{"id":174910,"date":"2026-09-02T11:52:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T18:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=174910"},"modified":"2026-09-02T11:52:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T18:52:59","slug":"tuide-records-the-highest-rookie-girl-group-first-week-sales-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/tuide-records-the-highest-rookie-girl-group-first-week-sales-of-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"TUIDE records the highest rookie girl group first-week sales of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TUIDE<\/strong> has recorded the highest first-week sales among female KPop groups that debuted in South Korea in 2026. According to Hanteo Chart, the HYBE breakthrough act sold 112,282 copies of their first mini-album, \u201cTUNE &amp; PLAY,\u201d during its first week. The EP was released on August 24, 2026, and the sales figures were announced on August 31.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/TUIDE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TUIDE<\/a> is now the best-selling rookie girl group of the year in their first week \ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>1.TUIDE \u2014 TUNE &amp; PLAY <br \/>112,282 copies <\/p>\n<p>2.OUR BIRTHDAY \u2014 Our Birthday 111,324 copies <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FClLariSZg\">pic.twitter.com\/FClLariSZg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; YNAA \u196b\u1b61 (@mzrrr_mk) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mzrrr_mk\/status\/2094112305977999515?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 30, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Despite leading this year\u2019s rookie female artists, TUIDE\u2019s debut sales remain considerably lower than the numbers achieved by previous girl groups formed by HYBE-affiliated labels. For example, LE SSERAFIM sold 307,450 copies of \u201cFEARLESS\u201d during its first week in May 2022, while NewJeans had 311,271 copies sold with their debut album, \u201cNew Jeans,\u201d in August 2022. ILLIT later surpassed both groups by selling 380,056 copies of \u201cSUPER REAL ME\u201d during their first week of tracking in March 2024.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: TUNE &amp; PLAY\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/6ctU4KzuUCZk9ZR8n0p6FN?si=s9PQyo3PQgimPBR00lstVw&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The competition between TUIDE and other rookie girl groups has also been close, potentially affecting their first-week sales. OURBIRTHDAY recorded 111,324 first-week sales with their debut single album, \u201cOUR BIRTH DAY,\u201d leaving a difference of only 958 copies between the two groups. Meanwhile, TUIDE also showed promising digital performance, with their debut song \u201cSUN KISS\u201d reaching #24 on Spotify\u2019s Daily Top Songs chart in South Korea on August 28 and #5 on Apple Music\u2019s Today\u2019s Top 100: Korea on August 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUIDE has recorded the highest first-week sales among female KPop groups that debuted in South Korea in 2026. According to Hanteo Chart, the HYBE breakthrough act sold 112,282 copies of their first mini-album, \u201cTUNE &amp; PLAY,\u201d during its first week. The EP was released on August 24, 2026, and the sales figures were announced on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":174929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16,7],"tags":[4170],"class_list":["post-174910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-kpop","category-news","tag-tuide"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174910","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=174910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174932,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174910\/revisions\/174932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}