{"id":142781,"date":"2025-05-25T10:33:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T17:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=142781"},"modified":"2025-05-25T14:22:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T21:22:26","slug":"exos-baekhyun-becomes-the-fastest-selling-kpop-soloist-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/exos-baekhyun-becomes-the-fastest-selling-kpop-soloist-of-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"EXO\u2019s Baekhyun becomes the fastest-selling Kpop soloist of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>EXO<\/strong>\u2019s<strong> Baekhyun<\/strong> has had such an amazing run with his fifth mini-album, <em>\u201cEssence of Reverie\u201d<\/em> worldwide. The idol has offered a fresh sound with such an interesting perspective on Kpop music, which ultimately brought a masterpiece to the audience, and the fans love it.<\/p>\n<p>It was previously announced that <em>\u201cEssence of Reverie\u201d<\/em> took only three days to surpass the 1 million copies sold in South Korea according to the Hanteo Chart.<strong> This amazing achievement was enough for the idol to set the highest first-week sales record for a solo artist in 2025<\/strong>.<\/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>The success behind the album is completely attributed to EXO\u2019s Baekhyun\u2019s <strong>hard work<\/strong> while he released pre-release tracks, concept photos and videos, and otherworldly performances from the title track, \u201cElevator.\u201d The idol has even launched various offline events. In Seoul, a concept-themed pop-up store opened at The Hyundai Seoul from May 22 to 28, offering exclusive merchandise and exhibits tied to the album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXO\u2019s Baekhyun has had such an amazing run with his fifth mini-album, \u201cEssence of Reverie\u201d worldwide. The idol has offered a fresh sound with such an interesting perspective on Kpop music, which ultimately brought a masterpiece to the audience, and the fans love it. It was previously announced that \u201cEssence of Reverie\u201d took only three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":142794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16,7],"tags":[939,1010],"class_list":{"0":"post-142781","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","11":"tag-hyunjin"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142781","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=142781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}