These Are The Top 15 Best-Selling Female K-Pop Artists Of All Time
The top 15 best-selling male K-Pop artists has been discussed, so now it’s the ladies’ turn! While album sales have been increasing in recent years as the music genre gets more popular, there are plenty of older artists, even those that debuted in the 1990s, that have had an impressive amount of sales! There could certainly be a couple of artists on this list that you might not have heard of before, or at least aren’t familiar with their music. Some of them should definitely be familiar names, though, so it’s nice to see a mixture of the two. Check out these best-selling ladies below!
15. BLACKPINK
Sales: 685.1k
BLACKPINK debuted in 2016, and has 2 total albums released. Their best-selling album is Kill This Love, released in 2019, with 371.6k total sales!
14. Apink
Sales: 694.5k
Apink debuted in 2011, and has 14 total albums released. Their best-selling album is Pink Memory, released in 2015, with 90.1k total sales!
13. Baek Jiyoung
Sales: 732.0k
Baek Jiyoung debuted in 1999, and has 19 total albums released. Her best-selling album is Rouge, released in 2000, with 360.2k total sales!
12. GFRIEND
Sales: 746.0k
GFRIEND debuted in 2015, and has 19 total albums released. Their best-selling album is Time for Us, released in 2019, with 93k total sales!
11. IU
Sales: 839.6k
IU debuted in 2008, and has 20 total albums released. Her best-selling album is Love Poem, released in 2019, with 216.4k total sales!
10. Taeyeon (Girls’ Generation)
Sales: 845.0k
Taeyeon debuted as a solo artist in 2010, and has 9 total albums released. Her best-selling album is The First Mini Album, released in 2015, with 151.2k total sales!
9. Lena Park
Sales: 1.31 million
Lena Park debuted in 1998, and has 18 total albums released. Her best-selling album is A Second Helping, released in 1999, with 300.5k total sales!
8. Red Velvet
Sales: 1.38 million
Red Velvet debuted in 2014, and has 17 total albums released. Their best-selling album is Summer Magic, released in 2018, with 157.3k total sales!
7. Park Jiyoon
Sales: 1.42 million
Park Jiyoon debuted in 1997, and has 11 total albums released. Her best-selling album is Coming-of-Age Ceremony, released in 2000, with 399.1k total sales!
6. IZ*ONE
Sales: 1.57 million
IZ*ONE debuted in 2018, and has 8 total albums released. Their best-selling album is Oneiric Diary, released in 2020, with 511.4k total sales!
5. Yangpa
Sales: 2.05 million
Yangpa debuted in 1996, and has 9 total albums released. Her best-selling album is Novice’s Love, released in 1996, with 820k total sales!
4. BoA
Sales: 2.21 million
BoA debuted in 2000, and has 35 total albums released. Her best-selling album is No. 1, released in 2002, with 560k total sales!
3. Girls’ Generation
Sales: 2.92 million
Girls’ Generation debuted in 2007, and has 26 total albums released. Their best-selling album is The Boys, released in 2011, with 461k total sales!
2. S.E.S.
Sales: 3.56 million
S.E.S. debuted in 1997, and has 14 total albums released. Their best-selling album is See & Eugene & Shoo, released in 1998, with 651.3k total sales!
1. TWICE
Sales: 5.17 million
TWICE debuted in 2015, and has 14 total albums released. Their best-selling album is MORE & MORE, released in 2020, with 563.6 total sales!