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Seventeen’s ‘Happy Burstday’ Secures 14th Oricon No. 1 with Record Sales

Released to mark their tenth debut anniversary, the album became the best-selling K-pop release of 2025 with more than 2.5 million first-week sales.

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Overview

  • Happy Burstday topped Oricon’s Weekly Album Ranking with 457,000 copies sold in Japan—the highest figure by a foreign act this year.
  • Global first-week sales reached 2,521,208 physical units from May 26 to June 1, making it the biggest K-pop release of 2025.
  • The achievement extends Seventeen’s record as the first foreign artist to claim the Oricon albums chart 14 times.
  • The 16-track album includes solo songs from all 13 members alongside collaborations with Pharrell Williams, Timbaland, Bumzu and Shannon Bae.
  • The release coincided with a three-day tenth-anniversary celebration in Seoul, highlighted by a performance on the Jamsu Bridge.