The data displays the number of albums sold in the USA in 2020 and the total amount of streaming activity of BTS bestsellers in March 2020.
Overall, it is evident that BTS had the biggest number of album sales in given year. While Billie Eilish and Jonas Brothers were approximately equal, others, particularly Lil Nax X , were on the bottom of the US market. BTS activity was the biggest in YouTube, whereas other platforms, such as Apple Music and QQ, were not relatively popular.
Firstly, BTS had 573000 album sales, which is almost twice bigger than the amount of sales Ariana Grande’s albums with its number of 297000. Billie Eilish and Jonas Brothers was on the same sale level with 465000 and 407000, respectively. The worst sales showed Lil Nax X and 21 Savage, with their 7000 and 17000 albums, respectively. Additionaly, Taylor Swift’s album sales were 107000, which almost 3 times fewer than Ariana Grande’s ones.
Secondly, the amount of stream activity of BTS hits got their peak on Youtube, with 2.36 billions streams. Whereas QQ and Apple music went trough lowest streams, 0.06 and 0.08 billions, respectively. Spotify’s total activity was approximately twice lower than Youtube’s ones, with 0.96 billions streams.