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Stats: WW Biggest Girl Groups of 2015
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Originally posted by 7/27
Fifth Harmony at #6 and the best-selling Western girl group
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Not when Little Mix has sold literally 400% more albums than Fifth Harmony.
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Originally posted by Save-Me-Oprah
Not when Little Mix has sold literally 400% more albums than Fifth Harmony.
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6. Fifth Harmony
Digital Singles: 3,618,500
Physical + Digital Albums: 155,000
Total: 3,773,500
9. Little Mix
Digital Singles: 2,100,000
Physical + Digital albums: 740,000
Total: 2,840,000
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This despite the fact that 5H's album sales listed here are US only, they should be a lot higher
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Little Mix are so successful and talented.
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Originally posted by 7/27
This despite the fact that 5H's album sales listed here are US only, they should be a lot higher
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Physical + Digital Albums: 155,000
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Physical + Digital albums: 740,000
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Originally posted by Save-Me-Oprah
Physical + Digital Albums: 155,000
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Physical + Digital albums: 740,000
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Digital Singles: 3,618,500
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Digital Singles: 2,100,000
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Originally posted by 7/27
Digital Singles: 3,618,500
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Digital Singles: 2,100,000
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But there are 12 songs on an album
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Goddesses' Generation wins
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these asian girl groups >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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Originally posted by Almighty Gaga
3. SISTAR
Digital Singles: 4,940,064
Physical albums: 19,396
Total: 4,959,460
5. GFriend
Digital Singles: 4,049,086
Physical albums: 28,185
Total: 4,077,271
7. EXID
Digital Singles: 3,465,805
Physical albums: 21,416
Total: 3,487,221
Not 5H being monster album sellers in comparison.
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None of those groups released an album last year, and those numbers only include PHYSICAL albums anyway. Not digital ones, which I'm sure are very high considering they're digital monsters.
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I knew K-Pop and J-Pop were big, but I had no idea they were bigger then Fifth Harmony and Little Mix.
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Originally posted by BlazingLovatic
None of those groups released an album last year, and those numbers only include PHYSICAL albums anyway. Not digital ones, which I'm sure are very high considering they're digital monsters.
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Wait what? I thought you said you're only counting sales of albums + singles released in 2015. How do they have album sales of they didn't release an album?
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Originally posted by Flexus
Wait what? I thought you said you're only counting sales of albums + singles released in 2015. How do they have album sales of they didn't release an album?
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They each had mini-albums, but not full albums.
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Originally posted by 7/27
This despite the fact that 5H's album sales listed here are US only, they should be a lot higher
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The Fifth Harmony total also includes the sales of Camila's solo song. Without that, Little Mix were above them with significantly more records sold. Little Mix are the best selling western girl group.
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Originally posted by MrLovett
The Fifth Harmony total also includes the sales of Camila's solo song. Without that, Little Mix were above them with significantly more records sold. Little Mix are the best selling western girl group.
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IKWDYLS wasn't a massive hit anywhere. The most it's probably contributed to 5H's totals is probably 400k. 5H are still selling better overall.
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Originally posted by MrLovett
The Fifth Harmony total also includes the sales of Camila's solo song. Without that, Little Mix were above them with significantly more records sold.
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This just isn't true though The 2.1M in single sales that's being attributed to Little Mix included UK "sales" that combine both regular sales AND streaming. So if we're counting streaming in these totals, Worth It is 3x Platinum in the US alone, which is already more than LM's single AND albums total combined
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Originally posted by Ethereal
IKWDYLS wasn't a massive hit anywhere. The most it's probably contributed to 5H's totals is probably 400k. 5H are still selling better overall.
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Mess, it sold 1.15 million WW. Not 400k
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Originally posted by shelven
This just isn't true though The 2.1M in single sales that's being attributed to Little Mix included UK "sales" that combine both regular sales AND streaming. So if we're counting streaming in these totals, Worth It is 3x Platinum in the US alone, which is already more than LM's single AND albums total combined
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5H's also 'included UK "sales" that combine both regular sales AND streaming', but the UK only releases pure sales on a case-by-case basis, thus it's the only country that includes the streaming in the figures.
So streaming isn't counted, as long as there are alternative pure sales figures.
US streaming isn't counted, as Billboard don't release their figures with streaming, but as sales.
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Originally posted by Save-Me-Oprah
But there are 12 songs on an album
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the back and forth argument
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Originally posted by BlazingLovatic
Mess, it sold 1.15 million WW. Not 400k
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Originally posted by BlazingLovatic
5H's also 'included UK "sales" that combine both regular sales AND streaming', but the UK only releases pure sales on a case-by-case basis, thus it's the only country that includes the streaming in the figures.
So streaming isn't counted, as long as there are alternative pure sales figures.
US streaming isn't counted, as Billboard don't release their figures with streaming, but as sales.
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Clocked!
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Originally posted by BlazingLovatic
5H's also 'included UK "sales" that combine both regular sales AND streaming', but the UK only releases pure sales on a case-by-case basis, thus it's the only country that includes the streaming in the figures.
So streaming isn't counted, as long as there are alternative pure sales figures.
US streaming isn't counted, as Billboard don't release their figures with streaming, but as sales.
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Seems like these are pretty arbitrary rules, but whatever, I'll play by them. If we're counting total UK figures, then Worth It's total is 2,671,000 EXCLUDING certain countries where I couldn't find an accurate pure sales total in the 5H receipts thread (such as Canada and Italy). Reflection sold 155K in the US alone, so even though it probably didn't sell too much outside the US, it'd at least be enough to bring it close to 200K. So that puts 5H at a bare minimum of 2,871,000, which is higher than LM's 2,840,000 total.
I also won't even get into the ridiculous bias of counting streaming when it's in LM's home market, but not when it's in 5H's Streaming makes up ~50% of UK totals nowadays, so it's very easy to estimate what pure sales totals are in the UK.
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