Hanteo Chart has released its Global K-Pop Report for the first half of 2021!

According to the new report, which was compiled using big data collected from January 1 to June 20, K-pop album sales are on the rise so far in 2021. By Hanteo Chart calculations, sales of physical K-pop albums rose by 34.25 percent in the first half of 2021 compared to the same time frame last year (2020).

Hanteo Chart released its mid-year rankings of the top 50 artists who contributed most to the K-pop industry in the first half of 2021.

Artists were ranked based on the six following criteria: albums (album sales data, first-week sales data, realtime sales data from around the world, etc.), digital music (chart performance data, channel performance data, etc.), media/broadcast (music video data, radio/TV broadcast data), social media (social media channel data, activity, mentions, etc.), portal sites (search data, references, mentions, etc.), and global fandom (end-user authentication data, Whosfan activity data, etc.).

Hanteo Chart’s mid-year rankings are as follows:

  1. NCT DREAM
  2. EXO’s Baekhyun
  3. EXO
  4. NCT
  5. SHINee
  6. Super Junior
  7. NCT 127
  8. TVXQ’s Yunho
  9. Red Velvet’s Joy
  10. Red Velvet’s Wendy
  11. Girls’ Generation’s Taeyeon
  12. SHINee’s Taemin
  13. aespa
  14. Super Junior’s Yesung

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