Here Are The 10 Top-Selling K-Pop Artists On Oricon For The First Half Of 2021

Japanese K-Pop fans love these artists!

Oricon, similar to Gaon and Hanteo in South Korea, is a Japanese music company that provides statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. The sales charts for albums and other electronic media that the company creates are determined by data collected from around 39,700 retail outlets, and are updated weekly.

With K-Pop becoming increasingly popular outside of South Korea, and especially with more Japanese singles and Japanese versions of K-Pop songs being created, the music genre has done well in the country in terms of album sales this year! Here are the 10 best-selling K-Pop artists in Japan for the first half of 2021, based on Oricon’s data.

10. Stray Kids

Total album sales for the first half of 2021: 88,563 copies

Top 5 best-selling albums:

  1. TOP (Japanese Version): 23.8k sales
  2. Go Live: 19.9k sales
  3. All In: 10.6k sales
  4. SKZ2020: 9.5k sales
  5. I am NOT: 5.6k sales

9. ASTRO

Total album sales for the first half of 2021: 90,764 copies

Top 5 best-selling albums:

  1. All Yours: 56.3k sales
  2. Gateway: 11.5k sales
  3. Blue Flame: 4.6k sales
  4. All Light: 3.7k sales
  5. Winter Dream: 3.0k sales

8. NCT Dream

Total album sales for the first half of 2021: 91,625 copies

Top 5 best-selling albums:

  1. Hot Sauce: 74.5k sales
  2. The Dream: 8.4k sales
  3. Reload: 4.9k sales
  4. We Boom: 2.4k sales
  5. We Go Up: 1.1k sales

7. TREASURE

Total album sales for the first half of 2021: 97,630 copies

Top 2 best-selling albums:

  1. The First Step: Treasure Effect (Japanese Version): 67.5k sales
  2. The First Step: Treasure Effect: 30.1k sales

6. ENHYPEN

Total album sales for the first half of 2021: 140,994 copies

Top 2 best-selling albums:

  1. Border: Carnival: 112.4k sales
  2. Border: Day One: 28.6k sales

5. NCT 127

Total album sales for the first half of 2021: 175,003 copies

Top 5 best-selling albums:

  1. Loveholic: 156.5k sales
  2. Neo Zone: 9.0k sales
  3. Awaken: 5.1k sales
  4. Regular-Irregular: 3.0k sales
  5. Limitless: 662 sales

4. TWICE

Total album sales for the first half of 2021: 196,909 copies

Top 5 best-selling albums:

  1. Kura Kura: 94.7k sales
  2. Taste of Love: 37.1k sales
  3. Eyes Wide Open: 17.7k sales
  4. Better: 14.3k sales
  5. #TWICE3: 9.2k sales

3. TXT

Total album sales for the first half of 2021: 246,064 copies

Top 5 best-selling albums:

  1. Still Dreaming: 108.2k sales
  2. The Chaos Chapter: Freeze: 89.4k sales
  3. Minisode1: Blue Hour: 16.6k sales
  4. The Dream Chapter: Magic: 10.8k sales
  5. The Dream Chapter: Eternity: 9.9k sales

2. SEVENTEEN

Total album sales for the first half of 2021: 706,458 copies

Top 5 best-selling albums:

  1. Not Alone: 422.4k sales
  2. Your Choice: 192.5k sales
  3. 24H: 27.2k sales
  4. ; [Semicolon]: 26.8k sales
  5. Heng:garae: 12.5k sales

1. BTS

Total album sales for the first half of 2021: 1,398,167 copies

Top 5 best-selling albums:

  1. BTS, The Best: 858.2k sales
  2. BE: 226.8k sales
  3. Map of the Soul: 7 ~The Journey~: 45.1k sales
  4. Map of the Soul: 7: 39.6k sales
  5. Love Yourself: Answer: 39.3k sales
Source: Korean Sales and Image (1) and (2)