In the K-Pop world, girl groups are trending and they have been trending for a while--but which girl groups can we really say are the reigning queens of 2014?�





Gaon Chart has decided to find the answer by seeing which girl groups have come out on top in terms of sales. To assess the data, Gaon Chart has organized three different charts: the first compares girl groups' digital song sales, the second compares album sales, and the third compares overall sales.�









Digital Song Sales

According to Gaon's data, 2NE1 takes first place in terms of accumulating the most digital song sales. In fact, 2NE1 is noticeably on a level of their own, as their sales are significantly higher than that of anyone else. 2NE1's success is mainly due to their comeback single "Come Back Home," which stayed at first place on the charts for two consecutive weeks and was also number one on the Gaon monthly chart for March 2014.�





Second place belongs to SISTAR. However, SISTAR earned their enormous amount of sales not necessarily via their group-released songs, but via their more popular collaborations, in particular�Soyu's collaboration with JungGiGo, "Some." Gaon stated that for every 100 sales Soyu made with her collaborations, SISTAR as a team would make 86 sales with their songs.�





A Pink takes third place due to the success of their two songs "Mr. Chu" and "LUV." The rest of the rankings goes as follows:





1. 2NE1

2. SISTAR

3. A Pink

4. Girl's Day

5. AOA

6. Girls' Generation (including TaeTiSeo)

7. f(x)

8. Ladies' Code

9. SECRET

10. MAMAMOO

11. 4minute

12. EXID

13. Crayon Pop

14. Red Velvet

15. KARA

16. Rainbow

17. T-ara

18. Dal Shabet

19. miss A

20. BESTie

21. Lovelyz

22. Brown Eyed Girls

23. After School (including Orange Caramel)

24. Hello Venus





Album Sales





In terms of album sales, Girls' Generation takes first place. Although their digital sales were not as strong as that of 2NE1, SISTAR, or A Pink, Girls' Generation sold a combined number of around 289,000 'Mr. Mr.'�and 'Holler'�albums. This is an impressive figure in the K-Pop industry that, as shown in the above chart, leaves other girl groups in the dust.�





A Pink makes an appearance in the top three again, this time in second place, selling around 155,000 copies of their 'Pink Blossom' and 'Pink LUV' albums. f(x) comes in at third place selling 107,000 copies of their album 'Red Light'.�





The rest of the album sales rankings goes as follows:�





1. Girls' Generation

2. A Pink

3. f(x)

4. 2NE1

5. Girl's Day

6. AOA

7. T-ara

8. KARA

9. SISTAR

10. Crayon Pop

11. 4minute

12. SECRET

13. Lovelyz

14. Hello Venus

15. Rainbow

16. Dal Shabet

17. Ladies' Code

18. BESTie

19. MAMAMOO

20. Brown Eyed Girls

21. miss A





Overall Sales





The above chart was calculated using a 50:50 ratio of digital songs to album sales. According to Gaon's calculation, Girls' Generation wins in terms of overall sales while 2NE1 is not too far behind with second place. Third place belongs to A Pink, showing the girl group's power to stay in the top three�in all three charts.�





The rest of the overall sales rankings go as follows:





1. Girls' Generation

2. 2NE1

3. A Pink

4. Girl's Day

5. SISTAR

6. AOA

7. f(x)

8. SECRET

9. Ladies' Code

10. 4minute

11. MAMAMOO

12. T-ara

13. KARA

14. Crayon Pop

15. EXID

16. Red Velvet

17. Rainbow

18. Dal Shabet

19. Lovelyz

20. BESTie

21. miss A

22. Hello Venus

23. Brown Eyed Girls

24. After School

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in.]