List of best-selling albums in South Korea

This is the list of top ten best-selling albums in South Korea. All albums listed here have sold over 400,000 copies.

Best-selling albums

Rank	Year	Title	Artist	Claimed sales
1	1995	Mis-Encounter	Kim Gun-mo	3,300,000
2	1999	For Your Soul	Jo Sungmo	2,047,152[1]
3	2000	Let Me Love	Jo Sungmo	2,042,096[2]
4	1992	Seo Taiji & Boys	Seo Taiji & Boys	2,000,000
5	2000	Chapter 3:Lies	g.o.d	1,824,278[3]
6	2001	Chapter 4:Road	g.o.d	1,713,056[4]
7	2000	Classic	Jo Sungmo	1,599,111[5]
8	1996	We Hate All Kinds Of Violence	H.O.T.	1,500,000
9	1997	Wolf & Sheep	H.O.T.	1,500,000
10	2001	Another Days	Kim Gun-mo	1,397,388[6]
11	1999	I Yah!	H.O.T.	1,383,985[7]

Best-selling albums by female artists

Rank	Year	Title	Artist	Sales
1	1968	My Dear	The Pearl Sisters	1,000,000+[8]
2	1984	Couple's Party	Joo Hyun-Mi	1,000,000[9]
3	1999	Love	S.E.S.	760,475[10]
4	1998	Sea & Eugene & Shoo	S.E.S.	651,330[11]
5	1997	I'm Your Girl	S.E.S.	650,000[12]
6	2000	A Letter from Greenland	S.E.S.	626,565[13]
7	1993	Music Box	Mariah Carey	600,000+[14]
8	1999	White	Fin.K.L	593,816[15]
9	2002	No. 1	BoA	560,326[16]
10	1999	005.1999.06	Uhm Jung-hwa	552,373[17]
11	1999	Let's Go to My Star	Lee Jung Hyun	541,106[18]
12	1999	A Seagull of Dream	Kim Hyun-jung	501,423[19]
13	1997	After Love	Uhm Jung-hwa	500,000
14	1998	Legend	Kim Hyun-jung	482,639[20][21]
15	2011	The Boys	Girls' Generation	472,616[22]
16	1998	Invitation	Uhm Jung-hwa	468,910[23][24]
17	1993	Sorrowful Secret	Uhm Jung-hwa	460,000
18	2000	Sad Expectation	Uhm Jung-hwa	460,000
19	1999	Addio	Yangpa	429,560[15]
20	2010	Oh!	Girls' Generation	419,238[25]
21	1998	Best... My Songs	Uhm Jung-hwa	410,000
22	2000	Now	Fin.K.L	412,686[7]
23	2002	Choose My Life-U	S.E.S	406,528[26]

Male artists

Rank	Year	Title	Artist	Sales
1	1995	Mis-Encounter	Kim Gun-mo	3,300,000
2	1999	For Your Soul	Jo Sungmo	2,047,152[1]
3	2000	Let Me Love	Jo Sungmo	2,042,096[2]
4	2000	Chapter 3: Lies	g.o.d	1,824,278[3]
5	2001	Chapter 4: Road	g.o.d	1,713,056[4]
6	2000	Classic	Jo Sungmo	1,599,111[5]
7	1996	We Hate All Kinds of Violence	H.O.T.	1,500,000
8	1997	Wolf & Sheep	H.O.T.	1,500,000
9	1999	I Yah!	H.O.T.	1,383,985[27]
10	2001	Another Days	Kim Gun-mo	1,397,388[6]
11	2013	XOXO	EXO	1,235,967[28]
12	2015	EXODUS	EXO	1,214,805[29]
13	1998	Resurrection	H.O.T.	1,103,439[24]
14	1999	Over and Over	Steve Yoo	986,010[7][27]
15	2001	No More Love	Jo Sungmo	961,539[30]
16	2000	Outside Castle	H.O.T.	879,613[7]
17	1997	Born Again	Turbo	800,000[31]
18	1998	For Sale	Steve Yoo	796,412[32]
19	1998	A Grief	COOL	789,016[32]
20	1998	To Heaven	Jo Sungmo	775,126[24]
21	2014	Overdose (EP)	EXO	674,747+[33]
22	1999	Now or Never	Steve Seungjun Yoo	622,188[19]
23	2000	1	The Beatles	620,175[34][35]
24	2008	Mirotic	TVXQ	615,000[36][37][38]
25	2000	E-Mail My Heart	Turbo	595,401[7]
26	1999	Chapter 2:Love and Remember	g.o.d	578,567[39]
27	1998	Perfect Love	Turbo	562,478[23]
28	2006	"O"-Jung.Ban.Hap.	TVXQ	555,000[36][37][40]
29	2013	Miracles In December (EP)	EXO	547,346+[41]
30	2011	Mr. Simple	Super Junior	543,623[25]
31	2015	Sing For You (EP)	EXO	502,515[42]
32	2012	Sexy, Free & Single	Super Junior	495,616[25]
33	1999	Growing	Kim Gun-mo	480,736[27]
34	2012	MAMA (EP)	EXO	480,285[43]
35	2015	Made Series	BIGBANG	446,642[44][45]
36	1998	Love	Kim Min-jong	443,292[20][21]
37	1999	Destiny	Kim Min-jong	442,682[19]
38	2005	Saldaga	SG Wannabe	414,855[46]
39	2012	Alive (EP)	BIGBANG	414,518[25]
40	2014	Mamacita	Super Junior	413,869[47]
41	1998	Become a Star	Im Chang-jung	400,273[32]

Best-selling album by year

Units sold include sales of repackage albums.

Year	Album	Artist	Sales	Source
1998	Seo Taiji	Seo Taiji	1,133,736	[32]
1999	For Your Soul	Jo Sungmo	1,949,043	[27]
2000	Let Me Love	Jo Sungmo	1,968,967	[7]
2001	Open the	Various Artists	1,688,129	[30]
2002	Truth	Cool	647,052	[26]
2003	Hestory	Kim Gun-mo	529,416	[48]
2004	7th Issue	Seo Taiji	482,066	[49]
2005	Saldaga	SG Wannabe	414,855	[46]
2006	"O"-Jung.Ban.Hap.	TVXQ	349,317	[50]
2007	The Sentimental Chord	SG Wannabe	190,998	[51]
2008	Mirotic	TVXQ	502,837^[a]	[52]
2009	Sorry, Sorry	Super Junior	250,683+^[b]	[53]
2010	Oh!	Girls' Generation	334,785	[54]
2011	Mr. Simple	Super Junior	473,252	[55]
2012	Sexy, Free & Single	Super Junior	356,431	[56]
2013	XOXO	EXO	1,006,473	[57]
2014	Overdose	EXO	657,765	[47]
2015	EXODUS	EXO	1,211,237	[44]

See also

• List of best-selling singles in South Korea
• List of best-selling artists in South Korea

Notes

• ^ Sales figure also includes sales of the week ending January 6, 2009.
• ^ Sales figure only includes sales up to the sales week ending December 12, 2009.
• ^ EXO's album sales combines the Korean version and the Chinese version.
• ^ EXO's album Overdose is the first mini-album to become the best selling album of a particular year.

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