Seoul: Boy band Stray Kids set a record with its latest release, "Karma," which posted the highest first-week sales of any K-pop album this year, the group's agency said Friday. JYP Entertainment said the group's fourth full-length album, released on Monday, sold 3.03 million copies in its first week, citing data from Hanteo Chart, a local tracker of K-pop album sales.
According to Yonhap News Agency, it was the only K-pop album this year to surpass 3 million sales in the first week. On the global music streaming platform Spotify, the album also logged the highest number of first-week streams among K-pop albums released in 2025.
The record is expected to debut strongly on Britain's Official Albums Chart Top 100 this week. "It could be a historic moment for the band, who have never cracked the Top 10, with 'Karma' set to be their best-performing project to date," the Official Charts Company said in a preview on Tuesday (local time).