China Year End Music Awards announced the winners on December 19. The winners are based on their digital single-album sales.
BLACKPINK continues to prove their worldwide popularity! They are the singers with the most nominations and wins at China Year-End Music Awards.
BLACKPINK's single 'Pink Venom' sold 1,474,807 copies, and the album 'Born Pink' sold 865,759 copies. 'Born Pink' has also become the best-selling international album of the year, surpassing worldwide popular names such as Taylor Swift! Out of their 14 nominations, BLACKPINK earned an impressive 8 awards, making them the most-winning artist of the year!
Below are the nominations, wins and sales of BLACKPINK!
Born Pink (album): 865,759
Born Pink (single) : 1,474,807
(8/14)
Best Selling Female Single
Best Selling International Album
Best Selling Female International Single
Best Selling K-Pop Album
Best Selling Female K-Pop Single
Best Selling Female Album
Best Selling Group Album
Best Selling Female Group Single
Best Selling Single
Best Selling International Single
Best Selling Group (Total Album sales)
Best Selling Group (Total Single sales)
Best Selling Artist Artist (Total Album sales)
Best Selling Artist (Total Single sale)
Legendary group Bigbang who released 1 song with no promotion after 4 years, proved their undying impact! The group's song 'Still Life' sold 1,909,981 copies and has become the best-selling single, surpassing even top Chinese artists such as JJ Lin, EXO's Lay, and the former member Luhan. Those sales earned them a total of 6 nominations, and they won in all categories!
Below are the nominations, sales, and wins of Bigbang:
Still Life (single): 1,909,981
(6/6)
Best Selling Artist (Single)
Best Selling Single
Best Selling International (Single)
Best Selling K-Pop (Single)
Best Selling Group (Single)
Best Selling Group (Single)
(G)I-DLE, NCT Dream, Seventeen & Anne-Marie won 2 awards, and Girls' Generation's Taeyeon, EXO's Suho, and BTS's J-Hope won 1 award.
Below are the winners and their sales!
(G)I-DLE
I Never Die (album) - 568,621
I Love (album) - 528,651
(total album sales: 1,097,272
(2/12)
Best Selling Group (total albums)
Best Selling Female Artist (total albums)
NCT Dream
Glitch Mode (album) - 100,355
Beatbox RPG. (album) - 94,645
Candy (album) - 88,345
(2/4)
Best Selling Male Group Album (Glitch Mode)
Best Selling Male KPOP Album (Glitch Mode)
SEVENTEEN
Darl+ing (single)-139,374
Face the Sun (album)-86,957
Sector 17 RPG. (album)-63,794
_World (x Anne-Marie) - 42,466
(2/13)
Best Selling KPOP Collab. Single
Best Selling Western Single (Anne Marie)
Girls' Generation Taeyeon
INVU(album) - 114,457
(1/3)
Best Selling Solo KPOP album
EXO's Suho
Grey Suit (album) - 55,768
(1/3)
Best Selling Male KPOP Album
BTS's J-Hope
More (single) - 31,426
Jack in the Box (album) - 19,614
(1/3)
Best Selling Solo Kpop single
Congratulations to the winners!
Congratulations BIGBANG and BLACKPINK ! China is a market that all kpop groups/idols are dreaming to conquer but it's not that easy. Due to the new rules, mass buying&voting are not possible in China so BIGBANG's over 1.9 million copies sold is very impressive