NCT DREAM becomes the only group with 3 million seller albums in 2022 after ‘Candy’ sells 1.2 million copies in 3 days

South Korean pop group NCT DREAM has achieved a special feat with latest winter album Candy which sold over 1.2 million copies in just 3 days. The group officially becomes the only artist with 3 million-seller albums in 2022

According to Korean tabloid Soompi, Candy is now NCT DREAM’s fastest album ever to hit the 1 million sales mark, breaking the group’s own record for the fastest SM Entertainment album to sell a million copies.

Additionally, with Candy the K-pop band has now become the only artist to surpass 1 million sales with three different albums in 2022 after previous million-selling albums Glitch Mode and its repackaged version Beatbox.

As the report further notes, Candy is also NCT DREAM’s fifth album overall to sell over a million copies, making the band only the third artist in Hanteo Chart’s history to have five million-seller albums, after BTS and SEVENTEEN.

The new album has been doing commercially well and achieved impressive feats in charts over multiple regions. The title track ‘Candy’ reached No. 1 on Melon’s Top 100. The song also hit No. 1 on Genie, Bugs, and Vibe, and it continues to rank within the top five on all Korea’s major real-time music charts, as per the report.

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