SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy band NCT 127′s latest album has sold more than 3 million copies, its management agency said Wednesday. According to SM Entertainment, the accumulated sales of “Sticker,” the group’s third full-length album released on Sept. 17, and “Favorite,” a repackaged version released on Oct. 25, had come to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The local pop culture market has suffered a heavy blow from the protracted COVID-19 pandemic, but the K-pop industry remains less affected thanks to the strongest sales of physical albums in a decade. “Noeasy,” the second full-length album by boy band Stray Kids, recently became the first-ever million seller [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop album sales have grown further as new fans of the genre have snatched up old albums in addition to new ones, industry sources said Monday. K-pop powerhouse SM Entertainment sold 1.64 million copies of old albums by artists, including NCT and EXO, in the second quarter, a large [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy band EXO has added another album to its list of million-selling albums with the latest release “Don’t Fight the Feeling,” its management agency said Tuesday. The EP, released last week, has sold 1.09 million copies as of Sunday, becoming the nine-member group’s sixth million-selling album, according to [...]
SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Rose, a member of K-pop girl group BLACKPINK, has sold more than 500,000 units of her first solo album “R,” becoming the first South Korean female soloist to breach the half-million sales mark in about 19 years, her management agency said Thursday. As of Tuesday, “R” had sold a [...]
SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Baekhyun, a member of K-pop boy band EXO, now has two million-selling solo titles under his belt, his agency said Monday. The singer’s third EP, titled “Bambi,” sold a total of 1 million copies as of Sunday, 20 days after its release on March 30, according to SM Entertainment. [...]
SEOUL, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop superstar BTS swept the top two spots on a worldwide album sales chart last year, according to an organization representing the global recording industry. The International Federation of Phonographic Industry (IFPI) said Thursday (U.S. time) that “Map of the Soul: 7″ ranked No. 1 and “BE” No. 2 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The BTS album “Map of the Soul: 7,” featuring hit tracks “On” and “Boy with Luv,” has been tallied as the bestselling physical album in the United States last year. Physical album sales of the septet’s fourth full album released in February reached 646,000 in the U.S., according to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — On the back of the increasing fandom of K-pop idols throughout the world, South Korea’s music album market is growing at a blistering pace, with sales of music albums estimated to have already exceeded the 30 million mark this year. According to the Gaon Chart run by the Korea [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — After becoming the first K-pop girl group to rank No. 2 on the Billboard main album chart, BLACKPINK has set another record by becoming the first all-female act to sell more than 1 million albums, its agency said Monday. “The Album,” the group’s first studio album released earlier this [...]