Im Young-woong released his Regular 1st album "Im hero" on the 2nd. The album was ranked # 1 with sales of 1.1 million 2012 in the weekly charts of May 1, 2022, released by the album sales site Hanter Chart on the 9th.
Im Young-woong sold more than 940,000 copies in a day of the first album (a week of album release) and sold a whopping 1.1 million copies.
Million Selling of Im Young-woong was foreseen early on. According to the album distributor, DreamFord Motor Company, 'I'm hero', which started to be sold on April 1, exceeded a total of 1 million copies as of the date of release.
In particular, DreamFord Motor Company said, "On the first day of booking sales, a lot of fans wanted to buy an album, and the server of the sales page was crowded." I guessed what the passion of fans who wanted to own Im Young-woong's album was.
Im Young-woong is the fourth in Korea to exceed 1 million copies in the first place, following the group BTS, Seventeen, and NCT Dream. Solo Singer was the first and the first trot Singer to become the 'Million Seller'.
Singer, who has exceeded one million albums since the 2000s, is the third to be named. Baek Hyun, who is an exo member and Solo member in 2020 after Kim Gun-mo's 7th album in 2001, has become a Solo Million Seller in 19 years after exceeding 1 million copies with his mini album 'Delight'. Last year, 'Bambi' also sold more than 1 million copies and became a Million Seller for two consecutive years. I've added a new record that I've never had.
Regarding this achievement of Im Young-woong, Hanterchart said, "There are not many artists who have achieved Million Sellers in the initial sales volume. It is a great achievement to achieve Million Seller as Solo Singer. "
Hanter Chart praised the Im Young-wong record in that it expanded the Korean music market, which had been focused on 'Idol', to the genre of 'Trot'.
"The appearance of Im Young-woong has greatly expanded the consumer Spectrum of the Korean music market, which was the main consumer group in the 10s and 20s, to the middle-aged and elderly," Hanter Chart said. "It is overwhelming to say that the growth of the trot market and the expansion of the music consumer Spectrum have led to overwhelming efforts."
Hot fandom is also revealed in Concert, where tickets are sold out at the same time as tickets are opened. Im Young-woong has been conducting '2022 Im Young-woong National Tour Concert' Im hero (IM hero) since the 6th. Im Young-wong, who has performed his first performance with 23,000 fans in Goyang for three days, will continue to tour with Changwon Concert on the 20th ~ 22nd and will meet fans in Gwangju and Festival.