Initial sales of ‘SUPER REAL ME’: approximately 380,000 copies
Overcoming LE SSERAFIM, New Jeans to take first place in the first week of the girl group's debut
Source: BELIFT LAB
[The Fact | Reporter Jeong Byeong-geun] Although the existence of BTS has great influence, boy band HYBE is still a super strong group. However, now it's a situation that has to be called a "famous girl group".
According to Hanteo Chart day 1, the mini album vol.1 SUPER REAL ME released on March 25 by ILLIT (Yoona, Minju, Mocha, Wonhee) has achieved sales of 385,000 copies (from March 25 to 31). This is the highest album sale by girlgroup.
What is more noteworthy here is the following ranking. Second place is the album 'New Jeans', released by NewJeans in August 2022, and third place is the album 'FEARLESS', released by LE SSERAFIM in May 2022. They recorded approximately 311,000 and 307,000 copies. ILLIT (Belief Lab), New Jeans (Adore) and LE SSERAFIM (Source Music) are all under HYBE Labels.
LE SSERAFIM and NewJeans took turns breaking records each time they debuted, and this time is ILLIT. In particular, it is very meaningful because this is a new record achieved in the context of album sales increasing explosively during the COVID-19 period but shifting to an overall downward trend starting in the second half of last year.
Initial album sales of approximately 380,000 copies show that the newly debuted ILLIT's fandom is quite strong. It doesn't stop here and is becoming more and more popular. The title song 'Magnetic' rose to No. 7 on Melon's daily chart on the 31st of last month amid the boom and rose to the top 5 on the 1st.
This is also the same case with HYBE's senior girl groups, New Jeans and LE SSERAFIM. New Jeans topped Melon's daily chart for a total of 18 days with the title track "Attention" from their debut album, and with the popularity of "Hype Boy", they maintained the No. 1 and 2 for a long time. LE SSERAFIM also peaked at number 7 with their debut song ‘FEARLESS’.
After achieving incredible success with their debut album, LE SSERAFIM and New Jeans immediately became million sellers and in just one to two years, they grew into a globally beloved group. Following them, expectations are also high for ILLIT, who is achieving record-breaking success with their debut album.
Magnetic is the first K-pop girl group's song to enter the debut day on Spotify's Daily Top Song Global program and is maintaining its sixth day. Thanks to that, the group has joined Weekly Top Song Global in the shortest time. among K-pop groups. Wonder what ILLIT will leave behind after finishing promotional activities for its debut album.
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