BLACKPINK Dominates Album Sales From Chinese Fandoms
The data show that Chinese fans of BLACKPINK bought a huge amount of albums among the K-Pop girl groups. Meanwhile, Irene (Red Velvet) was surprised by receiving unbelievable support.
In China, fans are usually active in communities called "Bar". In every comeback season, the Bar organizes to buy albums in large numbers, even the contribution of Chinese fans accounts for a large proportion of the album sales of many Kpop groups.
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Amounts of albums sales from Chinese fandoms of 20 Korean female idols:
1. Lisa (BLACKPINK): 131.555 copies (THE ALBUM)
2. Jennie (BLACKPINK): 103.416 copies (THE ALBUM)
3. Jisoo (BLACKPINK): 92.444 copies (THE ALBUM)
4. Rosé (BLACKPINK: 53.670 copies (THE ALBUM)
5. Irene (Red Velvet): 40.163 copies (Monster)
6. Sakura (IZ*ONE): 32.314 copies (Secret Story Of the Swan)
7. Tzuyu (TWICE): 25.145 copies (MORE & MORE)
8. Seulgi (Red Velvet): 22.268 copies (Monster)
9. Wonyoung (IZ*ONE): 18.709 copies (Secret Story Of the Swan)
10. Mina (TWICE): 16.863 copies (MORE & MORE)
11. Yuqi ((G)I-DLE): 16.180 copies (I Trust)
12. Nayeon (TWICE): 13.927 copies (MORE & MORE)
13. Yujin (IZ*ONE): 13.927 copies (Secret Story Of the Swan)
14. Hyewon (IZ*ONE): 11.401 copies (Secret Story Of the Swan)
15. Soyeon ((G)I-DLE): 11.020 copies (I Trust)
16. Yeji (ITZY): 12830 copies (Not Shy)
17. Ryujin (ITZY): 10.439 copies (Not Shy)
18. Yena (IZ*ONE): 10.407 copies (Secret Story Of the Swan)
19. Sana (TWICE): 10.062 copies (MORE & MORE)
20. Shuhua ((G)I-DLE): 8.648 copies (I Trust)
BLACKPINK can be seen occupying the first 4 positions in the list. The group's Chinese fandoms supported BLACKPINK's firts full album THE ALBUM with the total number of hard disks purchased by the 4 members' Individual Bar reached 385,085 copies. China market obviously took a big part in contributing for the title of million-seller of BLACKPINK.
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In which, Lisa took the lead with 131,555 hard disks - an overwhelming number among sisters and other Kpop female idols. Rosé's bar bought the album at least in the group (53,670 copies) but still left behind the 5th place. This proves that Chinese BLINK is extremely enormous and not even an exaggeration to say that BLACKPINK is the Korean girl group with most fans in the billion-people country.
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TWICE is the female group that sells the most albums in Kpop, but the contribution rate of Chinese fans is not as high as other idols. The highest ranking member is Tzuyu (No. 7), but the purchase of MORE & MORE albums from her Bar in June was only 25,145 copies.
On the contrary, the amount of album purchases by Irene Bar - the Chinese fan community of the leader of Red Velvet made many people impressed. When unit group IRENE & SEULGI released the mini album Monster in July, Irene's fans bought 40,163 records - double the sales of Seulgi Bar (22,268 copies).
Thanks to that, the oldest sister Red Velvet ranked 5th in the top 20 female idols who bought the most albums by Chinese fans in 2020, and she and Seulgi are also the only two idols from SM Entertainment to enter this list.