List of best-selling albums in South Korea

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This list is complete and up to date as of December 2021.
BTS' Map of the Soul: 7 is the best-selling album of all time in South Korea, with over 4.7 million copies sold. The group achieved the first album to sell over 1 million copies since 2001 in 2017 with Love Yourself: Her, the first album to sell over 2 million copies since 2000 in 2018 with Love Yourself: Answer, and the first album to sell over 3 million copies since 1997 in 2019 with Map of the Soul: Persona.
Kim Gun-mo's Wrongful Encounter was the best-selling album in South Korea for 24 years, having sold an estimated 3.3 million copies.

This is a list of the best-selling albums of recorded music in South Korea. To appear on the list, the figure must have been published by a reliable source and the album must have sold at least 1 million copies. The best-selling album in South Korea as of 2021 is Map of the Soul: 7, by South Korean boy band BTS. The studio album, released in February 2020, became the best-selling album in South Korea of all time, with over 4.1 million copies sold in less than a month.[1] Including figures based on illegal sales, Kim Gun-mo's 1995 studio album Wrongful Encounter is estimated to have sold at least 3.3 million copies,[2][3][4] and held the record as the best-selling South Korean album for 24 years until it was broken by BTS with Map of the Soul: Persona in 2019.

All albums that have sold over one million copies in South Korea are by Korean artists, with the exception of Whitney Houston's The Bodyguard (1992) and Mariah Carey's Music Box (1993). BTS is the act with the most million-selling albums, having ten, followed by Kim Gun-mo, Shin Seung-hun, and Seo Taiji with six each. BTS' Love Yourself: Her became the first album released since 2001 to sell over 1 million copies in 2017,[5][6] and BTS' Love Yourself: Answer became the first album to sell over 2 million copies since 2000 in 2018.[7] BTS' Map of the Soul: Persona became the first album to sell over 3 million copies since 1997 in 2019, followed by Map of the Soul: 7 which became the first album ever to surpass 4 million sales in 2020.[8] In 2013, the combined sales of Exo's XOXO and its repackage exceeded 1 million copies,[9] and in 2019 BTS became the first act to sell 1 million copies of both an album and its repackage, with Wings and You Never Walk Alone each surpassing 1 million sales.

On September 10, 1998, the Korea Video & Record Distributors Association (KVRDA) published the first South Korean sales charts, tallying album sales figures for the month of August and the March-August semester.[10] Between 1999 and 2007, the Music Industry Association of Korea (MIAK) published monthly charts, with fifty chart positions and detailed sales for each album.[11] Following the sharp decline of domestic music sales in the 21st century,[12] the Korea Music Content Association (KMCA) introduced the Gaon Album Chart in February 2010, which included a detailed breakdown of online chart data.[13] The KMCA began awarding sales certifications for albums in April 2018—only albums released after January 1, 2018 are eligible.[13] Certifications are not included in this list, because the Gaon Music Chart publishes detailed album sales.

Legend[]

Colors
Standard album
Repackage album
Compilation album
Single album
Original soundtrack

2 million or more copies[]

Artist Album Year Sales Estimates[a] Ref.
BTS Map of the Soul: 7 2020 4,722,167 [16]
BTS Map of the Soul: Persona 2019 4,273,920 [17]
BTS Be 2020 3,741,518 [18]
BTS Love Yourself: Answer 2018 3,143,152 [19]
BTS Butter 2021 2,999,407 [20]
Kim Gun-mo Wrongful Encounter 1995 2,860,000 3,300,000 [21][4]
Lee Moon-sae When Love Passes By 1987 2,850,000 [22]
BTS Love Yourself: Tear 2018 2,807,638 [23]
BTS Love Yourself: Her 2017 2,738,280 [24]
Lee Moon-sae Standing Under the Shade of a Roadside Tree 1988 2,580,000 [22]
Kim Jong-hwan Reason for Existence 1996 2,500,000 [25]
Shin Seung-hun To Heaven 1996 2,470,000 [26]
NCT 127 Sticker 2021 2,427,559 [27]
Seo Taiji and Boys Seo Taiji and Boys IV 1995 2,400,000 [28]
Seo Taiji and Boys Seo Taiji and Boys II 1993 2,200,000 [28]
Jo Kwan-woo Memory 1995 2,140,000 3,000,000 [29][30]
NCT Dream Hot Sauce 2021 2,097,185 [31]
Seventeen Attacca 2021 2,083,551[b] [32]
Jo Sung-mo Let Me Love 2000 2,072,029 [33][34]
Jo Sung-mo For Your Soul 1999 2,047,152 [35]
Yoo Jae-ha Because I Love You 1987 2,000,000 [36]
Byun Jin-sub Back To You 1989 2,000,000 3,000,000 [37][38]

