Okay-pop boybands BTS and Tomorrow X Collectively (TXT) had two of the ten best-selling albums of 2022 in the US.
American music information monitoring agency Luminate – which provides information for the Billboard charts – unveiled its year-end report for 2022 yesterday (January 11) that exposed amongst different statistics the highest 10 best-selling albums within the US final 12 months (counting each bodily and digital gross sales).
Among the many 10 entries, BTS’ June 2022 anthology album ‘Proof’ ranked at Quantity Three with roughly 422,000 copies bought, after Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ (1.8million copies stable) and Harry Types’ ‘Harry’s Home’ (757,000 copies bought). In the meantime, TXT got here in at tenth place with their mini-album ‘minisode 2: Thursday’s Little one’ after promoting roughly 229,000 copies.
Different artists and albums on the listing embody Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Bitter’, Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’, Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Rumours’, Adele’s ’30’, Kendrick Lamar’s ‘good child, m.A.A.d metropolis’ in addition to Michael Jackson‘s ‘Thriller’. BTS and TXT’s albums have been the one information on the rating that haven’t been made obtainable on vinyl.
Luminate’s year-end report additionally unveiled the US’s prime 10 best-selling CD albums of 2022, seven spots of which have been claimed by Okay-pop artists. BTS’ ‘Proof’ got here in second on this listing with 413,000 CDs bought, second solely to Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’, which bought 640,000 copies.
Following BTS in third place is TXT with ‘minisode 2: Thursday’s Little one’ with 227,000 copies. Stray Children are the one act to look twice on the listing: the boyband got here in fifth with their March 2022 album ‘Oddinary’ and once more in seventh with their October 2022 report ‘Maxident’.
Different Okay-pop acts who’ve made appearances on the highest 10 best-selling CDs listing embody TWICE at sixth place with ‘Between 1&2’ in addition to NCT 127’s ‘질주 (2 Baddies)’ in tenth place after having bought 148,000 within the US final 12 months. ENHYPEN’s ‘Manifesto : Day 1’ additionally made its means onto the listing in eighth place after 173,000 copies bought.
Moreover Swift, the opposite two non-Okay-pop artists to make the listing have been Harry Types (‘Harry’s Home’, 219,000 CD albums bought) and Beyoncé (‘Renaissance’, 163,000 CD albums bought).
