SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop supergroup BTS’ new album “Proof” sold over 2.75 million copies in the first week of its release, a record for all K-pop albums released so far this year, its agency said Friday. The anthology album had sold a total of 2,752,496 copies as of Friday, just a week [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy group Seventeen’s fourth full-length album has sold more than 2 million copies in the first week of its release, a record for all albums released this year, the group’s agency said Friday. “Face the Sun” has sold 2,067,769 units since it hit music stores a week ago, [...]
SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop supergroup Seventeen sold 1.75 million copies of its new album on the first day of its release, a record for the group, its agency said Saturday. The boy band released its fourth full-length album “Face the Sun” featuring the lead single “Hot” at 1 p.m. Friday and sold [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The latest album from K-pop boy group Tomorrow X Together (TXT) has sold over a million copies for the first time in its three-year career, the group’s agency said Wednesday. TXT’s fourth EP “minisode 2: Thursday’s Child” has sold 1.07 million copies in just two days after its release [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Le Sserafim, the first girl group from K-pop powerhouse Hybe, has recorded the most first-week sales of any debut album by girl groups in South Korea ever, the group’s management agency said Monday. “Fearless,” the group’s first EP released last Monday, sold 307,450 copies in the first week of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy group Enhypen’s latest repackage album sold more than 500,0000 copies in the first week of its release, the group’s management agency said Tuesday. “Dimension: Answer,” a repackaged version of the group’s first full-length album “Dimension: Dilemma” released in October, has sold 514,291 copies for a week from [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The K-pop album market has been experiencing an unprecedented boom but the sales of digital music have been sluggish amid the coronavirus pandemic. According to the year-end data released by Korea’s album sales tracker Gaon Chart on Wednesday, the nation’s top 400 albums sold 57 million copies in and [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superstar BTS has grabbed the honor of having the most sold digital song of the year in the United States for the second time. “Butter” was the most sold digital song of the year in the country with 1.89 million downloads sold, according to an annual year-end report [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — New K-pop girl group Ive has recorded the most first-week sales of any debut album by girl groups in South Korea ever, the group’s agency said Friday. The six-piece group’s first single album “Eleven,” released on Dec. 1, sold 152,229 copies in the first week of its release, Starship [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Rising K-pop rookie band Enhypen became a “million-seller” through its first full-length album, the group’s management agency said Thursday. “Dimension: Dilemma” has sold 1,139,099 copies since its release on Oct. 12, Belift Lab said, citing data from music market tracker Gaon Chart. The album sold more than 810,000 copies [...]