1 million–1.9 million copies[]

Artist Album Year Sales Estimates[a] Ref.
DJ DOC DJ2DOC 1996 1,950,000 [39]
g.o.d Chapter 3 2000 1,849,381 [40][41]
Kim Gun-mo Excuse 1993 1,830,000 [42]
Various artists Sonata 2001 1,815,296 [43]
Kim Gun-mo Exchange 1996 1,810,000 [42]
Byun Jin-sub To Be Alone 1988 1,800,000 [38]
Seo Taiji and Boys Seo Taiji and Boys 1992 1,800,000 [28]
Shin Seung-hun After A Long Time 1994 1,800,000 [44]
g.o.d Chapter 4 2001 1,738,082 [45]
Shin Seung-hun Because I Love You 1993 1,700,000 [44]
NCT Universe 2021 1,630,715 [46]
Seo Taiji and Boys Seo Taiji and Boys III 1994 1,600,000 [47]
Roo'ra The Angel Who Lost Wings 1995 1,600,000 [48]
Jo Sung-mo Classic 2000 1,599,111 [49]
Shin Seung-hun Invisible Love 1991 1,580,000 [44]
NCT Resonance Pt. 1 2020 1,553,678[b] [50]
Lee Moon-sae I Don't Know Yet 1985 1,500,000 [22]
H.O.T. We Hate All Kinds of Violence 1996 1,500,000 [51]
H.O.T. Wolf and Sheep 1997 1,500,000 [52]
Seventeen Your Choice 2021 1,462,405 [53]
Blackpink The Album 2020 1,454,410[c] [54]
Seventeen Heng:garæ 2020 1,452,174[b] [55]
Exo Don't Mess Up My Tempo 2018 1,452,030 [56]
NCT Resonance Pt. 2 2020 1,444,729[b] [57]
BTS Wings 2016 1,413,799 [58]
Shin Seung-hun Reflection of You in Your Smile 1990 1,400,000 [26]
Kim Won-jun While You Were Not Here 1994 1,400,000 [59]
Kim Gun-mo Another Days 2001 1,397,388 [60]
H.O.T. I Yah! 1999 1,383,985 [61]
Exo Don't Fight the Feeling 2021 1,326,189 [62]
Shin Seung-hun Shin Seung Hun VI 1998 1,310,000 [63]
Stray Kids Noeasy 2021 1,303,106 [64]
BTS You Never Walk Alone 2017 1,300,841 [65]
Jo Kwan-woo My Third Story About... 1996 1,300,000 [30]
Seo Taiji Ultramania 2000 1,300,000 [66]
NCT Dream Hello Future 2021 1,294,646[b] [67]
Kim Gun-mo Myself 1997 1,210,000 [42]
Enhypen Dimension: Dilemma 2021 1,205,949 [68]
Byun Jin-sub Farewell 1990 1,200,000 [37]
Whitney Houston/various artists The Bodyguard Original Soundtrack Album 1992 1,200,000 [69]
Seventeen Semicolon 2020 1,165,558 [70]
NCT 127 Favorite 2021 1,165,336[b] [71]
Seo Taiji Seo Tai Ji 1998 1,133,736 [72]
Seventeen An Ode 2019 1,127,336[b] [73]
Clon Are You Ready? 1996 1,120,000 [39]
H.O.T. Resurrection 1998 1,103,439 [74]
Kim Hyun-sik My Love by My Side 1991 1,100,000 2,000,000 [75][15]
Kim Jong-hwan For Love 1997 1,100,000 3,000,000 [76][15]
BTS The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: Young Forever 2016 1,033,652 [77]
Baekhyun Delight 2020 1,031,993[b] [78]
NCT 127 Neo Zone 2020 1,014,581[b] [79]
Mariah Carey Music Box 1993 1,000,682 [80]
The Pearl Sisters My Dear 1968 1,000,000 [81]
Shin Jung Hyun & Yup Juns Shin Jung Hyun & Yup Juns Vol. 1 1974 1,000,000 [82]
Cho Yong-pil Woman Outside the Window 1980 1,000,000 [83]
Joo Hyun-mi Couple's Party 1984 1,000,000 [84]
Kim Wan-sun Pierrot Smiles at Us 1990 1,000,000 [85]
015B The Third Wave 1992 1,000,000 [86]
Kim Gun-mo Sleepless Rainy Night 1992 1,000,000 [87]
015B The Fourth Movement 1993 1,000,000 [86]
Jo Kwan-woo My First Story 1994 1,000,000 [30]
015B Big 5 1994 1,000,000 [86]
DJ DOC 4th Album 1997 1,000,000 [88]
Jo Kwan-woo Waiting 1997 1,000,000 [89]

