BTS breaks 20 million album sales record in S. Korea

Boy band BTS has broken the cumulative album sales record of 20 million copies for the first time in the South Korean music industry. The seven-member South Korean boy band’s management company BigHit Entertainment announced on Thursday that BTS has sold 20.32 million copies based on the Gaon Music Chart’s March data. The previous best-selling record holder in the country was Shin Seung-hun with 17 million copies.

From BTS’s debut album in 2013 “2 COOL 4 SKOOL” to the most recent one launched in February this year “MAP OF THE SOUL: 7,” a total of 14 BTS albums have sold 20,329,305 copies. Thir seven albums have sold more than one million copies, including 4.17 million for “MAP OF THE SOUL: 7,” 3.77 million for “MAP OF THE SOUL: PERSONA,” and 2.59 million for “Love Yourself: Answer.”

The globally-popular band broke the 10 million record in accumulates sales in November 2018 – only one year and four months before their record has doubled. “MAP OF THE SOUL: 7” has been maintaining a high ranking for six consecutive weeks on the Billboard 200, a major album chart in the U.S.


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