List of best-selling albums in South Korea

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
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
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
9 1997 Wolf & Sheep H.O.T. 1,500,000
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 1993 The Bodyguard Whitney Houston 1,200,000[8][9]
2 1968 My Dear The Pearl Sisters 1,000,000+[10]
3 1984 Couple's Party Joo Hyun-Mi 1,000,000[11]
4 1999 Love S.E.S. 760,475[12]
5 1998 Sea & Eugene & Shoo S.E.S. 651,330[13]
6 1997 I'm Your Girl S.E.S. 650,000[14]
7 2000 A Letter from Greenland S.E.S. 626,565[15]
8 1993 Music Box Mariah Carey 600,000+[16]
9 1999 White Fin.K.L 593,816[17]
10 2002 No. 1 BoA 560,326[18]
11 1999 005.1999.06 Uhm Jung-hwa 552,373[19]
12 1999 Let's Go to My Star Lee Jung Hyun 541,106[20]
13 1999 A Seagull of Dream Kim Hyun-jung 501,423[21]
14 1997 After Love Uhm Jung-hwa 500,000
15 1998 Legend Kim Hyun-jung 482,639[22][23]
16 2011 The Boys Girls' Generation 472,616[24]
17 1998 Invitation Uhm Jung-hwa 468,910[25][26]
18 1993 Sorrowful Secret Uhm Jung-hwa 460,000
19 2000 Sad Expectation Uhm Jung-hwa 460,000
20 1999 Addio Yangpa 429,560[17]
21 2010 Oh! Girls' Generation 419,238[27]
22 1998 Best... My Songs Uhm Jung-hwa 410,000
23 2000 Now Fin.K.L 412,686[7]
24 2002 Choose My Life-U S.E.S 406,528[28]

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[29]
10 2001 Another Days Kim Gun-mo 1,397,388[6]
11 2013 XOXO EXO 1,331,971[30]
12 2015 EXODUS EXO 1,242,201[31]
13 2016 EX'ACT EXO 1,173,463[32]
14 1998 Resurrection H.O.T. 1,103,439[26]
15 1999 Over and Over Steve Yoo 986,010[7][29]
16 2001 No More Love Jo Sungmo 961,539[33]
17 2000 Outside Castle H.O.T. 879,613[7]
18 1997 Born Again Turbo 800,000[34]
19 1998 For Sale Steve Yoo 796,412[35]
20 1998 A Grief COOL 789,016[35]
21 1998 To Heaven Jo Sungmo 775,126[26]
22 2016 Wings BTS 681,924[36]
23 2014 Overdose (EP) EXO 679,277+[37]
24 1999 Now or Never Steve Seungjun Yoo 622,188[21]
25 2000 1 The Beatles 620,175[38][39]
26 2008 Mirotic TVXQ 517,000[40]
27 2000 E-Mail My Heart Turbo 595,401[7]
28 1999 Chapter 2:Love and Remember g.o.d 578,567[41]
29 1998 Perfect Love Turbo 562,478[25]
30 2013 Miracles In December (EP) EXO 547,346+[42]
31 2011 Mr. Simple Super Junior 543,623[27]
32 2015 Sing For You (EP) EXO 530,000+[43]
33 2012 Sexy, Free & Single Super Junior 495,616[27]
34 2012 MAMA (EP) EXO 487,654[44]
35 1999 "Growing" Kim Gun-mo 480,736[29]
36 2015 Made Series BIGBANG 460,429[45][46][47][48]
37 2012 Alive (EP) BIGBANG 451,506[49][50]
38 1998 Love Kim Min-jong 443,292[22][23]
39 1999 Destiny Kim Min-jong 442,682[21]
40 2005 Saldaga SG Wannabe 414,855[51]
41 2014 Mamacita Super Junior 413,869[52]
42 1998 Become a Star Im Chang-jung 400,273[35]

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 [35]
1999 For Your Soul Jo Sungmo 1,949,043 [29]
2000 Let Me Love Jo Sungmo 1,968,967 [7]
2001 Chapter 4:road G.O.D 1,588,215 [33]
2002 Truth Cool 647,052 [28]
2003 Hestory Kim Gun-mo 529,416 [53]
2004 7th Issue Seo Taiji 482,066 [54]
2005 Saldaga SG Wannabe 414,855 [51]
2006 "O"-Jung.Ban.Hap. TVXQ 349,317 [55]
2007 The Sentimental Chord SG Wannabe 190,998 [56]
2008 Mirotic TVXQ 502,837[a] [57]
2009 Sorry, Sorry Super Junior 250,683+[b] [58]
2010 Oh! Girls' Generation 419,238 [59]
2011 Mr. Simple Super Junior 479,329 [60]
2012 Sexy, Free & Single Super Junior 480,622 [61]
2013 XOXO EXO 1,006,473 [62]
2014 Overdose EXO 657,765 [52]
2015 EXODUS EXO 1,211,237 [45]
2016 EX'ACT EXO 1,170,000 (still counting)

See also

Notes

References

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