the given bar chart and table compare the album sales of seven reputable artists in the United States in 2020 and the total streams (in billions) of BTS hits in four particular platforms in March 2020
Overall, BTS’s album was the most preferable for the American customers, overtaking mang reputable singers like Billie Ellish and Taylor Swift while Lil Nax X had the lowest sales. It can also be seen that Youtube made up the highest number of streams of K-pop music band’s top hits, while QQ platform was the least favoured.
Regarding the album sales in the US in 2020, BTS had the highest figure at 573000, followed by Billie Ellish and Jonas Brothers at 465000 and 407000 in turn. The album sales of Ariana Grande was 297000, nearly doubled the statistic of Taylor Swift at 107000. 21 Savage and Lil Nax X sold the fewst albums across seven musicans, selling just 17000 and 7000 albums, respectively.
In terms of total streams of BTS top hits in March 2020, Youtube was by far the most used plaforms by audiences with 2.36 billion streams. Although Spotify ranked second, its figure was much lower than that of Youtube, at 0.96 billion. QQ was a bit lower than Sportify at 0.8 billion, while Apple Music was the least used platform to hear BTS hits, at only 0.06 streams