Best Selling K-pop Soloist Album In 2024 (Record By Jimin)

The Official Award Of A Certificate

BTS’s Jimin etched his name into K-pop history when his second solo album, MUSE, emerged as the best-selling K-pop solo album worldwide in 2024, a record certified by the K-Pop Records Library on March 27, 2025. Released on July 19, 2024, under Big Hit Music, the seven-track masterpiece sold over 2.7 million copies globally, per Circle Chart and Hanteo, outpacing heavyweights like IU’s The Winning and J-Hope’s HOPE ON THE STREET VOL.1. This triumph, achieved amidst Jimin’s military service, showcased his unmatched global influence and the relentless dedication of ARMY, cementing his status as a solo powerhouse.

Feat:

Jimin, born Park Ji-min, dropped MUSE at 1 PM KST on July 19, 2024, following his 2023 debut FACE, which sold 1.65 million copies. The album, led by the sultry “Who,” debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 141,000 equivalent album units, including 114,000 traditional sales, per Billboard. On South Korea’s Circle Album Chart, it sold 771,000 copies in its first week, per Pinkvilla, and racked up 1.1 million Hanteo sales by August, per X posts. By year’s end, MUSE’s global total hit 2.7 million, surpassing IU’s The Winning (1.5 million), EXO’s Baekhyun’s Hello, World (1.24 million), and J-Hope’s HOPE ON THE STREET VOL.1 (447,009), per Circle Chart. It also clinched the title of the best-selling K-pop male soloist album in the US.