BTS V’s first solo album “Layover” became a million seller on the day of release.
According to Hanteo Chart on Sep 8th, V‘s “Layover” physical album, which was released at 1 PM on the same day, sold about 1.02 million copies of the regular version and 310,000 copies of the Weverse version as of 5:07 PM on the same day, leading to the cumulative sales of 1.33 million copies.
V became the third K-pop solo singer to sell more than 1 million copies on the day of release. So far, all solo artists who sold more than 1 million copies on the day of release are BTS members. Agust D’s “D-Day” sold 1,072,311 copies on the day of release, and Jimin’s “FACE” sold 1,021,532 copies on the day of release. V’s sales up to now have set the record for the highest first-day solo album sales.
Accordingly, V’s “Layover” is expected to top the US Billboard’s main album chart “Billboard 200”. The strongest competitor that hinders V from occupying the top spot of “Billboard 200” is pop star Olivia Rodrigo, who is known as an icon of America’s Generation Z. Rodrigo released her second full-length album “GUTS” on the same day.
V and Rodrigo made headlines due to their connection at the 64th Grammy Awards. While V was singing “Butter” at the awards ceremony with BTS members, he approached Rodrigo in the audience seat and whispered. BBC also selected this scene as one of the “Grammy Awards 2022: Five stand-out moments”.
Besides, V became the fifth BTS member to surpass 1 million copies in cumulative sales after Jin’s “The Astronaut”, Jimin’s “FACE”, Suga’s “D-Day” and J-Hope’s “Jack in the Box”. BTS is the first K-pop group to have 5 members release million-selling works as solo artists.
“Layover” includes a total of 6 tracks: the title song “Slow Dancing”, “Rainy Days”, “Love Me Again”, “Blue”, “For Us” and the bonus track “Slow Dancing (Piano Ver.)”.
Source: Newsis
