EXO’S RECORDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS (6 YEARS WITH EXO)
Here are some of EXO’s archievements and records in this 6 years, obviously there are a lot missing (they have too many awards lmao) so i put here the most important, feel free to add others
2012
“MAMA” first EXO album depassed 100,000 copies in 1 month
The korean version of the album reached n°1 on Gaon album chart and n°8 on Billboard world albums chart
“MAMA” MV korean ver. reached n°7 on Youtube’s global chart
EXO-K wins “Best new artist” at the 2012 MAMA awards and EXO-M received the “Most popular group” award at the 2013 Top Chinese music awards
The highest k-pop debut album sales: EXO-M (188,624) EXO-K (295,680)/ Overall (484,304)
Total awards = 9 awards
2013
“XOXO” reached n°1 on Billboard world albums chart a week after its release
The album make EXO the first million seller after 12 years
Record for being the fastest selling k-pop act
“Growl” reached n°1 on all 4 Korea’s major music programs. The song placed n°3 on Billboard Korea k-pop hot 100 and n°2 on Gaon singles chart and charted for 49 weeks on Melon making it one of the longest charting songs
They broke the first week album sales record by selling more than 112,435 copies
“XOXO” was the best selling album in Korea for 2013
They borke the Weekly idol rating with an average viewership rating of 1.175% (July 10, 2013)
EXO won Album of the year at MAMA 2013 making them the youngest ever Boy group to win this award
Music show wins = 26
Awards = 20 awards + 3 daesang
2014
“Overdose” broke the record for most pre-ordered album in k-pop history with 660,000 pre-orders
Korean version of Overdose peaked at n°2 on Billboard world albums chart
First mini album to top yearly chart awards and to win Album of the year at the MAMA awards
EXO became thee highest charting k-pop male group on the Billboard 200 peaking at 129
“Overdose” was the best selling album in Korea for 2014
“Exoplanet 1 - The lost planet” broke the record for the fastest sold out concert for a korean act by selling out in 1.47 seconds
The best selling k-pop artist in Japan for 2014
Music show wins = 11
Awards = 31 awards + 5 daesang
2015
“Call me baby” was the most watched k-pop mv in the first half of 2015
The song wins 18 music show awards becoming the second most awarded song in history and the most awarded song of 2015
“Exodus” became the longest charting n°1 album on the Album chart (4 weeks)
Broke the US Billboard 200 record as the highest ranking Korean artist at n° 90
“Double million seller” with “Exodus” selling 1 million copies
Record for the all time best selling debut single in Japan
“Love me right” charts for 42 weeks on Melon and “Call me baby” for 45 weeks, becoming one of the longest charting idol group songs
“Sing for you” the album broke the first week sales record by selling 267,900 copies in the first week
Named the most powerful celebrity by Forbes Korea for 2014
Record for the shortest amount of time since debut to hold a concert at the Tokyo Dome
The first artist to hold a Korean Dome concert (Gocheok Dome)
“EXO next door” became the most watched web drama of 2015 and the OST “Beautiful” becomes first web drama OST to top digital charts
Reocord for the most amount of fans attempting to buy a concert ticket (1.2 million) (EXO’luxion)
The concert made a world record by selling out all 5 days (67,040 tickets) in 0.4 seconds
Music show wins = 32
Awards = 19 awards + 4 daesang
2016
The pre-orders for “Ex’Act” surpassed 660,000 copies broking EXO’s “Overdose” record for most pre-sold album
It was the first Korean Album to sell over 100,000 copies in one day
It broke the first weeksales record by selling over 500,000 copies in one week (522,372)
“Monster” hit n°1 on Billboard world digital songs chart, and Lucky one n°3
“Monster” becomes the highest scoring song on M! Countdown for 2016 and the 4th highest song of all time and charted on Melon for 145 consecutive hours and 139 on Genie
“Ex’Act” breaks record for most album points in Music Bank history with a total of 8785 points and reached n° 1 on World albums chart
“Lotto” hit n°1 on Billboard world digital songs chart and n°2 on Gaon digital chart
“Lotto” the repack album Korean ver. reached n°1 on Gaon album chart and the Chinese ver. n°2
“Dancing King” hit n°2 on Gaon’s digital chart and n°1 on Gaon’s download chart and ranked n°3 on Billboard world digital songs chart
“For life” ranks 3 in first week Album sales of all time with 316,000 copies
