Highest first day sales of albums by kpop girl groups in 2026 so far:
1. Blackpink, “DEADLINE” — 1.46M
2. #aespa, “LEMONADE” — 842K 🥈🔥
3. LE SSERAFIM, “PUREFLOW PT.1” — 435K
4. Hearts2Hearts, “Lemon Tang” — 389K (🆕)
.@aespa_official’s “LEMONADE - The 2nd Album” has now surpassed 100 MILLION points on Circle Weekly Digital Chart.
It becomes their 10th album to reach this milestone.
Highest-Charting songs by 4th gen groups on Circle Digital Chart this week:
#1 LEMONADE (#3) 💕
#2 Heavy Serenade (#12)
#3 WDA (#15) 💕
#4 BANG BANG (#16)
#5 Whiplash (#26 +1)🔺💕
#6 BOOMPALA (#27 -8)🔻
#7 Blue Valentine (#28 -3)🔻
*(# Overall Rank)
• Nike Global Ambassador
• MLB Global Ambassador
• Converse Global Ambassador
Three brands competing in the same segment, yet they all chose Karina. She’s really “THAT” girl.
.@aespa_official’s “LEMONADE” (2 weeks) surpasses IVE’s “BANG BANG” (1 week) and becomes the 4th-gen artist song with the most weeks doing over 16,000,000 points on Circle Digital Chart this year.
Fastest songs by SM Artists to reach 40M streams on Spotify:
#1. Whiplash — 17 days
#1. Supernova — 17 days
#2. Armageddon — 21 days
#3. LEMONADE — 25 days 🆕🎉
#4. DRAMA — 30 days
aespa will release their 1st Japan Mini Album “KISS N TELL” in exactly one month.
WINTER has previously spoiled that “KISS N TELL” is really cute. She also mentioned that choreography is also the most high-energy, bouncy, and jump-heavy routine they’ve ever done.
The album will feature six song including the title track of the same name, “ATTITUDE”, and “In Halo”. “KISS N TELL” will be released on July 24th.