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Originally posted by KORDEI
Kings!
Remember Bey did what she did in 3 days. They're sorta equivalents bc EXO did like 450k+ in 3 days and so did Lemonade in the US
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Originally posted by T-Swizz
653,000 within her debut week
It's a bit unfair to compare the two though, while the Korean music market is clearly significantly smaller than America's. Korea's albums tend to be extremely front-loaded, especially with BGs.
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Originally posted by Kamren
This. Also, EXO's numbers include preorders as well as several different versions of the albums as well as two language albums.
Pretty much Exo is selling 2 different language albums, so even though they sold 500k, it doesn't count as one.
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I guess it is a bit of a peculiar comparison, considering Beyoncé's lack of pre-orders and differing days of sale, but I guess that's more than evened out by the South Korean music market being less than 10% the size of the US music industry.
The different languages count together, just like they would in the US on Billboard, as would two different album covers.