List of best-selling albums in South Korea

As of March 2021, Map of the Soul: 7 by South Korean boy band BTS is the best-selling album of all time in the country.

[3][needs update] Kim Gun-mo's 1995 studio album Wrongful Meeting previously held the record as the best-selling South Korean album for 24 years, with an estimated 3.3 million copies sold—this includes figures based on illegal sales[4]—until it was surpassed by BTS' Map of the Soul: Persona in 2019.

[10] Certifications are not included in this list, because the Gaon Music Chart publishes detailed album sales.

All albums that have sold over one million copies in South Korea are by Korean artists, with the exception of Whitney Houston's The Bodyguard (1992) and Mariah Carey's Music Box (1993).

As of 2023, according to Circle Chart,[A] BTS is the best-selling artist in South Korean history, having sold more than 40 million albums.

BTS is the best-selling artist in South Korean history. Their Map of the Soul: 7 album is the first to sell over 4 and 5 million copies.
Kim Gun-mo 's Wrongful Meeting was the best-selling album in South Korea for 24 years, with an estimated 3.3 million copies sold.
Shin Seung-hun was the best-selling artist in South Korea with 17 million cumulative album sales, until the record was broken by BTS in 2020. [ 1 ]
Seo Taiji is the first artist to have a million-seller album both as a soloist and as part of a group. [ 2 ]