SEVENTEEN anniversary sales
- SEVENTEEN’s album "FML" marked its three-year anniversary and remains South Korea’s best-selling album. (x.com) - The record has reached roughly 6.4 million sales since release, per anniversary posts. (x.com) - Social discussion framed the milestone as a K-pop sales benchmark amid streaming-era conversations. (x.com)
Three years after its April 24, 2023 release, SEVENTEEN’s *FML* is still the best-selling album in South Korean chart history. (circlechart.kr) The album crossed 6.2 million copies by July 2023, according to Pledis Entertainment and distributor YG Plus, becoming the first K-pop album to clear 6 million sales. (en.yna.co.kr) Industry and fan tracking now place *FML* at roughly 6.4 million copies, a figure also echoed when the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry said it sold 6.4 million units globally in 2023. (ifpi.org) That South Korea record is built on Circle Chart’s album methodology, which counts shipments minus returns for physical releases such as CDs, platform albums and kits. (circlechart.kr) The release arrived with unusual scale from the start: IFPI said *FML* was the most pre-ordered K-pop album in history before it came out, and the EP debuted at No. 1 in South Korea and Japan. (ifpi.org) Outside Korea, *FML* also became the world’s top-selling album of 2023 on IFPI’s global chart, which combines physical sales, downloads and streaming across the calendar year. (ifpi.org) In the United States, the EP debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 in May 2023, then became SEVENTEEN’s highest-charting release there at the time. (en.yna.co.kr) The anniversary chatter around *FML* has focused on a simple contrast: in a streaming-led market, one K-pop release is still being measured by how many physical copies fans bought. (ifpi.org) Three years on, the number attached to *FML* still serves as the benchmark other blockbuster K-pop albums are judged against. (circlechart.kr)
