Articles started dropping the way storms arrived, not one by one, but in stacks, across time zones, across languages, across platforms that usually did not agree on anything.
Because this was not just a successful album anymore.
This was record behavior.
The kind that forced the industry to stop pretending it could predict anything.
In Korea, the conversation turned from excitement to disbelief the moment the compiled four week report hit the public. It was not just that Dayo sold well. It was that he rewrote benchmarks people treated like permanent.
Four week physical total for the album sat at 14.8 million copies globally.
Korea alone accounted for 7.9 million physical copies in four weeks.
The first week in Korea was the part that broke people's brains, because it did not creep up, it landed like a meteor and refused to cool. The numbers were not just the highest. They were the fastest.
And streams moved with the same disrespect.
