SUPER JUNIOR showed explosive firepower worthy of a ‘K-pop legend ‘even in their comeback marking their 20th anniversary since debut.

Super Junior’s 12th full-length album ‘Super Junior IO(Super Junior25)’ sold over 309,959 copies in the first week after its release on July 8th according to Hanteo Chart, achieving Super Junior’s highest sales figure and proving their solid popularity even after their 20th debut anniversary.

In particular, on Taiwan’s largest music platform KKBOX’s real-time chart, K-pop new song daily chart, and K-pop single daily chart, the title song “Express Mode” of this album swept the top spots, and the remaining 8 songs all “lined up”, creating a spectacular scene where the top ranks of the charts were filled with Super Junior.

This album has already received global love, reaching #1 on the iTunes Top Albums Chart in 20 regions around the world, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Mexico, Singapore, and Thailand, #1 on the Chinese QQ Music and Kugou Music digital album sales charts, #1 on the Hanteo Chart daily chart, and #1 on the Bugs real-time chart.

Also, to commemorate their comeback, Super Junior conducted interviews with Brazil’s first K-culture related HIT ! Magazine, Billboard Brazil, and Italian weekly magazine Panorama, which garnered a lot of local interest and even received favorable reviews such as, “They rewrote the history of K-pop even before the world knew about it.”

Meanwhile, Super Junior will appear on YouTube Dingo Music Channel’s ‘Killing Voice’ content, which will be released at 7 PM on the 15th.



Reporter Kim Gyul- winter@donga.com

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