The horizontal bar graph above, coupled with a data table, depicts various musicians’ album sales in the United States in 2020 along with BTS’s streams regarding most sensational tracks during March of the same year.
Overall, it is prevalent that the K-Pop boy band was the highest-grossing musical group, surpassing and overtaking numerous prominent artists such as Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift, etc. In addition, their top hits accumulated over 3 billion listens, with YouTube accounting for more than 60% of said streams.
In closer examination, male groups such as Jonas Brothers and BTS are by far the most well-known among physical CD customers, with each band reaching numbers such as 297000 and 573000 copies soldm respectively. However, avid analog buyers across the globe still demonstrated their support for the solo artists, with Billie Eilish, the most popular, selling 465000 albums, followed by Ariana Grande and Taylor Swift, who managed to peak at 297000 and 107000 copies. The remaining musicians within the “Rap” genre experienced significantly lower revenue, with 21 Savage and Lil Nas X combined selling only 24000 albums, approximately a quarter of Taylor Swift’s figures.
When streaming is regarded, BTS’s tracks were the most magnetic towards YouTube users, accumulating 2.36 billion views by the end of March 2020. Subsequently, Spotify holds the number 2 spot with 0.96 billion streams, while Apple Music and QQ provided more modest numbers, with 0.06 billion and 0.08 billion, respectively.