- Stray Kids – 5,259 million yen
- Seventeen – 3,827 million yen
- INI – 3,655 million yen (kpop?)
- Twice – 3,291 million yen
- &Team – 3,267 million yen (kpop, right?)
- JO1 – 3,215 million yen (again, kpop?)
- TXT – 3,047 million yen
- ENHYPEN – 2,406 million yen
- NIZU – 2,167 million yen (if anyone considers them kpop)
- ZB1 – 2,150 million yen
- TREASURE – 2,012 million yen
- BND – 1,933 million yen
- LSF – 1,894 million yen
- IVE – 1,730 million yen
- AESPA – 1,528 million yen
- ILLIT – 1,062 million yen
- BABYMONSTER – 849 million yen
- NJ – 781 million yen
*1,000 million yen is almost equal to 6.3 million USD, so 5,000 million yen is around 32 million USD.
Before anyone asks for context – if someone is free to check, do so (versions, number of releases etc).
My own personal observations: – I think this is does not include digital sales, tour etc – just physical album revenue as last year list of total revenue (sales and digital) is in billions of yen – still cannot believe SKZ can do so well in Japan, they used to trail way behind among 4th gen groups (male or female) – lots more girl groups in the list (almost equal male to female ratio this time) so Japan supports girl groups well – more 5th gen groups in the list too – the list has lots of similarities (in terms of groups, not ranking per se) with Circle album chart list 2025 excepting a few – no kpop top 5 this year – Japan is definitely Twice homeground – again, similar to my previous comment, BTS/BP are releasing albums this year so the list will definitely change for 2026 – lots of kpop groups in this list and the revenue is quite astounding, thus it is a given why Japan is still one of kpop main target markets
The list for Billboard US, IFPI and Chinese data will definitely differ a lot.
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