The Korea Music Content Association has just announced a new Circle Chart sales certification, recognizing outstanding achievements of many K-pop artists in the album category.
Most notably CORTIS with the EP "Greengreen". The standard version of the album was certified Double Million after surpassing 2 million copies sold. Meanwhile, the Weverse version also achieved Double Platinum certification thanks to sales exceeding 500,000 copies.
The new achievement continues to affirm CORTIS's appeal in the physical album market, after a series of positive results in both sales and achievements on digital music platforms in the past time.
In the Triple Platinum certification group (from 750,000 copies), aespa made a mark with the new album "Lemonade", while TWS received a similar certification for the mini album "Play hard" released in 2025.
Baby Monster also made a breakthrough when the mini album "Choom" received two certifications at the same time. The standard version achieved Double Platinum with over 500,000 copies, while the Nemo version was certified Platinum after surpassing 250,000 copies.
In addition, LE SSERAFIM with "Pureflow" pt. 1, ILLIT with "I'll Like You" and AND2BLE with "Sequence 01: Curiosity" were both certified Double Platinum, corresponding to sales exceeding 500,000 copies.
In the Platinum category (from 250,000 copies), many artists also participated including ITZY with "Motto", ZEROBASEONE with "Ascend-", NMIXX with "Heavy Serenade", Taeyong (NCT) with "WYLD", XLOV with "I, God", CRAVITY with "Redefine" and the Weverse version of "Supernatural" from NewJeans.
Circle Chart's certification system has been applied by the Korea Music Content Association since 2018 to products released from January 1, 2018. Accordingly, albums reaching 250,000 copies will be Platinum certified, and from 1 million copies will be awarded the Million certification, reflecting the consumption of music products in the Korean market.
