SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The K-pop industry has achieved an unprecedented milestone this year as annual domestic sales of physical albums reached the 100 million mark. Circle Chart, a leading tracker of local albums sales, reported Tuesday that the top 400 physical albums collectively sold 116 million copies in the first 11 months [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean boy band Stray Kids ranked second in the United States for album sales so far this year, according to their agency, JYP Entertainment, on Monday. The agency said Stray Kids came in second place after Taylor Swift on “chart data,” an account on X, formerly known as [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group aespa’s third EP “My World” has sold over 2 million copies, breaking its own previous album sales record, its agency said Monday. The album released on May 8 had sold 2.01 million copies as of Sunday, SM Entertainment said. “My World” received 1.8 million preorders ahead [...]
SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Superstar Suga of boy group BTS has recorded the biggest first-day sales as a K-pop soloist with his official debut solo album, “D-Day,” according to sources in the music industry Saturday. The sources said the album sold over 1,070,000 copies in the first day following its release under Suga’s [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — BLACKPINK member Jisoo’s debut solo album “ME” has set a new record for the largest number of first week sales by a K-pop female soloist, her agency said Friday. “ME” has sold 1.17 million copies in the first week since its release last Friday, YG Entertainment said, citing data [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Jisoo, a member of K-pop girl group BLACKPINK, became the first K-pop female solo artist with an album that was sold more than 1 million copies in its first week of sales, her agency said Tuesday. YG Entertainment said in a release that her first solo single album “Me,” [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Jimin, a member of the globally popular boy group BTS, has broken the record for the highest first-week album sales by a K-pop soloist with his debut solo album titled “Face,” the band’s agency said Friday. The album has sold over 1.45 million copies in the week following its [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group TWICE has broken its own album preorder records with upcoming EP “Ready to Be,” the group’s management agency said Wednesday. “Ready to Be,” the band’s 12th EP set to drop Friday, surpassed 1.7 million copies in preorders as of Tuesday, heralding another million seller from the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The debut single from PSS, a unit of the K-pop boy group Seventeen, sold 470,000 copies on the day of its release, the group’s agency said Tuesday. The three-track single titled “Second Wind” set the record for the biggest first-week sales by a unit of a K-pop group by [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy group Tomorrow X Together’s latest album sold more than 2 million copies in the first week of its release, the group’s agency said Thursday. “The Name Chapter: Temptation,” the quintet’s fifth EP, sold 2,027,817 copies as of Wednesday, only six days after it dropped, BigHit Music said. [...]