{"id":142469,"date":"2025-05-19T13:18:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T20:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=142469"},"modified":"2025-05-19T13:18:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T20:18:54","slug":"exo-baekhyuns-new-album-sets-record-for-the-highest-1st-day-sales-by-a-k-pop-solo-artist-on-hanteo-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/exo-baekhyuns-new-album-sets-record-for-the-highest-1st-day-sales-by-a-k-pop-solo-artist-on-hanteo-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"EXO Baekhyun&#8217;s new album sets record for the highest 1st-day sales by a K-Pop solo artist on Hanteo in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>EXO<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Baekhyun<\/strong> has made a triumphant comeback with his latest musical project,<em> \u201cEssence of Reverie.\u201d<\/em> Despite debuting almost more than a decade ago, the idol is still at the top of the game in the Kpop scene despite the new releases of several idols from both the new and old school.<\/p>\n<p>On May 19,<strong> Hanteo Charts revealed their data to confirm that <em>\u201cEssence of Reverie\u201d<\/em> had sold approximately 784,000 copies during its first day of release<\/strong>. This new achievement becomes Baekhyun&#8217;s second-highest-selling album in first-day sales, behind his fourth mini-album, \u201cHello, World,\u201d which recorded around 890,000 units sold.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lg3r8-4yfDI&amp;ab_channel=INB100\" title=\"\ubc31\ud604 (BAEKHYUN) &#039;Elevator&#039; MV\" width=\"1240\" height=\"930\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lg3r8-4yfDI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no doubt that EXO\u2019s Baekyun will join the 1 million club in a matter of days with this amazing release. In addition,<strong> the album claims the title of the highest album first-day sales by a K-Pop soloist in 2025<\/strong>. There\u2019s nothing that the idol cannot achieve with ease.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cEssence of Reverie,\u201d<\/em> the fifth album by EXO\u2019s Baekhyun, features<em> &#8220;Chocolate,&#8221; &#8220;Elevator,&#8221; &#8220;Lemonade,&#8221; &#8220;Love Comes Back,&#8221; &#8220;No Problem,&#8221; &#8220;Black Dreams,&#8221;<\/em> and &#8220;Late Night Calls,\u201d as part of a <strong>cohesive musical project<\/strong> which was meant to be successful like no other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXO\u2019s Baekhyun has made a triumphant comeback with his latest musical project, \u201cEssence of Reverie.\u201d Despite debuting almost more than a decade ago, the idol is still at the top of the game in the Kpop scene despite the new releases of several idols from both the new and old school. On May 19, Hanteo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":142470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16,7],"tags":[939],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-142469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"category-news","10":"tag-exo"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142469"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=142469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}