From the 2019 K-POP album sales ranking
2019年K-POPアルバム売上ランキングから
2019年K-POPアルバム売上ランキングから
10 K-pop female groups with over 50,000 album sales in 2019: Twice, BlackPink, IZOne...
A list was posted on an online community as "10 female groups who sold over 50,000 (solo) albums in 2019." The rankings are as follows:
1st place→▲371,089 copies: TWICE “Fancy You” (Fancy) 2nd place → ▲285,521 copies: BlackPink “Kill This Love” (Kill This Love) 3rd place → ▲246,864 copies: IZOne “HEART*IZ” (Violeta) 4th place → ▲182,210 copies: Red Velvet “The ReVe Festival Day 1” 5th place → ▲92,640 copies: Gfriend “Time for Us” (Sunrise) 6th place→▲78,381 photos: Space Girls “For the Summer” (Boogie Up) 7th place → ▲77,109 pieces: ITZY “IT`z ICY” (ICY) 8th place → ▲67,033 copies: Mamamoo “White Wind” (gogobebe) 9th place→▲60,392 photos: fromis_9 “Fun Factory" (Fun!)
10th place → -54,419 copies: Loveyz "Once Upon A Time" (Beautiful Days)
Even if I ranked the top 10 based on my own image without paying attention to the data, I think the top 10 would have looked something like this.
The only group that might not have made it is fromis_9. I might have added OH MY GIRL instead.
There seems to be a gap between 1st to 4th and 5th to 10th.
BlackPink is sandwiched between 1st place TWICE and 3rd place IZOne, and there is a slight difference in numbers between them.
There is a strangeness to the waves of popularity there.
I wonder if IZOne's debut and success are to blame for this fluctuation.
Let's think about the popularity of girls before IZOne's debut.
TWICE and BlackPink made their debut in Japan one after the other with different styles and achieved great success.
Since then, a battle between two up-and-coming K-pop girls has been born.
★A little while before this, K-pop in Japan was in a slump.
Let's look at how TWICE looked when they first entered the Japanese market.
To put it simply, they felt like a Japanese version of Girls' Generation.
Looking at the group as a whole, that wasn't the case.
However, the three Japanese members (probably) strongly retained the visual image of Girls' Generation.
If you were watching TWICE's stage with Sana, Momo, and Mina at the center, it's easy to imagine that it would have felt similar to Girls' Generation's stage.
On the other hand, the Korean members had a cute, approachable quality.
It was only natural that they would appeal to new fans and become more popular with each performance.
BlackPink debuted as a girl crush in 2010 and entered Japan.
They unearthed the dormant traditional K-pop fans and filled the Nippon Budokan with their concerts.
With TWICE and BlackPink competing against each other, girl groups have become a hot topic, and we've seen more and more articles about Red Velvet's activities.
Isn't it Red Velvet that has belatedly risen to prominence, filling the gap between TWICE and BlackPink?
They have also appeared more frequently in Japan, and comments have been made online calling them the top three, adding Red Velvet to TWICE and BlackPink.
However, when IZOne debuted and began their activities in October last year, a different wave seems to have occurred.
This different wave is as follows:
With IZOne's debut, a considerable number of TWICE fans ONCE became omnivorous, along with IZOne fans.
On the other hand, IZOne has attracted AKB fans, and some of these fans have been exposed to TWICE's music.
And this also makes them omnivorous.
It's likely that some fans of both groups have also gone over to BlackPink, but it's probably a minority.
In other words, TWICE and IZOne have expanded their fan bases with each other, with IZOne overtaking Red Velvet to take third place, and TWICE pulling away from second-place BlackPink.
Well, that might be more accurate to call it a fantasy than an analysis.
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