SM's hot new rookie group RIIZE has wrapped up their first-week sales with an impressive figure.
On an online forum, netizens congratulated RIIZE selling over 1.01 million copies of their debut album, 'Get A Guitar.' Launched on September 4, the album gained immediate success as sales soared past 178,000 copies on the first day alone, an astounding feat for a rookie group.
The popularity of RIIZE continued as the second day's sales figures ascended to an outstanding 310,500. On the final day of the week, a remarkable 227,800 copies were sold, resulting in the total number of copies sold in the first week as more than 1,016,800.
The graph below shows the steady rise of the total number of albums sold throughout the first week.
Netizens congratulated the group for their successful debut and left comments such as:
"This is CRAZYYYY"
"Congrats!!!"
"Lol I was curious and almost wanted someone to buy 50,000 albums for them to surpass 1 million haha"
"Yay! I thought there would be a chance that they wouldn't surpass 1 million for being short of about 50k"
"Over 1 million for a debut album???"
"This was possible???"
"I had no idea this would be possible for a debut"
"Only 2 versions of the album and they created this record????"
"This kind of shows how much people were hungry for a new boy group from SM"
"I have started to fangirl for the first time in a WHILE"
"I can't believe they sucked me back into K-Pop"
What are your thoughts?
It’s a solid debut!! It’s been a long time since I’ve seen such a memorable boy group debut.