While every K-Pop group tries to sell their albums well, not many can reach the milestone of a million copies sold. To...
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While every K-Pop group tries to sell their albums well, not many can reach the milestone of a million copies sold. To get in this list, a group must sell 1 million copies or more with just 1 album. And in the history of K-Pop, there has been only 10 successful groups reaching this important milestone (only albums released in South Korea are counted).
BTS is the group with the most of albums surpassing 1 million copies sold so far with 6 albums, followed by EXO with 5 albums. Meanwhile, Seo Taiji and Boys, H.O.T, Sechskies and Wanna One are rare names that reached the milestone in the first year of their debut.
Let's take a look at the list of 10 K-Pop groups whose albums have sold over a million copies!
Seo Taiji and Boys (debuted in 1992)
"Seo Taiji and Boys" (1992) - 1,800,000 copies
"Seo Taiji and Boys II" (1993) - 2,200,000 copies
"Seo Taiji and Boys III" (1994) - 1,600,000 copies
"Seo Taiji and Boys IV" (1995) - 2,400,000 copies
Roo'ra (debuted in 1994)
"Angel with Lost Wings" (1995) - 1,600,000 copies
H.O.T (debuted in 1996)
"We Hate all Kinds of Violence" (1996) - 1,500,000 copies
"Wolf and Sheep" (1997) - 1,500,000 copies
"Resurrection" (1998) - 1,100,000 copies
"I Yah!" (1999) - 1,383,985 copies
Sechskies (debuted in 1997)
"School Byeolgok" (1997) - 1,200,000 copies
"Special Album" (1998) - 1,000,000 copies
g.o.d (debuted in 1999)
"Chapter 3: Lies" (2000) - 1,849,391 copies
"Chapter 4: Road" (2001) - 1,750,000 copies
EXO (debuted in 2012)
"XOXO" (2013) - 1,269,063 copies
"EXODUS" (2015) - 1,285,860 copies
"EX'ACT" (2016) - 1,187,681 copies
"The War" (2017) - 1,671,720 copies
"Don't Mess Up My Tempo" (2018) - 1,967,290 copies
BTS (debuted in 2013)
"Wings" (2016) - 2,215,617 copies
"Love Yourself: Her" (2017) - 2,269,441 copies
"Love Yourself: Tear" (2018) - 2,258,016 copies
"Love Yourself: Answer" (2018) - 2,631,760 copies
"Map of the Soul: Persona" (2019) - 3,813,288 copies
"Map of the Soul: 7" (2020) - 4,265,627 copies
SEVENTEEN (debuted in 2015)
"Heng:garae" (2020) - 1,235,859 copies
NCT 127 (debuted in 2016)
"Neo Zone" (2020) - 1,362,912 copies
Wanna One (debuted in 2017)
"1X1 =1 (To Be One)" (2017) - 1,454.23 copies