Albums are often used as an indicator of a company’s success, in addition to other factors like concert ticket sales and music program wins. This year has been an impressive year for K-Pop as different groups and solo artists continue to improve their performances. Check out the companies that sold the most copies of albums in 2019 (as of May) according to the Gaon Music Charts!

1. Big Hit Entertainment 4,332,820 copies 

• BTS 4,148,638 copies 
• TXT 184,182 copies 

2. JYP Entertainment 1,060,951 copies 

• TWICE 486,017 copies 
• GOT7 258,122 copies 
• Stray Kids 200,013 copies 
• JUS2 89,107 copies
• Junho 16,596 copies
• Nichkhun 4,352 copies
• DAY6 3,744 copies
• Baek Yerin 3,000 copies

3. SM Entertainment 842,118 copies 

• NCT 127 253,052 copies
  
• Chen 213,016 copies 
• Taemin 121,857 copies
• Super Junior D & E (DongHae & Eunhyuk) 90,574 copies 
• Key 33,068 copies
• Ryeowook 25,785 copies
• NCT 24,098 copies
• NCT Dream 22,712 copies 
• EXO 18,990 copies
• TVXQ 18,660 copies
• Red Velvet 10,393 copies
• Lay, NCT127, Jason Derulo 3,952 copies
• Onew 2,478 copies
• EXO-K 2,203 copies
• Jonghyun 1,280 copies

4. Pledis Entertainment 786,380 copies

• Seventeen 519,594 copies
• NU’EST 266,786 copies

5. YG Entertainment 506,856 copies 

• BLACKPINK 295,949 copies 
• WINNER 126,876 copies
• iKON 66,293 copies
• Bobby 13,085 copies
• Jennie 3,296 copies
• Song Mino 1,357 copies

6. Starship Entertainment 340,285 copies

• MONSTA X 256,411 copies 
• Cosmic Girls (WJSN) 63,486 copies
• Jeong Sewoon 20,388 copies 

7. Off The Record Entertainment 302,478 copies 

• IZ*ONE 302,478 copies 

8. Cube Entertainment 207,893 copies 

• BTOB 43,707 copies 
• Pentagon 39,875 copies 
• Lee Minhyuk 37,714 copies
• Wooseok x Kuanlin 36,414 copies
• (G)I-DLE 35,221 copies
• CLC 12,302 copies
• Lee Chang Sub 2,660 copies

9. Fantagio 121,173 copies

• Astro 121,173 copies

10. Maroo Entertainment 108,807 copies 

• Park Ji Hoon 108,807 copies