“Kpop” isn’t #1, a few hardcore, very mouthy fans have made it seem like it is even though Kpop basically sucks.
So where’s this “Explosion”? Seems more like a small bottle rocket going off during a massive fireworks display of North American pop and hip-hop. Girl’s Generation, EXO, BTOB, Blackpink, or Twice. The other BTS album in this chart is being beaten by a classic rock album that came out nearly 40 years ago, and in a week when none of their members even died. Two spots up at #137 by the way? AC/DC’s Back in Black.
Taylor Swift’s 1989 at #114 (her 2014 release)Īs I made it to #139 I found another Kpop album: BTS’s Love Yourself: Her. Zac Brown Band’s Greatest Hits So Far… at #77 (that must be an EP, right?). The Moana soundtrack at #72 (didn’t that movie come out in 2016?). Oh, and by the way, if you have a look at both the Hot 100 and Top 200? You might notice a significant lack of Kpop. Maybe if their fans spent more time actually streaming the albums and less time “stanning” their favorite boys on Twitter, that number would be higher. I think this tells you all you need to know about how truly popular K-Pop is in the US. So, we can only guess that the number of units needed to reach #20 is probably quite a bit lower than 31,000.Īgain, Ed Sheeran’s year-and-three-month-old album managed to bring in more equivalent albums than a brand new BTS album. That’s not a typo, just 31,000 measly units. #10 was Shawn Mendes’ most recent album, notching 31,000 units. This week, we returned to the year 1996 with Dave Matthews Band (YES, Dave Matthews Band) taking the #1 album with just under 300,000 “equivalent albums” moved (this includes streams, they have an algorithm for how many streams equal an album “sale”). 
We don’t have all the data for the entire chart, but we do have what Billboard’s willing to share, which is the top 10. Consider how well (or really how poorly) something has to perform to make the top 10 on the Billboard Top 200 in this day and age, when album sales are in the toilet and streaming is supreme. For something considered “popular”, these are pretty weak numbers.
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