ATEEZ Is The Only Non-"Big Four" K-Pop Artist To Be In The Top 14 Best-Selling Artists Ever On Hanteo

On October 24, ATEEZ celebrated their fourth debut anniversary!

[📷] TODAY ATEEZ
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함께이기에 특별한 10월 24일🥰
올해도 사랑하는 멤버들과 에이티니가 있어 행복한 4주년❗
앞으로도 쭉 10월 24일을 함께 맞이해요❤
⠀#4_years_with_ATEEZ #TODAY_ATEEZ #ATEEZ #에이티즈 pic.twitter.com/AFrkMrLL9K

— ATEEZ(에이티즈) (@ATEEZofficial) October 24, 2022

The fourth-generation idols debuted on October 24, 2018, under KQ Entertainment with the title track “Pirate King” off of their first album, TREASURE EP.1: All to Zero.

In its first day, the album made a total of 430 sales. In its first week, a little over 5,200 sales. KQ Entertainment was a small and relatively unknown company at the time that ATEEZ debuted, and it was the group’s music, intrigue, and loveable members that caught people’s attention despite their humble beginnings.

Their album sales gradually increased throughout the TREASURE era, with the last one in the series, TREASURE Epilogue: Action to Answer, making 62,800 sales in its first week in early 2020. While still not as high as other fourth generation artists at the time, they were the only group from such a small label to be making such an impact on the industry.

And now, leaping forward to present day, album restocks have led to their first album now surpassing 108,000 sales despite being released four years ago. Along with that, their most recent album, The World EP.1: Movement, made over 930,000 sales in the first week, and also became their first to surpass one million sales after it came out this past July.

That means in just two and a half years, since the release of TREASURE Epilogue: Action to Answer, their first-week sales numbers have gone up by nearly 15x, an astronomical leap for any K-Pop artist!

Along with this hugely impressive sales growth, ATEEZ is also the only K-Pop artist not from a “Big Four” label — SM Entertainment, JYP Entertainment, YG Entertainment, and HYBE Labels — to be in the top 14 best-selling artists ever on Hanteo.