, Prachi said:

Apart from this, BTS domination is real. 

K-Pop boy groups in general have crazy sales. There's like 6 other ones on that list besides BTS. It's kind of insane, tbh.

[Moscow]

Just now, I Always Sing Live said:

K-Pop boy groups in general have crazy sales. There's like 6 other ones on that list besides BTS. It's kind of insane, tbh.

I agree, but BTS is doing extraordinary they where the first male after MJ thriller to sell 1M+ on oricon chart in japan it took 17 years for someone to break the record.

[Живак]

good for miss olivia, happier than ever deserves top 3.

[I Always Sing Live]

Just now, Prachi said:

I agree, but BTS is doing extraordinary they where the first male after MJ thriller to sell 1M+ on oricon chart in japan it took 17 years for someone to break the record.

Yeah, they're in a league of their own. People say they're over every time they release something, but then they just end up breaking more records. I just opened r/kpop and this is what I saw:

Just when you thought CDs were slowly dying out... It's very impressive, but the environmental implications are kinda scary, tbh.

[Moscow]

8 minutes ago, I Always Sing Live said:

Yeah, they're in a league of their own. People say they're over every time they release something, but then they just end up breaking more records. I just opened r/kpop and this is what I saw:

Just when you thought CDs were slowly dying out... It's very impressive, but the environmental implications are kinda scary, tbh.

Currently vinyls are selling more than CDs let's see how market shifts over the years but with BTS they have everything.

[RadicalOptimism]

All because of ten Fadrigo Stan’s locked in their basement replaying *~* G00000ddd 4 yEeEeWwW*~* non stop while fighting with strangers online about why Fadrigo is the best selling female artist of all time 

[Blackout2006]

On 1/8/2022 at 4:41 PM, Prachi said:

Media Traffic is one of the best estimators in this market, Adele will gather more sales as new single is coming out the good thing will Adele I see is that she is gathering huge pure sales which actually matters rather then SPS units. 

Apart from this, BTS domination is real. 

Indeed. I do wish we could get hands over their measuring process since they are so opaque about it, hence, MediaTraffic not being taken seriously by Pop Stans. 

On 1/8/2022 at 9:30 PM, I Always Sing Live said:

Yeah, they're in a league of their own. People say they're over every time they release something, but then they just end up breaking more records. I just opened r/kpop and this is what I saw:

 

Yes   I am so happy that CD's and vinyls have been reviving in sales in the past 4 years

[Blackout2006]

On 1/8/2022 at 9:45 PM, CrazyButItFeelsAllright said:

All because of ten Fadrigo Stan’s locked in their basement replaying *~* G00000ddd 4 yEeEeWwW*~* non stop while fighting with strangers online about why Fadrigo is the best selling female artist of all time 

On 1/8/2022 at 9:28 PM, Живак said:

good for miss olivia, happier than ever deserves top 3.

Tea

[I Always Sing Live]

33 minutes ago, Blackout2006 said:

I am so happy that CD's and vinyls have been reviving in sales in the past 4 years

That graph only shows the sales of K-Pop albums.

[stanLOONA]

On 1/8/2022 at 1:30 PM, I Always Sing Live said:

Just when you thought CDs were slowly dying out... It's very impressive, but the environmental implications are kinda scary, tbh.

Sadly, this is too true to K-Pop. In forums you see boxes of albums in the streets because they take the photocard and throw the albums.

[stanLOONA]

On 1/8/2022 at 5:43 AM, Blackout2006 said:

Olivia Rodrigo - Sour

Interscope / Geffen - 4.109.000 equivalent sales

Adele - 30

Columbia - 3.699.000 equivalent sales

[I Always Sing Live]

33 minutes ago, stanLOONA said:

Sadly, this is too true to K-Pop. In forums you see boxes of albums in the streets because they take the photocard and throw the albums.

The companies are guilty too - if I'm not mistaken, the more albums you buy, the bigger your chances of getting into one of those fancall events.

[stanLOONA]

2 hours ago, I Always Sing Live said:

The companies are guilty too - if I'm not mistaken, the more albums you buy, the bigger your chances of getting into one of those fancall events.

That is true, and for fansigns. But the obsession for photocards is even crazier, because if 1 album gets more than 1 version (now it's so normal for at least 2 versions) you get a new photocard for each version, imagine with 20+ members like NCT