Thanks to 'EXO bts and TWICE Wanna One and Seventeen', "Korea is a CD sales giant"

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As the distribution of digital sound sources has become common in all worlds, the sales volume of Bigger Than Life albums such as CDs has been declining sharply, and it is showing a great increase every year in Korea.According to the Gaon Music Chart on the 6th, the total sales of the albums, which ranked the top 400 in album sales last year, reached 24.59 million, up 7.8 percent from 2018 (228.2 million).There is a positive aspect that the music market is activated, but it is also criticized as a result of excessive description aimed at idol fandom.Domestic record sales volume ranged from 7 million to 8 million from 2011 to 2015, when Gaon Music Chart started counting.Then, it surpassed 10 million in 2016, increased by 56.8% the following year to 16.93 million, and in 2018 it increased by 34.7% again, exceeding 20 million.This is a very rare case for World: Bigger Than Life album sales declines are evident in the United States, which is the biggest music market in World.Album sales, including digital sound sources, fell more than 57% from 331 million in 2011 to 141 million in 2018, while CD sales plummeted from 200 million in 2012 to 52 million in 2018.Even in Japan, where Bigger Than Life is still selling a lot, things are not much different.Sales of recordings, which were 215 million copies in 2012, gradually declined and halved to 137 million copies in 2018.The reason why domestic music sales volume is so large is the strong fandom of K-pop idol group.In fact, the top five album sales teams sold more than 10 million copies last year, with sales of 5 teams from 6th to 10th reaching 3 million copies.All of the top 10 singers are idol groups or idol group members.The surge in record sales in recent years is due to the rapid rise of BTS and TWICE.The market has grown sharply with the addition of BTS and TWICE to the music market led by EXO by 2015, and the market has been growing rapidly since then, said Kim Jin-woo, senior researcher at Gaon Music Chart.It is an old marketing technique to pack the albums of idol groups in different compositions for each member, or to increase the sales volume by increasing the marketability with pictorials, photo cards, and posters.In recent years, in order to increase sales volume, buying an album has a great effect on how to apply for fan meetings or fan signings.If the former method has the effect of inducing a consumer to purchase up to 10 CDs, the latter has the effect of purchasing up to 200 CDs, which has a great impact on sales.In fact, when you go to an Internet fan cafe of a famous idol group, you can find it difficult to say, I bought 100 CDs for the fan signing.As this phenomenon is deepening mainly in idol groups, there is a critical view in the industry.Its often seen that we buy dozens of CDs for fan signing applications and then throw them away with a few left, but its bitter because the album seems to have lost its value as music, said an official at a music company.It is time to fundamentally consider whether CDs sold as additional products for fan signing applications and photo card collection should be included in the traditional music market category or in the product market, such as photo books, said Kim Jin-woo, a researcher.
As the distribution of digital sound sources has become common in all worlds, the sales volume of Bigger Than Life albums such as CDs has been declining sharply, and it is showing a great increase every year in Korea.According to the Gaon Music Chart on the 6th, the total sales of the albums, which ranked the top 400 in album sales last year, reached 24.59 million, up 7.8 percent from 2018 (228.2 million).There is a positive aspect that the music market is activated, but it is also criticized as a result of excessive description aimed at idol fandom.Domestic record sales volume ranged from 7 million to 8 million from 2011 to 2015, when Gaon Music Chart started counting.Then, it surpassed 10 million in 2016, increased by 56.8% the following year to 16.93 million, and in 2018 it increased by 34.7% again, exceeding 20 million.This is a very rare case for World: Bigger Than Life album sales declines are evident in the United States, which is the biggest music market in World.Album sales, including digital sound sources, fell more than 57% from 331 million in 2011 to 141 million in 2018, while CD sales plummeted from 200 million in 2012 to 52 million in 2018.Even in Japan, where Bigger Than Life is still selling a lot, things are not much different.Sales of recordings, which were 215 million copies in 2012, gradually declined and halved to 137 million copies in 2018.The reason why domestic music sales volume is so large is the strong fandom of K-pop idol group.In fact, the top five album sales teams sold more than 10 million copies last year, with sales of 5 teams from 6th to 10th reaching 3 million copies.All of the top 10 singers are idol groups or idol group members.The surge in record sales in recent years is due to the rapid rise of BTS and TWICE.The market has grown sharply with the addition of BTS and TWICE to the music market led by EXO by 2015, and the market has been growing rapidly since then, said Kim Jin-woo, senior researcher at Gaon Music Chart.It is an old marketing technique to pack the albums of idol groups in different compositions for each member, or to increase the sales volume by increasing the marketability with pictorials, photo cards, and posters.In recent years, in order to increase sales volume, buying an album has a great effect on how to apply for fan meetings or fan signings.If the former method has the effect of inducing a consumer to purchase up to 10 CDs, the latter has the effect of purchasing up to 200 CDs, which has a great impact on sales.In fact, when you go to an Internet fan cafe of a famous idol group, you can find it difficult to say, I bought 100 CDs for the fan signing.As this phenomenon is deepening mainly in idol groups, there is a critical view in the industry.Its often seen that we buy dozens of CDs for fan signing applications and then throw them away with a few left, but its bitter because the album seems to have lost its value as music, said an official at a music company.It is time to fundamentally consider whether CDs sold as additional products for fan signing applications and photo card collection should be included in the traditional music market category or in the product market, such as photo books, said Kim Jin-woo, a researcher.
As the distribution of digital sound sources has become common in all worlds, the sales volume of Bigger Than Life albums such as CDs has been declining sharply, and it is showing a great increase every year in Korea.According to the Gaon Music Chart on the 6th, the total sales of the albums, which ranked the top 400 in album sales last year, reached 24.59 million, up 7.8 percent from 2018 (228.2 million).There is a positive aspect that the music market is activated, but it is also criticized as a result of excessive description aimed at idol fandom.Domestic record sales volume ranged from 7 million to 8 million from 2011 to 2015, when Gaon Music Chart started counting.Then, it surpassed 10 million in 2016, increased by 56.8% the following year to 16.93 million, and in 2018 it increased by 34.7% again, exceeding 20 million.This is a very rare case for World: Bigger Than Life album sales declines are evident in the United States, which is the biggest music market in World.Album sales, including digital sound sources, fell more than 57% from 331 million in 2011 to 141 million in 2018, while CD sales plummeted from 200 million in 2012 to 52 million in 2018.Even in Japan, where Bigger Than Life is still selling a lot, things are not much different.Sales of recordings, which were 215 million copies in 2012, gradually declined and halved to 137 million copies in 2018.The reason why domestic music sales volume is so large is the strong fandom of K-pop idol group.In fact, the top five album sales teams sold more than 10 million copies last year, with sales of 5 teams from 6th to 10th reaching 3 million copies.All of the top 10 singers are idol groups or idol group members.The surge in record sales in recent years is due to the rapid rise of BTS and TWICE.The market has grown sharply with the addition of BTS and TWICE to the music market led by EXO by 2015, and the market has been growing rapidly since then, said Kim Jin-woo, senior researcher at Gaon Music Chart.It is an old marketing technique to pack the albums of idol groups in different compositions for each member, or to increase the sales volume by increasing the marketability with pictorials, photo cards, and posters.In recent years, in order to increase sales volume, buying an album has a great effect on how to apply for fan meetings or fan signings.If the former method has the effect of inducing a consumer to purchase up to 10 CDs, the latter has the effect of purchasing up to 200 CDs, which has a great impact on sales.In fact, when you go to an Internet fan cafe of a famous idol group, you can find it difficult to say, I bought 100 CDs for the fan signing.As this phenomenon is deepening mainly in idol groups, there is a critical view in the industry.Its often seen that we buy dozens of CDs for fan signing applications and then throw them away with a few left, but its bitter because the album seems to have lost its value as music, said an official at a music company.It is time to fundamentally consider whether CDs sold as additional products for fan signing applications and photo card collection should be included in the traditional music market category or in the product market, such as photo books, said Kim Jin-woo, a researcher.

