Wednesday, December 28, 2016

EXO tops sales records with 2.13 million.

Pop group EXO has proved to themselves, their fans and public that they are the number 1 idol boy band in South Korea. According to SM Entertainment, the cumulative sales of their records hit 2.13 million.

EXO has sold a total of 1,170,000 copies of its regular 3rd album 'Project', which was released in June, and 'LOTTO', a regular 3-volume package in August. A total of whopping 425,000 copies of the special winter album "For Life" released this month was sold as well.

In addition to this, EXO-CBX's first mini-album Hey Mama!- from the first unit of EXO has sold 276,000 pieces, and member Lay's first solo album, "LOSE CONTROL" also sold at 260,000 copies on the 27th of the same cumulative sales volume.

As the music market industry has been reorganized, the sales volume of album per group has exceeded 50,000. In particular, EXO has recorded the album sales volume of 1, 2, and 3 albums exceeding over 1 million copies.

Since 2013, the boy group has won the grand prize at various annual awards ceremony. This year, at the Mnet Asian Music Award (MAMA), EXO has won for the fourth consecutive year -Dae-Sang award as well as the Melon Music Award (MMA) and Asian Artist Awards (AAA).

Their concert tickets were mostly sold out with their third concert of the year- Exoplanet # 3 - The Exodus. They have also performed at Osaka Kyocera Dome performance on November 11. 

In addition, this year main vocalist Baekhyun collaborated a due with Miss A's Suzy entitled Dream. Besides that, the group showed their new dancing movements and new single Dancing King in a special project with Infinite Challenge main MC Yoo Jae Suk. Fellow member D.O (Kyungsoo)'s film 'Brother' with actor Jo Jung Suk has attracted 3 million viewers at the local cinemas. 

Coming 29th December, EXO is expected to appear for the 2016 KBS Music Festival and 2016 MBC Music Festival on 31st December.



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