Red Velvet has cracked the one million mark with Birthday!
The five-member girl group reached a special milestone in their career on January 20, as SM Entertainment announced today. Namely, the new album "The ReVe Festival 2022 Birthday" cracked the one million mark on Friday! According to SM, exactly 1,029,463 copies have been sold as of January 20!
Congratulations Red Velvet!
It's Red Velvet's first album to sell one million copies, and it shows that the girl group is still going strong more than nine years after their debut!
Red Velvet made their debut in August 2014 and have since released 19 album and a number of singles. You can learn more about the group's career here.
The ReVe Festival 2022 Birthday
Red Velvet set a personal record with the mini album 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 success series with the next album?
Until then, it will probably take some time, because 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 16.
And just on December 26, SM Entertainment released the winter album "SMCU Palace" , in which Red Velvet also participated. Together with aespa, the five members of Red Velvet even sang the lead single "Beautiful Christmas".
The One Million Barrier
Red Velvet is already the second group this year to celebrate this great success.
On January 12, ITZY also broke the million barrier with their latest album Cheshire, which was released in November 2022.
It is already the second million seller of ITZY, after "Checkmate". This makes ITZY currently the only fourth-generation girl group to have more than one million sellers, by the way.
In total, 20 K-Pop albums from 2022 have broken the one million barrier, five of them even the two million barrier. We are already curious 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 one million copies in 2022, you can read on here!
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