Kyungsoo’s webdrama “Be Positive” broke the record for fastest webdrama to reach 30 million views.
Yixing broke the record with ‘Lose Control’ as best selling album for a solo artist in Korea.
EXO sold 2.13 million album copies in 2016
EXO’s “For Life” surpassed “Sing For You” in album sales.
EXO was featured in an Italian magazine and is featured on the Italian Vogue’s website.
“For Life” took an award home from Mubank despite it having zero promotions and lower digital scores than other artists!
EXO finishes strong on the Xiami Music Year-End Charts
Top 50 Most Popular Albums of 2016 [JPN/KOR]
Top 100 Most Popular Songs of 2016 [JPN/KOR]
#2 - EXO & Yu Jae Suk ‘Dancing King’
Top 100 Most Popular Singles of 2016 [CHN]
EXO places #14 on world’s best selling album list, 12 ranks higher than the year before!
BEST SELLING ALBUMS OF 2016
1. “25” Adele - 4,411,000 (19,381,000)
2. “Lemonade” Beyonce - 2,620,000
3. “Views” Drake - 2,577,000
4. “Purpose” Justin Bieber - 2,252,000 (5,213,000)
5. “A Head Full Of Dreams” Coldplay - 2,025,000 (3,838,000)
6. “Blackstar” David Bowie - 1,944,000
7. “Blurryface” Twenty One Pilots - 1,569,000 (2,169,000)
8. “Anti” Rihanna - 1,421,000
9. “This Is Acting” Sia - 1,233,000
10. “The Getaway” Red Hot Chilli Peppers - 1,183,000
11. “A Moon Shaped Pool” Radiohead - 1,106,000
12. “Traveller” Chris Stapleton - 1,113,000 (1,834,000)
13. “The Very Best of Prince” Prince - 1,091,000 (4,591,000+)
14. “Ex'act” Exo - 1,080,000
15. “Hardwired… To Self” Metallica - 1,040,000
16. “Dangerous Woman” Ariana Grande - 985,000
17. “X” Ed Sheeran - 924,000 (8,650,000)
18. “Suicide Squad” OST - 796,000
19. “Hamilton: The Musical” Soundtrack - 796,000 (1,056,000)
20. “Beauty Behind the Madness” The Weeknd - 786,000 (2,327,000)
EXO-CBX’s “Hey Mama!” has the highest album sales for a sub-unit.
EXO’s the first Korean boy group to feature on Japan’s ViVi magazine.
Chanyeol’s OST “Stay With Me” (X Punch) was #3 on Billboard’s Worldwide Digital Songs chart.
EXO were the #1 Top Trending Artist of Twitter for 2016.
EX’ACT breaks record for most album points in Music Bank history with a total of 8,875 points!
Yixing became the fastest Chinese artist to reach 1 million views on YouTube.
Yixing became the first Chinese artist to enter the US iTunes chart with “What U Need”.
Yixing’s webdrama Old Nine Gates sets record with a total of 10 billion views.
Jongin’s webdrama Choco Bank became the most watched drama of 2016.
Yixing’s “Lose Control” became Hanteo’s both highest solo selling album and highest solo album sales for the first week.
EXO’s the only Korean artist to hold in the Philippines for 2 consecutive days.
EXO won Album of The Year four times in a row at the Mama Awards.
EXO are the first international group to sell over 100k in the first week in Japan with “Coming Over” (140k album copies sold)
Kyungsoo’s movie “Hyung” reached 2.8 million views and was #1 in the box office!