Super pop star Taylor Swift, then Enhypen.

Group Enhypen has become the owner of the second best-selling album in the world. On the 19th (Korean time), Enhypen ranked their second full-length album Romance: Untold‘ in two major album charts announced by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). They ranked 4th on the ‘Global Album Chart 2024’ and 2nd on the ‘Global Album Sales Chart 2024’.

In particular, they are garnering attention from global fandoms as they top each chart based on the second-highest album sales (physical album sales and total album downloads combined) after American superstar Taylor Swift.

ENHYPEN‘s ‘Romance: Untold’, released in July of last year, and the repackaged album ‘Romance: Untold-Daydream’, released in November, sold 2.97 million copies and 1.49 million copies, respectively. Their total cumulative album sales are a whopping 5.45 million copies.

Thanks to the explosive popularity of the album, ENHYPEN achieved the feat of jumping up 14 places on the ‘Global Album Sales Chart’ in just one year, from 16th (Dark Blood) and 19th (Orange Blood) in 2023. Among K-pop artists, they beat Seventeen (3rd and 4th), Stray Kids (5th and 6th), and Ive (7th) to take the highest ranking.

They entered the ‘Top 20’ for the first time on the ‘Global Artist Chart 2024’, rising to 14th place. On the chart, Seventeen ranked 3rd, and Stray Kids ranked 5th.


Reporter Yoo Ji-hye yjh0304@donga.com

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