Korean Superstar Band #BIGBANG have the World's 3rd best-selling Album this week!https://t.co/Av1SXmbzZu pic.twitter.com/Z6Hk3tNBt0
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Korean Superstar Band #BIGBANG have the World’s 3rd best-selling Album this week!
BIGBANG’s ‘MADE’ is the World’s 3rd best-selling Album this week. This album marks BIGBANG’s comeback after a 3-year hiatus and has sold an incredible 128,000 copies globally last week. They are just behind Adele’s ’25’ which shifted another 205.000 copies in its 10th non consecutive week at No.1. Coldplay is at No.2 in the Global chart, with their smash Album ‘A Head Full Of Dreams’, which sold 152.000 copies last week, boosted by their performance on the Super Bowl.
‘MADE’ is the third Korean studio album and the fifth Japanese studio album by BIGBANG. It was released on February 3, 2016 in Japan under the title name ‘Made Series’, including 8 original singles previously released and Japanese versions of songs “Loser”, “Bang Bang Bang” and “If You”. Before the official album release this project was divided into four parts, each including two singles, released under each letter of the word MADE, namely M, A, D, E. The four parts were each released on the first day of every month starting from May to September 2015, although the final part named E was released on August 5, 2015. The last project of this album was to release the full album, called MADE. However, due to BIGBANG’s world tour and busy schedule, the release date of the full album got delayed.
As of February 21, 2016, BIGBANG’s MADE album music videos have a total of over 480 million views. On YouTube, BIGBANG’s recent music videos (starting May) have a total of over 420 million views. Chinese video sharing websites such as Youku and QQ Music have a total of over 70 million views. All eight songs of MADE were selected as the biggest K-Pop songs on World Digital Songs by billboard, “Bang Bang Bang”, “If You” and “Sober” took the first three places consecutively, “We Like 2 Party” 5th, “Let’s Not Fall in Love” 8th, “Zutter” 9th, “Loser” 10th and “Bae Bae” 11th. The most viewed K-Pop Music Videos were “Bang Bang Bang”, while “Sober”, “We Like 2 Party”, “Let’s Not Fall in Love” and “Zutter” took the 6th, 7th, 8th and 10th consecutively. Also in Taiwan, all of the eight singles were selected in top 20 on the best Korean singles in 2015.
M, A, and D have all received commercial success; M sold over 130,000 copies in just two days and peaked at #3 on the Gaon April chart, with eventual sales exceeding 134,000 in South Korea and 400,000 in China. In two months, the singles sold 988,321 (Loser) and 828,966 (Bae Bae), including combined sales of 17,000 in the United States. In total, M has sold over 2.4 million copies worldwide. Furthermore, A sold 93,504 copies in June, and over 600,000 copies in China. The singles sold 720,691 (Bang Bang Bang) and 543,676 (We Like 2 Party). and sold in US 18,000 copies. In total, A has sold over 2 million copies worldwide. The third single D sold over 800,000 copies in China in two weeks alone, and “If You” sold 308,120. “Sober” sold 276,180 in South Korea. D has totaled over 1.4 million in sales to date. Across all of the first three singles, 5.8 million copies have been sold worldwide.
In 2015, the four singles with the V.I.P package have sold over 3.9 million digital copies in China with over 425,104 physical copies in the South Korea Gaon Chart and 9.3 million singles elsewhere, totaling 13.7 million sales and over 10 million records worldwide in just four months.
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