Best-selling album by year[]

Sales of standard release and reissue albums in a year. This list does not include sales of the same album in other years apart from the specified calendar year. For a list of total sales, see sections above.

Year Artist Album Sales Ref.
1998 Seo Taiji Seo Tai Ji 1,133,736[d] [72]
1999 Jo Sung-mo For Your Soul 1,949,043 [61]
2000 Let Me Love 1,968,967 [40]
2001 Various artists Sonata 1,688,129 [90]
2002 Cool 7even 647,052 [91]
2003 Kim Gun-mo Hestory 529,416 [92]
2004 Seo Taiji 7th Issue 482,066 [93]
2005 SG Wannabe Saldaga 414,855[e] [94]
2006 TVXQ "O"-Jung.Ban.Hap. 349,317 [95]
2007 SG Wannabe The Sentimental Chord 190,998 [96]
2010 Super Junior Bonamana 200,193 [97]
2011 Girls' Generation The Boys 385,348 [98]
2012 Super Junior Sexy, Free & Single 356,431 [99]
2013 Exo Growl (Korean Version) 335,823 [100]
2014 Exo-K Overdose (Korean Version) 385,047 [101]
2015 Exo Exodus (Korean Version) 478,856 [102]
2016 BTS Wings 751,301 [103]
2017 Love Yourself: Her 1,493,443 [104]
2018 BTS Love Yourself: Answer 2,197,808 [105]
2019 BTS Map of the Soul: Persona 3,718,230 [106]
2020 Map of the Soul: 7 4,376,975 [107]
2021 BTS Butter 2,999,407 [108]

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ a b Estimates are based on "Gil Board Chart",[14] illegal copies sold from pirated CD's or cassettes. Although considered unofficial, some estimates have been verified and used in official capacity such as Guinness World Records and the Golden Disc Awards.[15]
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Combined sales of CD and Kit.
  3. ^ Combined sales of CD and LP.
  4. ^ Sales figure only includes sales up to August 1998.
  5. ^ This figure includes repackage sales as only combined sales data was made available after the album's release.

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  16. ^ Cumulative sales of Map of the Soul: 7:
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  17. ^ Cumulative sales of Map of the Soul: Persona:
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  18. ^ Cumulative sales of Be:
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  19. ^ Cumulative sales of Love Yourself: Answer:
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  20. ^ Cumulative sales of Butter:
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  23. ^ Cumulative sales of Love Yourself: Tear:
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  24. ^ Cumulative sales of Love Yourself: Her:
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  27. ^ Cumulative sales of Sticker:
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  31. ^ Cumulative sales of Hot Sauce:
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  32. ^ Cumulative sales of Attacca (CD + kit):
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  43. ^ Cumulative sales of Sonata:
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  50. ^ Cumulative sales of Resonance Pt. 1 (CD + kit):
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  53. ^ Cumulative sales of Your Choice:
    • 2021년 Album Chart [2021 Album Chart] (in Korean). Gaon Music Chart. Retrieved January 7, 2022.
  54. ^ Cumulative sales of The Album (CD + LP):
  55. ^ Cumulative sales of Heng:garæ (CD + kit):
  56. ^ Cumulative sales of Don't Mess Up My Tempo:
    • 2018년 Album Chart [2018 Album Chart] (in Korean). Gaon Album Chart. Retrieved January 11, 2019.
  57. ^ Cumulative sales of Resonance Pt. 2 (CD + kit):
    • 2020년 Album Chart [2020 Album Chart] (in Korean). Gaon Music Chart. Retrieved January 8, 2021.
    • 2021년 Album Chart [2021 Album Chart] (in Korean). Gaon Music Chart. Retrieved January 7, 2022.
  58. ^ Cumulative sales of Wings:
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