Seventeen rakes in 10 million sales, continues to chart on Billboard
It looks like Seventeen is at its peak with the release of their latest K-pop album ‘Attacca’. The album had reached 1.4 million pre-orders in a day and fans knew that it would become a commercial success even before its release. The album’s title track ‘Rock with you’ topped 19 iTunes charts, as well as Japan’s Rakuten and AWA charts. ‘Attacca’ had debuted at #13 on Billboard 200 while it topped iTunes in 16 countries. The album is still making waves having secured a spot on Billboard even for the week of November 20.
Last week, ‘Attacca’ was at #2 for its third week on the Billboard’s World Albums Chart and had peaked at #1. It also became the first album of the K-pop group to spend two weeks on Billboard 200. It had also been #9 on the Top Current Album Sales Chart and #11 on the Top Album Sales Chart. We also saw ‘Rock with you’ at #15 on the World Digital Song Sales Chart. Seventeen’s lead single also entered the Global 200 Excl. US Chart.
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'Attacca' charts on Billboard
For this week, Seventeen is still on Billboard with their October release. 'Attacca' had earlier topped the Top Album Sales Chart and is now still on the chart for a third week in a row. ‘Attacca’ is also on the Top Current Albums Chart for the third week and had earlier peaked at #1. Even their previous release, ‘Your Choice’ re-entered the chart, making it the 20th week on the chart. 'Attacca' is also at #11 on the World Albums Chart. But what is even more impressive is that, on November 17, it was reported that Seventeen had crossed a total of 10 million sales.
Seventeen makes a total of 10 million sales
The group had debuted in 2015. Well, after six years since their debut, Seventeen has sold more than 10.13 million album copies. Fans were even more in awe, as this report has only factored in domestic album sales. With Seventeen being a popular global group, fans claim that if overseas sales are taken into account, the figure will definitely go higher. The group's label, Pledis released a progressive chart that shows that their sales shot up with Seventeen’s latest release.
The boys debuted by making only 1,400 sales in the first week of their debut album ‘17 CARAT’. According to Pledis, ‘You Made My Dawn’ was the moment when Seventeen was finally recognized in South Korea with the sales going as high as 500k. After that, their next three albums are all million sellers. However, ‘Attacca’, the fourth EP after ‘You Made My Dawn’ didn’t just cross a million but made 1.9 million sales. With 305k pure sales from Japan, ‘Attacca’ has crossed a total of 2.2 million sales.
In other news, Seventeen will also be holding a Japanese version of their recent online concert ‘Power of Love’. It will be broadcast on November 18 at 6 pm KST (4 am ET) and on November 21 at 5 pm KST (3 am ET).