Korea’s Hanteo Chart reveals list of top-selling albums in October

Nov 2, 2023 03:48 AM

South Korea’s Hanteo Chart, “the world’s one-and-only real time music chart,” has released the top-selling albums for the month of October.

K-pop group Seventeen’s record-breaking album “Seventeenth Heaven” topped the list with 5.17 million copies sold in October or equivalent to 5.96 million in physical record index (PRI) score, a combination of album sales and album price that is now being used by Hanteo Chart to rank albums.

(Clockwise from top left) Seventeen, Tomorrow X Together, IVE and NCT 127 (X, Big Hit Music)

Tomorrow X Together’s “The Name Chapter: Freefall” grabbed second place with 2.28 million copies in sales, or equivalent PRI of 2.49 million.

Girl group IVE’s “I’ve MINE” is in third place with 1.63 million or PRI of 1.89 million followed. NCT 127’s “Fact Check” with 1.82 million (1.85 million PRI).

Here are the 20 top-selling albums in South Korea based on Hanteo Chart’s monthly album chart ranked according to the physical record index scores

1. Seventeen - Seventeenth Heaven - 5,170,286 (number of copies sold) / 5,967,756 (physical record index score)

2. Tomorrow X Together - The Name Chapter: Freefall - 2,289,376 / 2,490,497

3. IVE - I’ve MINE - 1,631,039 / 1,898,520

4. NCT 127 - Fact Check - 1,821,551 / 1,855,316

5. Hwang Young Woong - Autumn, Longing - 373,285 / 447,942

6. EPEX - Can We Surrender? - 241,655 / 289,986

7. SHINee’s Taemin - Guilty - 125,590 / 144,590

8. ONF - Love Effect - 107,650 / 131,530

9. XG - NEW DNA - 47,858 / 110,073

10. (G)I-DLE - Heat - 85,198 / 99,247

11. Younite - BIT Part.2 - 92,715 / 97,240