BTS Sales and Streaming Achievements: 2018

This is not a complete list – it is as comprehensive as possible, but not complete. Outside of platinum certifications and all-kills, this page mostly covers when BTS ranked #1 on any of Gaon’s weekly or monthly charts, and if they ranked on any year end charts. BTS is frequently on Gaon Chart, but I decided to limit this page to their #1s because otherwise it would be way too long. I also haven’t listed every single number one ranking for the Social Chart because there are a lot of them. Finally, BTS is continually breaking their own records – so I might not always list certain record setting moments if they went on to break them later on.

This list is mostly comprised of BTS’s recent sales and streaming accomplishments in South Korea. There is a separate page for all of their Billboard chart achievements.

“Fake Love” / Love Yourself: Tear

  • BTS earned their first ever Certified All Kill with “Fake Love” about a day after its release.
  • BTS also earned their first ever Perfect All Kill with “Fake Love” several days after its release.
  • With the release of Love Yourself: Tear, BTS was the first artist to receive a Million Certification from Gaon under their new certifications system.
  • BTS had the following results on Gaon Chart during this comeback:
    • May 13 – 19: Triple Crown / #1 album sales, #1 digital downloads, #1 social
    • May 20 – 26: Quintuple Crown / #1 album sales, #1 overall digital, #1 streaming, #1 digital download, #1 social
    • May Monthly Chart: Triple Crown / #1 album sales, #1 digital downloads, #1 social
      • It mentions in the same article that BTS recorded the highest amount of monthly sales in Gaon history, although they’ve since surpassed this several times (like below, for example).

“IDOL” / Love Yourself: Answer

  • BTS had the following results on Gaon Chart during this comeback:
    • August 19 – 25***: Double Crown /#1 album sales. #1 digital download,
  • With the release of Love Yourself: Answer, BTS became the first artist to receive a Double Million certification from Gaon.
    • It mentions in the same article that BTS recorded the highest amount of monthly sales in Gaon history, although they’ve since surpassed this several times.

***For some reason, Soompi did not do an article of that week’s Gaon Chart results. (At least, not one I could easily find.) The information is correct – I double checked it on Gaon’s website myself – but there’s just no convenient summary to look at like the others.

Other Items of Note:

  • In 2018, Gaon Chart released a list of the artist with the highest numbers of albums sales since the chart was created in 2010. At the time, BTS ranked at #2. They have since passed EXO to become #1.
  • In 2018, BTS passed 10 million in total albums sales, becoming the fastest Korean artist who debuted after 2000 to do so.
  • Love Yourself: Answer placed #1 on Gaon’s 2018 year end album sales chart, while Love Yourself: Tear followed right behind at #2.

SOURCES: Gaon Chart, iChart, Soompi (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12)

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