The South Korean Grammy-nominated band BTS scores the No. 1 spot on the top-selling physical albums of 2020 in the United States, one of the music industry's biggest markets.

BTS's Map of the Soul: 7 earns big in 2020

The Korea Herald delightedly reported the data released by MRC Data (formerly known as the Nielsen Music) that shows the year-end report for 2020. That said, the band's fourth Korean-language album entitled Map of the Soul: 7 is named the highest-selling physical album in the United States.

MRC Data's list dated January 3 to December 31 as its tracking period, showing the domination of BTS unlike any other.

Aside from Map of the Soul: 7, BTS's latest album entitled BE finishes on No. 5 with 252,000 sales. On the other hand, Map of the Soul: 7 earned 646,000 sales.

Here is the full list of albums with the most physical sales:

1. BTS's Map of the Soul: 7 - 646,000

2. Taylor Swift's Folklore - 482,000

3. Harry Styles's Fine Line - 365,000

4. Billie Eilish's When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? - 281,000

5. BTS's BE - 252,000

6. NCT 127's Neo Zone - 249,000

7. Kenny Chesney's Here and Now - 244,000

8. Queen's Greatest Hits - 233,000

9. Carrie Underwood's My Gift - 221,000

10. The Beatles' Abbey Road - 202,000

BTS is the big winner of digital songs sales of 2020

Aside from earning whopping sales under the physical albums, the K-pop septet also is the No. 1 artist on the digital songs list 2020. Soompi stated that Dynamite has 1.26 million downloads during the tracking period mentioned above, making it the No. 2 best-selling digital song of 2020 in the country.

Check out the full list below:

1. BTS's Dynamite - 1.26 million

2. The Weeknd's Blinding Lights - 580,000

3. Gabby Barrett's I Hope - 351,000

4. Tones and I's Dance Monkey - 339,000

5. Megan Thee Stallion's Savage - 336,000

6. Cardi B featuring Megan Thee Stallion's WAP - 300,000

7. Jawsh 685 x Jason Derulo's Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat) - 299,000

8. Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani's Nobody But You - 288,000

9. Post Malone's Circles - 281,000

10. Maroon 5's Memories - 264,000

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