[BBANGYA NEWS｜Jisoo Lee] Gaon chart, the most renowned music sales chart in Korea announced albums and songs certified platinum on June 9. To be certified as platinum, an album must be sold over 250,000 copies and a song should reach 100 million streams or 2.5 million downloads.
As for album, NCT 127‘s repackage album ‘Neo Zone: The Final Round’, MONSTA X’ EP ‘FANTASIA X’ and IZ*ONE‘s ‘COLOR*IZ’ all certified platinum this week.
TXT earned their first platinum with ‘THE DREAM CHAPTER: ETERNITY’ released this May.
Baekhyun of EXO broke record with the second EP ‘Delight’ which was sold over 750,000 copies. By far, he is the only soloist to get triple platinum with an album.
6 songs made it to platinum this week as well. IU’s ‘Love Poem’, ZICO’s ‘Any Song’, Taeyeon’s ‘All About You’, Lim Hanbyul’s ‘The Way to Say Goodbye’ have all surpassed 100 million streams. Anne-Marie’s ‘2002’ was certified double platinum with over 200 million streams.
