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

Kim Gun-mo's 1995 album, Wrongful Encounter, is considered the best-selling album of all time in South Korea, having sold more than 3.3 million copies.[1][2] While numerous albums sold more than 1 million copies in South Korea in the 1990s, domestic music sales declined sharply in the 21st century.[3] In 2013, boy group Exo's album, XOXO, became the first album released since 2001 to sell more than 1 million copies.[4] In 2018, boy band BTS's album, Love Yourself: Answer, became the first album to sell more than 2 million copies since 2000.[5]

Legend [ edit ]

Colors Standard album Standard and reissue albums Compilation album Original soundtrack

2 million or more copies [ edit ]

1 million–1.9 million copies [ edit ]

800,000–999,999 copies [ edit ]

600,000–799,999 copies [ edit ]

400,000–599,999 copies [ edit ]

Best-selling album by year [ edit ]

Sales of standard release and reissue albums in a year. This list does not include sales of the same album in other years apart from the specified calendar year. For a list of total sales, see sections above.

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