Seventeen conquers the Japanese charts

The group Seventeen (S.Coups, Jeonghan, Joshua, Jun, Hoshi, Wonwoo, Woozi, The8, Mingyu, DK, Seungkwan, Vernon, Dino) is sweeping the Japanese music charts.

According to the latest chart released by Oricon on the 5th, Seventeen's 10th mini album 'FML' ranked first in Oricon's weekly combined album rankings (as of May 8/counting period April 24-30). Prior to this, Seventeen also ranked first in Oricon's Weekly Album Ranking and Weekly Digital Album Ranking (as of May 8) with more than 552,000 copies of 'FML' sold in the first week.

In addition, Seventeen ranked first on Billboard Japan's 'Artist 100' chart (as of May 3), and 'FML' ranked first in 'Hot Albums', 'Download Albums', and 'Download Albums'. It swept the top spot on the ‘Top Albums Sales’ chart.

Seventeen became the only artist in the world to sell more than 3 million copies on the first day of release with 'FML', and 'FML' had the highest initial sales of a K-pop album in history with 4,550,214 copies sold in the first week of release. A record was set.

Meanwhile, Seventeen will release the music video for 'F*ck My Life', one of the double title songs, through Hive Labels' official YouTube channel at midnight on the 8th.

Ryu Ye-ji, Ten Asia Reporter ryuperstar@tenasia.co.kr