SEVENTEEN, ENHYPEN, TREASURE… 5 Great Emperors Oricon Annual Album Ranking 40% Monopolized
The momentum befitting the holder of the title of ‘King of Albums’. Seventeen, who has placed 3 albums, including a best album, in the upper ranks of the Oricon annual album rankings. Photo courtesy of Pledis
The five kings of K-pop swept over ‘40%’ of the top rankings of Japanese album sales. They are Seventeen, Stray Kids, Tomorrow x Together, Enhypen, and Treasure.
The five teams that form the top tier of male idols, acknowledged by everyone, swept 40% of Japan‘s Oricon’s ‘Annual Album Rankings’.’ According to the annual album rankings of the two main charts in the ‘Annual Ranking 2024’ recently announced by Oricon, they monopolized 10 rankings, accounting for 40% of the top 25.
A common denominator was also found, with SEVENTEEN having 3 albums, TREASURE having 1, and the other three groups having 2 albums each, which made almost all of their albums released in both Korea and Japan last year and this year ‘chart-included’.
Despite the physical limitations of a 2-CD album, SEVENTEEN took 4th place with their best album ‘17 Is Right Here’, which unfailingly became a million-seller, and 5th place with their 12th mini-album ‘Spiel The Feels’, released in the second half of the year. Also notable is their 11th mini-album (13th place), which succeeded in entering the charts despite being released in the second half of last year.
Stray Kids also did not disappoint. Their mini album ‘Eight’, released in July, ranked 15th, and their second Japanese album ‘Giant’, released locally last November, rose to 6th place in the annual rankings in just over a month of aggregation.
TXT also succeeded in entering the double chart. ‘MiniSode 3: Tomorrow’ and ‘Star Chapter: Sanctuary’, released in the first and second halves of the year, ranked 22nd and 8th respectively.
Enhypen‘s 2nd regular album, which was praised as the ’Album of the Year‘, was released on May 18. Photo courtesy of Belift Lab
ENHYPEN showed off the miracle of ranking both their second regular album and the repackage, which share ‘Same Roots’, within the top 25. Their second full-length album ‘Romance: Untold’ ranked 9th, and the repackaged version of the same album, ‘Romance: Untold~Daydream~’, ranked 19th. The two albums that share the same name, ‘Romance: Untold’, have sold a record-breaking 4 million copies, becoming ‘Quadruple Million Sellers’.
Photo courtesy of YG Entertainment of TREASURE, who entered the Oricon annual rankings this year with their second full-length album released last year.
Meanwhile, TREASURE‘s second full-length album ‘Reboot’, released in July of last year, was included in the annual chart again this year, earning recognition as a ‘masterpiece’. TREASURE’s ‘Reboot’ ranked 24th.
Meanwhile, BTS‘s Jin was the only K-pop solo artist to make it onto the chart. Jin ranked 14th with ‘Happy’, his comeback album after his military service and his first solo album.
Reporter Heo Min-nyeong mignon@donga.com
