ATEEZ Impresses With First-Week Sales Without Excessive Versions Of Their Album

On May 31, ATEEZ released their newest album, GOLDEN HOUR : Part.1, with the title track “WORK”.

It’s been a week now that the album was released, and it’s already proving to be a huge hit for the K-Pop group, as could be expected! Just two years ago, ATEEZ made the rare feat of being a non-“Big Four” boy group to have an album surpass a million sales, and since then, they’ve only continued to become more successful. GOLDEN HOUR : Part.1 is now their fourth album to surpass that million sales mark, and unlike many groups who are constantly bringing in higher sales numbers with each release, they’re not releasing 10+ versions of each album to help inflate those numbers.

With the six versions of their latest album, ATEEZ made over 1.5 million first-week sales, and that number will only continue to go up in the coming days.

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They have a total of 6 versions (3 photobook versions, 1 digipack, 1 photocard album, and 1 platform version)

Sales in # of days:

First day: 757.6k

Second day: 787.8k

Third day: 814.1k

Fourth day: 998.6k

Fifth day: 1.13 million

Sixth day: 1.26 million

Seventh day: 1.51 million

While this is around 200k less than the first-week sales numbers for their last album, The World EP.Fin: WILL, there are several contributing factors that still make this achievement impressive. Firstly, their last album was a full-length studio album while this is an EP, which generally tend to sell fewer copies than full albums to begin with.

It also comes on the cusp of ATEEZ’s upcoming world tour, and many ATINYs have had to refrain from purchasing an album in order to save up for it. Along with the tour, they’ve also been releasing some popular merch lately — such as their ANITEEZ line of characters — so fans’ pockets have already been a little empty in the lead-up to this comeback! Many fans also attended Coachella to see their performance, which was not cheap by any means.

With all of that considered (or even without it, to be honest), 1.5 million units sold in the first week of release is nothing to scoff at. And here’s how people are reacting to this impressive news!