The bar chart provides information about the number of albums sold by artists in the US in 2020. Meanwhile, the table presents the total streams from various platforms recorded for BTS’s top hits in March of the same year.
Overall, in 2020, BTS achieved the highest album sales in the US, whereas Lil Nas X recorded the lowest among the seven artists analyzed. Additionally, it is also clear that BTS’s top hits were mostly streamed on YouTube and played the least on Apple Music.
In 2020, BTS topped the US album sales chart with an impressive amount of 573,000 albums sold. Following them were Billie Eilish and the Jonas Brothers, both ranking at the 400,000 mark in sales. Ariana Grande managed to sell 297,000 albums, which is almost three times the amount sold by Taylor Swift. Conversely, 21 Savage and Lil Nas X had the lowest sales figures, with 17,000 and 7,000 albums sold, respectively.
The number of streams for BTS’s top hits on various platforms. YouTube, played at 2.36 billion in March 2020. On Spotify, they reached 960 million streams, while QQ and Apple Music had significantly lower figures, each not surpassing 80 million streams.