According to the Hanteo chart on June 8, Stray Kids' comeback album '★★★★★ (5-STAR)' wrapped up its first-week sales with 4,617,499 copies sold, setting a new impressive record among Korean acts in history.
On the first day of its release, '★★★★★ (5-STAR)' had over 2.3 million units sold on Hanteo, making Stray Kids the third K-Pop act to have an album surpassing 2 million sales on the first day, after BTS and Seventeen.
After the first week ended, Stray Kids added a new record under their belt as '★★★★★ (5-STAR)' has become the best-selling first-week album sales of all time on Hanteo, breaking the record previously set by Seventeen's 'FML,' which had 4,550,214 million albums sold in the first week.
Congratulations to Stray Kids!
I cant imagine the Royalty fees that BANG CHAN, CHANGBIN & HAN will get. Bang Chan is classified as
Mechanical royaltors are owed to the composers (including the songwriters) and publisher of a musical work each time a song is sold (50% for the composer and 50% for the publisher). With 4.6M sales.... estimated Bang Chan USD$6M just only for 5 Star songs. How about the other albums he composed.... like Maxident, that's massive.
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