K-pop has been making waves in the US music industry and last year was no exception. In 2022, K-pop artists dominated the top 10 best-selling CDs list in the US, released by US music data tracking company Luminate (formerly MRC Data). BTS’ album ‘Proof’ became the #1 best-selling CD in the US by a group or male artist in 2022 – and the second best-selling CD overall after Taylor Swift’s “Midnights” – sold 413,000 copies. Meanwhile, TXT’s “Mini Episode 2: Thursday in the Baby” took the #3 spot with 227,000 copies sold. Stray Kids, TWICE, ENHANCE and NCT 127 also made the top 10 list. Not only that, BTS and TXT also made a separate year-end list of the 10 best-selling albums of 2022 in the US, which includes not only CD sales, but also digital sales and other physical formats, such as vinyl. Congratulations to all the K-pop artists who made the list!
K-pop dominated last year’s best selling CD list in the US!
On January 11 local time, US music data tracking company Luminate (formerly MRC Data), which provides Billboard chart data, released its 2022 year-end list of best-selling CDs.
In the CD sales chart alone (not including digital download albums or other formats), K-pop artists took an impressive seven positions in the top 10. Stray Kids, TWICE, ENHANCE and NCT 127.
BTS’ album ‘Proof’ became the #1 best-selling CD in the US by a group or male artist in 2022 – and the second best-selling CD overall after To Taylor Swift “Midnights” – sold 413,000 copies.
Meanwhile, TXT “Mini Episode 2: Thursday in the Baby” became the #3 best-selling CD of the year with 227,000 copies sold in the United States.
Notably, Stray Kids were the only artist to enter the top 10 twice: their mini-album ‘ODDINARY’ took 5th place with 204,000 CDs sold, and ‘MAXIDENT’ took 7th place with 177,000 CDs sold.
TWICE, the only female group on the list, took 6th place with their mini-album ‘BETWEEN 1&2’, which sold 199,000 CDs.
ENHANCE’s “MANIFESTO: DAY 1” ranks 8th on the list with 173,000 CDs sold, and NCT 127’s “2 Baddies” rounds out the top ten with 148,000 CDs sold in the US last year.
The top 10 selling CDs of 2022 in the US are as follows:
- Taylor Swift – “Midnights” (640,000)
- BTS – “Proof” (413,000)
- TXT – “Minisode 2: Thursday’s Child” (227,000)
- Harry Styles – Harry’s House (219,000)
- Stray Kids – “ODDINARY” (204,000)
- TWICE – “BETWEEN 1 AND 2” (199,000)
- Stray Kids – “MAXIDENT” (177,000)
- ENHYPEN – “MANIFESTO : DAY 1” (173,000)
- Beyoncé – “Renaissance” (163,000)
- NCT 127 – “2 Baddies” (148,000)
BTS and text also made a separate year-end list of the 10 best-selling albums of 2022 in the United States, which includes not only CD sales, but also digital sales and other physical formats, such as vinyl.
Congratulations to all the artists!
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