EXO’s long-awaited group album is back with a bang.
EXO made their highly anticipated comeback with their seventh full-length album EXIST, their first group comeback in two years. Within hours of its release, EXIST became EXO’s first album to surpass 1 million sales in the first week, and achieved the feat in just one day. According to Huntio Charts, “EXIST” sold a total of 1,074,914 copies on its first day of sales – breaking not only EXO’s previous first day sales record of 647,010, but also their previous first week sales record of 902,210 (both sets). broke. In Just One Day by his 2021 special album Don’t Fight the Feeling.
Not only is EXIST already EXO’s first album to surpass 1 million sales in the first week, but it also made EXO the male artist with the seventh highest first day sales in the history of hunteyo (Seventeen, BTS, Stray Kids, After ZeroBasone, and EnHypen).
With still six days left in the sale, it remains to be seen how high EXIST will climb in the week ahead.
Meanwhile, EXO members DO joined the social media platform Instagram. He kept it simple for his Instagram account and chose a monochrome photo of himself as his display picture. In the bio, he introduced himself with his full name, Do Kyung Soo. For his first Instagram post, he posted a photo of EXO’s album title track, Cream Soda, and added a photo of himself, which appears to have been taken during a live stream.
Dio now has over 1 million followers on Instagram. Fans on Twitter are in a frenzy as the social media platform reacts to the news of the DO. One fan tweeted, “Best way to start the week.” “The miracle of the year,” added another. Someone even said, “watch him forget the app exists after the promo is over.”
EXO consists of nine members: Xiumin, Suho, Lay, Baekhyun, Chen, Chanyeol, D.O, Kai, and Sehun. The K-pop group was formed in 2011 by their agency, SM Entertainment. He debuted in 2012.