BTS's Chinese fanbase has always been known for its big payouts for comebacks. They are among the biggest fan groups that spend the most money on BTS albums according to statistics of all K-pop fandom.
Recently, ARMYs were even more surprised when they found out how much money V's CHINA Baidu Vbar spent to buy a new album. That's a number that few fan clubs of Kpop idols dare to pay!
According to the publicly available data of CHINA Baidu Vbar on June 12th, they together bought a total of 160.913 copies on the first day of releasing the new album 'Proof' on June 10th. The amount is estimated at 4,496.81 million KRW.
This is the first record for the group's purchase in the ARMY fandom and also the biggest purchase by a CHINA Baidu for a K-pop idol. But especially from this amount, it can be seen how Vbar's purchase accounts for an important part of BTS's total album sales.
Specifically, according to Hanteo Chart, BTS recorded a total of 2,155,363 copies sold on the first day of 'Proof' on the 1006th, recording the first record on the chart as a double million-seller. copy. Among them, the purchase volume of 'Baidu Vbar' accounted for 40%.
In the past, Vbar has repeatedly marked Kpop's individual fandom history when they spent large amounts of money to buy albums to support idols. During MOST 7, CHINA Vbar set a record for the group having bought 230,000 copies of the album.
Vbar at that time set a record for the number one group purchase in the history of individual K-pop fandoms. The 5.2 billion KRW joint purchase is the highest amount in K-pop history.
In birthday fundraising, which is a measure of the size of the fandom, CHINA Baidu VBar has also topped K-Pop for two consecutive years.
Last year, V's birthday fundraising event set a new K-pop birthday fundraising record when it collected 500 million won in one minute. At the same time, they also broke records for both 1.17 billion won in 24 hours and the number of participants.
The huge fan base of 'Baidu Vbar' shows how popular V is in China. V is also one of the idols with the highest number of searches on China's largest Baidu website for 5 years.
