Yeonjun Sold 661K Albums on Day One and We're All a Little Unwell About It
the man released a solo mini and immediately bodied every other soloist of the year. no notes, only screaming.
661,924 copies. ONE day. yeonjun released 'NO LABELS: PART 02' at 1 p.m. kst on july 10 and by the time hanteo finished counting he had the highest first-day sales of any korean soloist in 2026. the girlies are simply not okay.
for scale, because scale is the entire point here: his first solo mini needed a full WEEK to reach 601,105. he cleared that number before dinner on day one. the man is competing exclusively against himself and still not losing.
'Ice Cream' fronts the set and went straight to no. 1 on bugs' realtime chart at 2 p.m. kst — one hour after release. itunes fell in line right after: the album hit no. 1 in at least 11 regions, the single in at least 10. japan, thailand, saudi arabia, the UAE, vietnam, the philippines. it's a world tour, but of chart positions.
MOAs called this from the first solo teaser and were, annoyingly, correct. ate, left no crumbs, sent BIGHIT straight to the press release factory. 😮💨
Reported by Soompi. This article is Aegyo Arena's own write-up of that reporting.
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jennie dropped 'less than a lover' and bodied every soloist of 2026 in ONE day
no bc she woke up, released a single, and immediately went no. 1 on itunes in 27 countries like it was nothing. the girlies never stood a chance and honestly neither did i.
not to be dramatic at 9am but jennie really said 'watch this' and released 'less than a lover' on july 24 and the charts have not recovered since. mother is once again mothering and i am once again unwell.
within a day the single was sitting at no. 1 on itunes' top songs in more than 27 regions — philippines, indonesia, brazil, you name it. that's the most countries any k-pop soloist has topped with a single song all of 2026. ate. left zero crumbs. swept the floor with the crumbs.
and she didn't stop at itunes — the mv shot to no. 1 on youtube's worldwide trending music list AND grabbed the top trending spot in both korea and the u.s. over in china she casually locked no. 1 on qq music, netease cloud, and kugou, then landed at no. 2 on melon's hot 100 for good measure.
her label OA Entertainment put it plainly, calling it "the highest number of regions topped by any K-pop solo song" released in 2026. bestie. the way they said that with their whole chest.
anyway solo jennie remains undefeated and the rest of us remain on the floor. we are so back.
Reported by Soompi. This article is Aegyo Arena's own write-up of that reporting.
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