{"id":146079,"date":"2025-07-30T12:45:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=146079"},"modified":"2025-07-30T12:45:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:45:19","slug":"top-10-best-selling-cds-in-the-united-states-as-of-july-2025-with-stray-kids-seventeen-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/top-10-best-selling-cds-in-the-united-states-as-of-july-2025-with-stray-kids-seventeen-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10: Best-selling CDs in the United States as of July 2025, with Stray Kids, SEVENTEEN &#038; more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>K-pop acts like<strong> Stray Kids<\/strong> and <strong>SEVENTEEN<\/strong> aren\u2019t just climbing the charts; they\u2019re selling physical CDs like crazy. From January 3 to July 3, 2025, five K-pop acts landed in the top 10 best-selling CDs in the US, according to music tracker Luminate. These numbers include CD-only sales, not digital albums or streams. Stray Kids is the highest-ranking K-pop act on the tally, with 149k copies sold of their \u201c\u5408 (HOP)&#8221; mixtape. Then, ENHYPEN and ATEEZ appear in third and fourth spot, with 149k and 145k respectively. Meanwhile,\u00a0 The Weekend takes the top spot with 163k copies of his latest album &#8220;Hurry Up Tomorrow&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>SEVENTEEN appears at the seventh spot thanks to their EP &#8220;HAPPY BURSTDAY,&#8221; taking 79k copies. LE SSERAFIM is the only girl group present on the chart, with 73k copies of their mini-album &#8220;HOT.&#8221; The rest of the ranking is dominated by Western artists, including Sabrina Carpenter, Lady Gaga and Kendrick Lamar.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopViral_\/status\/1945864107686518913\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Best selling albums on CD in the first half of 2025 (US):<\/p>\n<p>#1 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheWeeknd?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#TheWeeknd<\/a> <br \/>#2 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StrayKids?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#StrayKids<\/a> <br \/>#3 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ENHYPEN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ENHYPEN<\/a> <br \/>#4 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ateez?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ateez<\/a> <br \/>#5 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SabrinaCarpenter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SabrinaCarpenter<\/a> <br \/>#6 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LadyGaga?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#LadyGaga<\/a> <br \/>#7 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SEVENTEEN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SEVENTEEN<\/a> <br \/>#8 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KendrickLamar?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#KendrickLamar<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ArqNUZtzdq\">pic.twitter.com\/ArqNUZtzdq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pop Viral (@PopViral_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopViral_\/status\/1945864107686518913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>#01. The Weeknd \u2013 \u201cHurry Up Tomorrow.\u201d (163,000).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>#02. Stray Kids \u2013 \u201c\u5408 (HOP).\u201d (149,000).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>#03. ENHYPEN \u2013 \u201cDESIRE : UNLEASH.\u201d (145,000).<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>#04. ATEEZ \u2013 \u201cGOLDEN HOUR : Part.3.\u201d (116,000).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>#05. Sabrina Carpenter \u2013 \u201cShort n\u2019 Sweet.\u201d (93,000).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>#06. Lady Gaga \u2013 \u201cMAYHEM.\u201d (83,000).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>#07. SEVENTEEN \u2013 \u201cHAPPY BURSTDAY.\u201d (79,000).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>#08. Kendrick Lamar \u2013 \u201cGNX.\u201d (75,000).<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>#09. LE SSERAFIM \u2013 \u201cHOT.\u201d (73,000).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>#10. Morgan Wallen \u2013 \u201cI\u2019m the Problem.\u201d\u00a0(71,000).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>K-pop acts like Stray Kids and SEVENTEEN aren\u2019t just climbing the charts; they\u2019re selling physical CDs like crazy. From January 3 to July 3, 2025, five K-pop acts landed in the top 10 best-selling CDs in the US, according to music tracker Luminate. These numbers include CD-only sales, not digital albums or streams. Stray Kids [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":146082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16,1402],"tags":[1064,1074],"class_list":{"0":"post-146079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"category-list","10":"tag-seventeen","11":"tag-stray-kids"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146079","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\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}