The bar graph provided illustrates the number of albums that artists were able to sell in the US in the year 2020. Meanwhile, the table presents information regarding the number of streams on various platform for the most popular records for BTS in March of the same year.
Overall, BTS, which gained most of its streams on YouTube, had the greatest number of album sales in the country.
In detail, with a total sale of 573000, BTS was on top of the US chart, where Billie Eilish and Jonas Brothers followed that of the former to have a sale of 465000 and 407000 albums respectively. While Taylor Swift achieved an album sale of 107000, her record was only one-third of that of Ariana Grande, who had a sale of 297000 albums. A significant contrast which is worth to note is that Lil Nax X and 21 Savage remained the lowest documented figures, having a sale of 7000 and 17000 albums respectively.
Regarding the stream numbers for the top hits for BTS on multiple platforms, being observed to have 2.36 billion streams, YouTube was the most popular streaming platform of the time for records of BTS. On the other hand, having a significantly lower numbers, QQ and apple music had the lowest number of streams of 0.08 billion and 0.06 billion respectively. Among the previous platforms, Spotify was regarded to have a moderate performance, contributing 0.96 billion streams to the total record.