As the distribution of digital sound sources has become common in all Worlds, the sales volume of Bigger Than Life albums such as CDs has been declining sharply, and it is showing a great increase every year in Korea.

According to the Gaon Music Chart on the 6th, the total sales of the albums, which ranked the top 400 in album sales last year, reached 24.59 million, up 7.8 percent from 2018 (228.2 million). There is a positive aspect that the music market is activated, but it is also criticized as a result of excessive description aimed at idol fandom.

Domestic record sales volume ranged from 7 million to 8 million from 2011 to 2015, when Gaon Music Chart started counting. Then, it surpassed 10 million in 2016, increased by 56.8% the following year to 16.93 million, and in 2018 it increased by 34.7% again, exceeding 20 million.

This is a very rare case for World: Bigger Than Life album sales declines are evident in the United States, which is the biggest music market in World. Album sales, including digital sound sources, fell more than 57% from 331 million in 2011 to 141 million in 2018, while CD sales plummeted from 200 million in 2012 to 52 million in 2018. Even in Japan, where Bigger Than Life is still selling a lot, things are not much different. Sales of recordings, which were 215 million copies in 2012, gradually declined and halved to 137 million copies in 2018.

The reason why domestic music sales volume is so large is the strong fandom of K-pop idol group. In fact, the top five album sales teams sold more than 10 million copies last year, with sales of 5 teams from 6th to 10th reaching 3 million copies. All of the top 10 singers are idol groups or idol group members.

The surge in record sales in recent years is due to the rapid rise of bts and TWICE. “The market has grown sharply with the addition of bts and TWICE to the music market led by EXO by 2015, and the market has been growing rapidly since then,” said Kim Jin-woo, senior researcher at Gaon Music Chart.

It is an old marketing technique to pack the albums of idol groups in different compositions for each member, or to increase the sales volume by increasing the marketability with pictorials, photo cards, and posters. In recent years, in order to increase sales volume, buying an album has a great effect on how to apply for fan meetings or fan signings.

If the former method has the effect of inducing a consumer to purchase up to 10 CDs, the latter has the effect of purchasing up to 200 CDs, which has a great impact on sales. In fact, when you go to an Internet fan cafe of a famous idol group, you can find it difficult to say, "I bought 100 CDs for the fan signing."

As this phenomenon is deepening mainly in idol groups, there is a critical view in the industry. “It’s often seen that we buy dozens of CDs for fan signing applications and then throw them away with a few left, but it’s bitter because the album seems to have lost its value as music,” said an official at a music company. “It is time to fundamentally consider whether CDs sold as additional products for fan signing applications and photo card collection should be included in the traditional music market category or in the product market, such as photo books,” said Kim Jin-woo, a researcher.