“Triple million sellers” with “Ex’Act” becoming their 3rd album to sell 1 million copies after 2 months of release
First Group to win all 3 Daesang at Melon music awards
Record of over 2.13 million album sold in 2016
First international group to sell over 100,000 copies in the 1st week in Japan with Coming over (140,000)
1st boy group and 1st asian group to appear on “L’UOMO VOGUE” cover
First k-pop group to have the longest solo concert series in Seoul (6 days at the Olympic Gymnastics Arena)
Most powerful celebrity of 2015 by Forbes Korea for the 2nd year in a row
Music show wins = 18
Awards = 22 awards + 5 daesang
2017
“The War” breaks “Ex’Act” pre-ordered record with over 800,000 pre-orders in under a week
It becomes the fastest album to hit 1M+ copies sold without repackage, in just 24 days and breaks records by topping 155 Itunes charts
“Ko ko bop” charts n°1 on Melon for 5 days straight. Archived All-kill on Melon within 24 hours of releasing “The War”
The album breaks Hanteo 1st day sales record by selling over 220,000 in 5 hours and making EXO the first group to sell over 200,000 copies on the first day (227,231)
The highest ranking K-pop group on UK Itunes albums chart by peaking at n°2
First group to debut n°1 on Melon after the system change
“The War” is the 1st k-pop album to rank 1 in over 30 different countries at the same time and the fastest k-pop album to reach the USA Itunes album chart top 5 ranking
First artist to reach 400,000 followers on Melon (now they are over 500,000)
The first group to sell over 600,000 copies in 1 week with “The War” (602,094)
EXO holds their encore concert EXO’rDIUM in Jamsil Olympic Stadium (max 72,000 people), becoming the youngest k-pop act to ever perform there
The concert sold out for both days within half an hour, becoming the 3rd artist to ever done this after H.O.T (1999/2000) and G.o.d (2014)
The ElyXion 1st 3 days sold out in 0.2 seconds (66,000 tickets), beating EXO’s own previous record of 0.4 seconds of EXO’luxion
First artist to perform on 3 consecutive days in “Gocheok Sky Dome” recording the highest attendance since its opening
The “Guinness World Records” for winning the most Daesangs at the Mnet Asia Music Awards
“Quadruple million seller” with “The War”
Music show wins = 16
Awards = 19 awards + 6 daesang
2018
“Power” is the 1st k-pop song to be played at “The Dubai Fountain”, world’s largest choreographed fountain
The japanese album “Countdown” debuted at n°1 on the Weekly Oricon chart, sold over 100,000 copies and receiveda gold certification
EXO is the first foreign group whose debut single and complete album both reached first place, 10 days after its release
EXO and Cl performed at the closing cermony of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang on February, 25 as representatives of k-pop
EXO won “Best Blockbuster” for “W Korea 13th Anniversary Award”, recorded highest sales in Fashion Magazine History
The 9 covers are the Magazine’s top 10 best seller of all time with EXO landing from 1st to its 9th place
The “Korean Mint Corporation” announced that they will create an official commemorative medal for EXO (be released in April). The medal will honor them as representatives of k-pop who have been in the centre of the Korean wave as the Top Idol Group
Music show wins = 3 (still counting)
Awards = 9 awards + 1 Daesang (still counting)
OTHER RECORDS
Highest music show wins for a group (excluding subunits and solos) = 106 wins
Most award wins for a group with a total of 156 awards
Most Daesang awards for a group: 24 Daesang
Win Album of the year (Daesang) at MAMA 5 years in a row (2013-2017)
Win Golden Disk Awards Daesang 4 years in a row (2014-2017)
Win Seoul Music Awards Daesang 4 years in a row (2014-2017)
Best selling album 5 years in a row (2013-2017)
K-pop group with most endorsenments
Only artist to debut at n°1 on Gaon weekly album chart for 10 consecutive album release
Best selling artist in Korea for 4 years in a row (2013-2016)
EXO is officially the highest selling k-pop boy group in Korean history in terms of album sales, beating the records set by legendary Artists Seo Taiji and Boys, H.O.T and TVXQ
EXO-L official global fanclub counts 4,346,107 stars (followers) and still counting
EXO + EXO-L = ONE
WE ARE ONE
I just wrote down what there was in a video made by an Exo-l, here is the link, please support her
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NmFDyXnTVQ
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