This list is mostly comprised of TWICE’s recent sales and streaming accomplishments from late 2017 on, mainly because my main news resource (Soompi) they didn’t start extensively summarizing charts like Gaon until around then. Also, Gaon Chart itself revised some of its criteria in 2018, specifically the requirements for platinum certifications.
Gaon Certifications
Starting in 2018, Gaon introduced the following qualifications for something to go platinum in South Korea:
Album Platinum = sell 250,000 copies (Double Platinum = 500,000 copies)
Song Platinum (streams) = 100 million streams
Song Platinum (downloads) = 2.5 million times
| Platinum Albums | Platinum Streams | Download Platinums |
|---|---|---|
| What is Love? Summer Nights Yes or Yes Fancy You Feel Special More & More (double platinum) | Dance the Night Away Yes or Yes What is Love? | Dance the Night Away What is Love? |
Sales and Streaming
2016
- “Cheer Up” was Gaon Chart’s most streamed song of 2016, passing over 100 million streams.
2017
- “Likey” earned TWICE a quadruple crown on Gaon Chart on the week of October 29 – November 4, placing #1 on the digital chart, download chart, and social chart (and with Twicetagram placing #1 on the album chart).
- “Likey” also placed #1 on Gaon’s social chart the weeks of November 5-11 and November 12-18.
- “Heart Shaker” earned TWICE a quadruple crown on Gaon Chart on the week of December 15-23 placing #1 on the digital chart, download chart, and social chart (and with Merry & Happy placing #1 on the album chart).
- “Heart Shaker” also placed #1 on Gaon’s social chart the week of December 24-30.
- “Knock Knock” placed #8 on Gaon’s 2017 year end overall digital chart, #10 on the year end download chart, and #10 on the year end streaming chart. TWICE was the only girl group to appear on Gaon’s 2017 year end charts (the digital ones), as well as one of only two K-pop groups overall (the other one was WINNER).
2018
- “What is Love?” earned TWICE a quadruple crown on Gaon Chart on the week of April 8-14, placing #1 on the digital chart, download chart, and social chart (and with What is Love? placing #1 on the album chart)
- “What is Love?” also placed #1 on Gaon’s social chart the week of April 15-21.
- “Dance the Night Away” had the following results on Gaon Chart:
- #1 on the overall digital chart and the download chart the week of July 8-14
- #1 on the streaming chart and social chart the week of July 15-21
- #1 on the social chart the week of July 22-28
- #1 on the download chart and social chart for July overall
- “Yes or Yes” earned TWICE a quadruple crown on Gaon Chart on the week of November 4-10, placing #1 on the digital chart, download chart, and social chart (and with Yes or Yes placing #1 on the album chart)
- “Yes or Yes” also placed #1 on Gaon’s social chart the week of November 18-24.
- “Yes or Yes” received both a Certified All Kill and a Perfect All Kill several days after its release.
- In 2018, Gaon revealed that TWICE was #4 on its list of groups with the most albums sold since the chart was established in 2010. TWICE was also notably the only girl group on the list.
- “The Best Thing I Ever Did” placed #1 on Gaon’s social chart the week of December 9-15.
- What Is Love? placed #10 on Gaon’s 2018 Album Sales Chart. TWICE was also the highest ranked girl group on the list.
2019
- “Fancy” placed #1 on Gaon’s download and social charts the week of April 21-27.
- Feel Special placed #1 on Gaon’s weekly album sales chart the week of September 22-28.
- Feel Special and Fancy You placed #10 and #11 respectively on Gaon’s 2019 Album Sales Chart. TWICE was also the highest ranked girl group on the list.
2020
- “More & More” had the following results on Gaon Chart:
- More & More placed #1 on Gaon’s weekly album sales chart the week of May 31-June 6.
- More & More sold over 563,000 copies, which broke the record for the greatest amount of albums sold for a girl group on Gaon. (BLACKPINK broke this record in October with their release of The Album.)
- “More & More” placed #1 on Gaon’s monthly digital download chart for June.
- “I Can’t Stop Me” placed #1 on Gaon’s weekly digital download chart the week of October 25-31.
- Melon, one of South Korea’s largest streaming services, released a chart of the top 100 songs from the last decade (from 2010-2019). TWICE had four songs on the chart: “”Cheer Up” at #16, “TT” at #39, “Like OOH-AHH” at #76, and”Dance the Night Away” at #81.
SOURCES: Gaon Chart, iChart, Melon, Soompi (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) (29) (30) (31) (32) (33) (34) (35) (36) (37) (38) (39)
Cover Image is a picture of TWICE at Music Core on October 31, 2020 to promote “I Can’t Stop Me.” It was originally posted on TWICE’s Twitter account here.
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