List of best-selling albums in South Korea

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This is the list of top ten best-selling albums in South Korea. All albums listed here have sold over 400,000 copies.

Best-selling albums

Rank Year Title Artist Claimed sales
1 1995 Mis-Encounter Kim Gun-mo 3,300,000[citation needed]
2 1999 For Your Soul Jo Sungmo 2,047,152[1]
3 2000 Let Me Love Jo Sungmo 2,042,096[2]
4 1992 Seo Taiji & Boys Seo Taiji & Boys 2,000,000[citation needed]
5 2000 Chapter 3:Lies g.o.d 1,824,278[3]
6 2001 Chapter 4:Road g.o.d 1,713,056[4]
7 2000 Classic Jo Sungmo 1,599,111[5]
8 1996 We Hate All Kinds Of Violence H.O.T. 1,500,000[citation needed]
9 1997 Wolf & Sheep H.O.T. 1,500,000[citation needed]
10 2001 Another Days Kim Gun-mo 1,397,388[6]
11 1999 I Yah! H.O.T. 1,383,985[7]

Best-selling albums by female artists

Rank Year Title Artist Sales
1 1968 My Dear The Pearl Sisters 1,000,000+[8]
2 1984 Couple's Party Joo Hyun-Mi 1,000,000[9]
3 1999 Love S.E.S. 760,475[10]
4 1998 Sea & Eugene & Shoo S.E.S. 651,330[11]
5 1997 I'm Your Girl S.E.S. 650,000[12]
6 2000 A Letter from Greenland S.E.S. 626,565[13]
7 1993 Music Box Mariah Carey 600,000+[14]
8 1999 White Fin.K.L 593,816[15]
9 2002 No. 1 BoA 560,326[16]
10 1999 005.1999.06 Uhm Jung-hwa 552,373[17]
11 1999 Let's Go to My Star Lee Jung Hyun 541,106[18]
12 1999 A Seagull of Dream Kim Hyun-jung 501,423[19]
13 1997 After Love Uhm Jung-hwa 500,000
14 1998 Legend Kim Hyun-jung 482,639[20][21]
15 2011 The Boys Girls' Generation 472,616[22]
16 1998 Invitation Uhm Jung-hwa 468,910[23][24]
17 1993 Sorrowful Secret Uhm Jung-hwa 460,000
18 2000 Sad Expectation Uhm Jung-hwa 460,000
19 1999 Addio Yangpa 429,560[15]
20 2010 Oh! Girls' Generation 419,238[25]
21 1998 Best... My Songs Uhm Jung-hwa 410,000
22 2000 Now Fin.K.L 412,686[7]
23 2002 Choose My Life-U S.E.S 406,528[26]

Male artists

Rank Year Title Artist Sales
1 1995 Mis-Encounter Kim Gun-mo 3,300,000
2 1999 For Your Soul Jo Sungmo 2,047,152[1]
3 2000 Let Me Love Jo Sungmo 2,042,096[2]
4 2000 Chapter 3: Lies g.o.d 1,824,278[3]
5 2001 Chapter 4: Road g.o.d 1,713,056[4]
6 2000 Classic Jo Sungmo 1,599,111[5]
7 1996 We Hate All Kinds of Violence H.O.T. 1,500,000
8 1997 Wolf & Sheep H.O.T. 1,500,000
9 1999 I Yah! H.O.T. 1,383,985[27]
10 2001 Another Days Kim Gun-mo 1,397,388[6]
11 2013 XOXO EXO 1,235,967[28]
12 2015 EXODUS EXO 1,214,805[29]
13 1998 Resurrection H.O.T. 1,103,439[24]
14 1999 Over and Over Steve Yoo 986,010[7][27]
15 2001 No More Love Jo Sungmo 961,539[30]
16 2000 Outside Castle H.O.T. 879,613[7]
17 1997 Born Again Turbo 800,000[31]
18 1998 For Sale Steve Yoo 796,412[32]
19 1998 A Grief COOL 789,016[32]
20 1998 To Heaven Jo Sungmo 775,126[24]
21 2014 Overdose (EP) EXO 674,747+[33]
22 1999 Now or Never Steve Seungjun Yoo 622,188[19]
23 2000 1 The Beatles 620,175[34][35]
24 2008 Mirotic TVXQ 615,000[36][37][38]
25 2000 E-Mail My Heart Turbo 595,401[7]
26 1999 Chapter 2:Love and Remember g.o.d 578,567[39]
27 1998 Perfect Love Turbo 562,478[23]
28 2006 "O"-Jung.Ban.Hap. TVXQ 555,000[36][37][40]
29 2013 Miracles In December (EP) EXO 547,346+[41]
30 2011 Mr. Simple Super Junior 543,623[25]
31 2015 Sing For You (EP) EXO 502,515[42]
32 2012 Sexy, Free & Single Super Junior 495,616[25]
33 1999 Growing Kim Gun-mo 480,736[27]
34 2012 MAMA (EP) EXO 480,285[43]
35 2015 Made Series BIGBANG 450,262[44][45]
36 1998 Love Kim Min-jong 443,292[20][21]
37 1999 Destiny Kim Min-jong 442,682[19]
38 2005 Saldaga SG Wannabe 414,855[46]
39 2012 Alive (EP) BIGBANG 414,518[25]
40 2014 Mamacita Super Junior 413,869[47]
41 1998 Become a Star Im Chang-jung 400,273[32]

Best-selling album by year

Units sold include sales of repackage albums.

Year Album Artist Sales Source
1998 Seo Taiji Seo Taiji 1,133,736 [32]
1999 For Your Soul Jo Sungmo 1,949,043 [27]
2000 Let Me Love Jo Sungmo 1,968,967 [7]
2001 Open the Various Artists 1,688,129 [30]
2002 Truth Cool 647,052 [26]
2003 Hestory Kim Gun-mo 529,416 [48]
2004 7th Issue Seo Taiji 482,066 [49]
2005 Saldaga SG Wannabe 414,855 [46]
2006 "O"-Jung.Ban.Hap. TVXQ 349,317 [50]
2007 The Sentimental Chord SG Wannabe 190,998 [51]
2008 Mirotic TVXQ 502,837[a] [52]
2009 Sorry, Sorry Super Junior 250,683+[b] [53]
2010 Oh! Girls' Generation 334,785 [54]
2011 Mr. Simple Super Junior 473,252 [55]
2012 Sexy, Free & Single Super Junior 356,431 [56]
2013 XOXO EXO 1,006,473 [57]
2014 Overdose EXO 657,765 [47]
2015 EXODUS EXO 1,211,237 [44]

See also

Notes

  • ^ Sales figure also includes sales of the week ending January 6, 2009.
  • ^ Sales figure only includes sales up to the sales week ending December 12, 2009.
  • ^ EXO's album sales combines the Korean version and the Chinese version.
  • ^ EXO's album Overdose is the first mini-album to become the best selling album of a particular year.

References

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  28. ↑ Cumulative sales for "XOXO":
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  42. ↑ Cumulative sales for "Sing for You":
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