K-pop boy band Seventeen sold two million copies of their new album in one week to claim the status as a “double million seller.”
Seventeen released the studio album “Face the Sun” on May 27 containing the nine songs including “Hot.”
According to Korea’s Hanteo Chart, “Face the Sun” sold 2,067,769 copies in one week from May 27 to June 2.
The total is 731,907 copies higher than the first-week sales of Seventeen’s previous album “Attacca,” which had 1,335,862 copies.
Seventeen sold 1.75 million copies of “Face the Sun” on the first day of release.
With “Face the Sun,” Seventeen topped Hanteo’s weekly and monthly physical album charts. For the weekly period from May 23 to 29, “Face the Sun” sold 1.82 million copies.
For the month of May, Seventeen grabbed first place with “Face the Sun” selling 1.89 million copies.
Here is Hanteo Chart’s monthly album chart for May:
1. Seventeen - “Face the Sun” - 1,896,881 copies sold
2. TXT - Minisode 2: Thursday’s Child - 1,511,165
3. Lim Young-woong - I’m Hero - 1,108,979
4. NCT Dream - Beatbox - 454,052
5. GOT7 - GOT7 - 376,443
6. Le Sserafim - Fearless - 330,953
7. Kang Daniel - 1st Full Album: The Story -316,953
8. ASTRO - Drive to the Starry Road - 235,339
9. ONEUS - Trickster - 230,145
10. iKON - Flashback - 84,412
11. AB6IX - A to B - 80,665
12. Woodz - Colorful Trauma - 76,982
13. Monsta X - Shape of Love - 64,061
14. Ive - Love Dive - 61,349
15. Stray Kids - Oddinary - 59,630
16. BLANK2Y - K2Y I: Confidence: Thumbs Up - 58,645
17. Hwang Chi-yeul - By My Side - 44,746
18. Yerin - Aria - 39,834
19. NCT Dream - Glitch Mode - 35,839
20. TNX - Way Up - 33,583
21. DKZ - Chase, Ep. 2-Maum - 27,355
22. Mamamoo’s Moonbyul - C.I.T.T: Cheese in the Trap - 26,781
23. Victon - Chaos - 25,462
24. CLASS:Y - 1st Mini-Album Y: Class is Over - 22,186
25. Miyeon - MY - 20,769
26. Super Junior’s Ryeowook - A Wild Rose - 19,297
27. Lightsum - Into the Light - 18,279
28. NCT Dream - The First - 12,892
29. Onewe - Timeless - 12,331
30. Cipher - The Code - 11,066