SM artists who earned the most annually (1996~2018)

1996 - HOT (Birth of a legendary idol group)
1997 - HOT
1998 - HOT
1999 - HOT
2000 - HOT
2001 - SES (HOT disbands, Shinhwa is #1 on Taiwanese chart and hits daebak on variety shows)
2002 - BoA (#1 on Oricon chart)
2003 - BoA
2004 - BoA
2005 - BoA
2006 - BoA
2007 - BoA
2008 - BoA & TVXQ (BoA's American debut, TVXQ gets popular in Japan)
2009 - Super Junior (Because of JYJ, Super Junior was the cashcow of the year)
2010 - Girls' Generation (Gained a big fandom from last year's hit songs, Japanese debut)
2011 - TVXQ (Yunho & Changmin start Dome tours in Japan)
2012 - TVXQ
2013 - TVXQ
2014 - TVXQ
2015 - EXO (TVXQ enlists and EXO becomes the new cashcow)
2016 - EXO
2017 - EXO
2018 - TVXQ? (TVXQ is discharged and continuing their Dome tours as yen fairies)

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Instiz: SM artists who earned the most annually

- As expected of God BoA ㅠㅠ

- Yen fairies ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

- BoA and TVXQ though ㅠㅠ They're only solo and two members but it's cool how they dominate up the stage completely

- EXO established the Chungdam-dong building ㅋㅋ It's not like EXO earned the most because other artists enlisted...