SEVENTEEN has still a week before they officially release their upcoming 11th mini-album SEVENTEENTH HEAVEN but it’s already making new personal records for the K-pop boy group.
On Thursday, October 12, album distributor YG PLUS announced that SEVENTEENTH HEAVEN has already recorded a total of 4,673,069 stock pre-orders so far.
📰 231012 SEVENTEEN 11th Mini Album 'SEVENTEENTH HEAVEN' recorded a total of 4.67 MILLION pre-orders, surpassing their 4th Full Album 'FML' (4.64M) and is now their highest pre-order sales so far!! 🥳🤍
🖇️ https://t.co/ftmrk2QFoJ pic.twitter.com/JRxaxB67AY
— . (@svtcontents) October 12, 2023
For those unfamiliar, stock pre-orders refer to the number of albums that were ordered by fans before its actual release. As a result, said album has set a new career high in SEVENTEEN’s discography. And what makes this achievement even more remarkable is it came just six months after their previous milestone.
SEVENTEEN (세븐틴) 11th Mini Album ‘SEVENTEENTH HEAVEN’
Official Photo PM 2:14 Ver.🎼 2023.10.23 6PM (KST)
🎼 2023.10.23 5AM (ET)#SEVENTEEN #세븐틴#SEVENTEENTH_HEAVEN pic.twitter.com/b25lRAosYg— 세븐틴(SEVENTEEN) (@pledis_17) October 11, 2023
Previously, the group’s 10th mini-album FML, which was released in May, recorded 4.64 million copies in pre-orders.
With this feat of SEVENTEENTH HEAVEN, it now ranked second among the top 20 albums with the highest stock pre-orders in K-pop history. In the first place is Stray Kids’ 5-Star album with 5,130,000 pre-orders.
Top 20 albums with the highest stock pre-orders
2. #SEVENTEEN SEVENTEENTH HEAVEN — 4,670,000 🆕 pic.twitter.com/4hLaNFkwPg
— KOREAN SALES (@koreansales_twt) October 12, 2023
Since there’s still roughly 10 days before the official release of SEVENTEENTH HEAVEN, fans of SEVENTEEN are hopeful that they’ll rank higher once the pre-order season ends.
Given the pre-order records from SEVENTEENTH HEAVEN, charts are declaring that SEVENTEEN is about to surpass 30 million album sales on Circle Chart.
In fact, SEVENTEEN already surpasses 10 million album sales for 2023 even without the count from SEVENTEENTH HEAVEN. According to PLEDIS Entertainment, the “Super” hitmakers have already sold an unprecedented record of 11,043, 625 physical albums, from January to September of 2023 alone.
With pre-orders, #SEVENTEEN would be surpassing 30.8 million copies on Circle Chart.
— KOREAN SALES (@koreansales_twt) October 12, 2023
Impressive year for SEVENTEEN
2023 really appeared to be pivotal for SEVENTEEN.
In terms of group album releases, their two comebacks for 2023, FML and SEVENTEENTH HEAVEN, were both setting records. Aside from group albums, the comeback of SEVENTEEN’s subunit BSS also topped local and international charts.
According to streaming platform, BSS and SEVENTEEN dominated the 2023 charts.
Most popular boy group songs on MelOn each month in 2023 so far:
January: NCT DREAM – Candy
February: BSS – Fighting
March: BSS – Fighting
April: BSS – Fighting
May: SEVENTEEN – Super
June: SEVENTEEN – Super
July: SEVENTEEN – Super
August: SEVENTEEN – Super… pic.twitter.com/EFgk3yUxRs— Kpop Charts (@kchartsmaster) October 2, 2023
Apart from music, the group also proved their entertainment skills through a number of variety shows.
As of writing, Jeonghan and Dino are part of the travel program Magic Lamp. Meanwhile, Seungkwan participated in the Netflix survival show The Devil’s Plan and Joshua and Hoshi participated in Bro Marble.
Moreover, Jun also starred in the Chinese drama Exclusive Fairytale. To which he won a “Rising Star of the Year” award.
Additionally, SEVENTEEN has also finished shooting Nana’s Tour, the group’s version of Youth Over Flowers with PD Na Yeong Seok. Details about the show’s release are yet to be announced.
Featured image: SEVENTEEN poses for their concept photo in ‘SEVENTEENTH HEAVEN.’ Credit: Twitter/SEVENTEEN