Red Velvet has cracked the one million mark with Birthday!
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The five-member girl group reached a special milestone in their career on January 20, SM Entertainment announced today. The new album “The ReVe Festival 2022 Birthday” cracked the one million mark on Friday! According to SM, as of January 20th, exactly 1,029,463 copies have been sold!
Congratulations Red Velvet!
It's Red Velvet's first album to sell a million copies and shows that the girl group is still going strong, even more than nine years after their debut!
Red Velvet made their debut in August 2014 and have since released 19 albums and a number of singles. Find out more about the group's history here.
The ReVe Festival 2022 Birthday
With the mini album, Red Velvet set a personal record even before its release. It was pre-ordered 712,187 times. Almost 200,000 times more than its predecessor "The ReVe Festival 2022 Feel My Rhythm" , which was pre-ordered 516,866 times!
Will the girl group continue this successful streak with their next album?
It will probably be a while before that happens, as Wendy and Seulgi are currently performing with the SM unit “Got the Beat”, which also includes members of SNSD and aespa. The mini album “Stamp on It” with the title song of the same name was released on January 16th.
And just on December 26th, SM Entertainment released the winter album “SMCU Palace” , in which Red Velvet was also involved. Together with aespa, Wendy, Joy, Irene, Yeri and Seulgi even sang the lead single “Beautiful Christmas”.
The One Million Mark
Red Velvet is already the second group this year to celebrate this great success.
On January 12th, ITZY also broke the million mark with their latest album Cheshire, which was released in November 2022.
It is ITZY's second million seller, after “Checkmate”. By the way, ITZY is currently the only fourth-generation girl group to have more than a million sellers.
A total of 20 K-pop albums from 2022 have broken the one million mark, five of them even the two million mark. We are already excited to see how many there will be in 2023. And most importantly, which will be the first album from this year to reach the milestone!
If you want to know exactly which albums sold more than a million copies in 2022, you can read on here!
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