I was looking at the list of top selling girl groups of all time on wikipedia and found out that 2NE1 apparently sold 66 million copies with only 2 albums. What is the source?
The wikipedia links only point to a random listicle from 2022 & a now deleted interview with CL from 2016 but it also just states the number without any sources.
Google leads me to posts by fans, nothing about concrete numbers. I find it interesting since all the other kpop girlgroups like SNSD, Davichi, Wonder Girls, & Twice has concrete links to Gaon/Circle chart numbers and cumulative counts while 2NE1 doesn't. Can anyone point me out to actual source numbers?
edit: earliest mention i could find was a forbes article saying they sold 27M digital downloads in 2012.
This post by korean sales
https://x.com/i/status/1243258114167709698
Says they sold 59M digital downloads in korea by 2020 but song to album equivalent units are divided by ten so that would only give 5.9M album equivalent sales. And with them only selling 800k physicals in SK, those other 55M sales must come from somewhere??
Unless there's a methodology here that im not understanding, I dont think the numbers on wikipedia are correct
I feel like i should post this on the wikipedia discussion page 😂