SEVENTEEN: The album breaks records in Japan and the USA

Group SEVENTEEN topped the weekly Oricon Japanese Albums Chart with “FACE THE SUN.”

According to the latest chart released by Oricon on June 17, SEVENTEEN’s fourth full-length album “FACE THE SUN” topped the weekly combined album chart (as of June 20), which combines album and music scores.

As a result, SEVENTEEN set its own record with over 388,000 weekly points, ranking first for the sixth time on Oricon’s combined weekly album chart, and tied for first place in “Total Album Count”. .

Additionally, SEVENTEEN has proven its unparalleled popularity in Japan by topping the Billboard Japan “Artist 100” chart (as of June 15), topping the overall “Hot Album” album chart, and “Top Album” weekly album chart. Dirty”.

SEVENTEEN showed a “high carreer” with “FACE THE SUN”. The album recorded 2,067,769 initial sales (record sales in one week after its release), making it a “double million seller” (more than 2 million copies).

In addition, it entered the top 10 of the US Billboard’s “Billboard 200” main albums chart for the first time, up six notches from the previous record of “ATTACCA”, and topped the “Bestsellers albums”, “Current best-selling albums” and “Albums of the world”. It also ranked fifth on the “Artist 100” chart, its highest ranking.

SEVENTEEN will be holding its third world tour “SEVENTEEN WORLD TOUR [BET THE SUN]” starting with a performance in Seoul at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul from the 25th to the 26th.

Journalist: Shawn
Transaltor: Shawn
Source: Pledis Entertainment