Maxident 2.24M preorder, 3rd highest preorder in Kpop history, ** still counting
[News Reporter Hwang Hye-jin] The group Stray Kids has surpassed 2.24 million pre-orders for a new album, heralding a double million seller (single album sales surpassing 2 million).
Stray Kids' new album 'MAXIDENT', which will be released on October 7th, has reached 2.24 million pre-orders as of the afternoon of the 28th.
With this, Stray Kids turned a green light on the birth of their first double million seller and lit up the K-pop trend. They became 'JYP Entertainment's first million-selling artists' with their 2nd full-length album 'NOEASY' last year, and won the title of '2nd consecutive million-selling' with their mini-album 'ODDINARY' released in March of this year. In particular, compared to the number of pre-orders of 'ODDINARY' exceeded 1.3 million two days before the official release, 'MAXIDENT' surpassed 2.24 million copies, an increase of more than 940,000 copies, even with more than a week left before release. K-pop fans around the world are curious about what kind of growth and achievements Stray Kids will achieve through this comeback, which has set sail for success early in the day, with ‘ODDINARY’, which ranked first on the US Billboard main chart ‘Billboard 200’ for the third time in the history of K-pop artists. attention is focused The new album name 'MAXIDENT' is a compound word of the English words 'Max' and 'Maximum' and 'Accident' and 'Incident', meaning a 'large incident' that happened without notice.
The title song 'CASE 143' (Case 143), made by 3 Racha, is a love song that Stray Kids presents for the first time as the title song, and has a different charm. The wit of expressing love with the code '143 (I LOVE YOU)' or likening the confused mind to an 'event' because of the first emotion you feel stands out. The speedy composition of the song on the synth line that flows along the chromatic scale is expected to catch the ears of domestic and foreign listeners.
Stray Kids' new mini-album 'MAXIDENT' and the title song 'CASE 143' of the group Stray Kids, which are growing rapidly by breaking their own best records, will be officially released on October 7th at 1pm (00:00 eastern time in the US).
Top 20 albums with the highest pre-orders
— KOREAN SALES (@koreansales_twt) September 28, 2022
3. #StrayKids MAXIDENT 🆕 pic.twitter.com/2Jc7QxK52R
Stray Kids Album Stock Pre-Orders
— Stray Kids Chart Data 💗 (@skzchartdata) September 29, 2022
GO LIFE — 200k
IN LIFE — 300k
NOEASY — 930k
ODDINARY — 1.3M
MAXIDENT — 2.24M 💗 *
* Still counting (until Oct 7th)@Stray_Kids #StrayKids #스트레이키즈 #MAXIDENT #CASE143 pic.twitter.com/mYQThJySZj
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