The group Seventeen(S.Coups, Jeonghan, Joshua, Jun, Hoshi, Wonwoo, Woozi, The8, Mingyu, DK, Seungkwan, Vernon, Dino)has proven their hot local popularity by topping major Japanese album charts.

According to Oricon on the 5th, SEVENTEEN’s 5th full-length album ‘HAPPY BURSTDAY’ took 1st place on the latest ‘Weekly Combined Album Ranking’ (as of June 9th / Aggregation period: May 26th - June 1st).SEVENTEEN took 14th place on this chart, breaking the record for most 1st places by a foreign artist.

Oricon’s ‘Weekly Album Combined Ranking’ ranks the albums by adding up CD sales, digital downloads, and streaming.Seventeen earned a total of 467,000 points, including approximately 457,000 CD sold.Oricon explained, “This is the highest weekly score among foreign artists this year.”

The new album also topped the ‘Weekly Digital Album Ranking’ and ‘Weekly Album Ranking’, which were compiled during the same period, becoming the triple crown winner of the Oricon Weekly Chart.

SEVENTEEN also stood out on Billboard Japan’s main charts.”HAPPY BURSTDAY” took first place on Billboard Japan’s “Top Albums Sales” (compiled from May 26 to June 1), which was released the previous day.The title song “THUNDER” ranked second on Billboard Japan’s rapid rise chart “Hot Shot Songs” and 12th on the comprehensive song chart “Hot 100.”

Released on the 26th of last month, ‘HAPPY BURSTDAY’ sold over 2.52 million copies in its first week of release, setting a record for the highest initial sales(album sales in the first week after release)for a K -pop album released this year.’THUNDER’ entered Billboard’s ‘Global 200’ and ‘Global(excluding US)’ charts(dated June 7)based on only music streaming and downloads for about 4 days after its release.

Meanwhile, the new season of SEVENTEEN’s own content ‘Going SEVENTEEN’ will meet viewers every Wednesday at 9 PM starting on the 25th.As the ‘Going SEVENTEEN’ comeback special, which was previously produced in a fake documentary format, garnered attention by being ranked on YouTube Korea’s ‘Top Rising Videos’, expectations for the new episodes are also skyrocketing.
Reporter Lee com -bi, Donga.com misty82@donga

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