Taeyang Earns Career-Best Sales Week With ‘QUINTESSENCE’
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- Hollywood & Entertainment Taeyang Earns Career-Best Sales Week With ‘QUINTESSENCE’By Jeff Benjamin,
- To date, Taeyang has now sold over 220,000 copies across all of his solo albums, according to Hanteo.
- Take a look at how QUINTESSENCE stacks up to Taeyang’s past first-week sales figures.
Hollywood & Entertainment Taeyang Earns Career-Best Sales Week With ‘QUINTESSENCE’By Jeff Benjamin,
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeff Benjamin is a New York-based writer covering global pop music.Follow Author May 25, 2026, 07:00pm EDTTaeyang of BIGBANG attends the listening session celebrating the release of his 4th full album ‘QUINTESSENCE’ at Cube Convention Center on May 18, 2026 in Seoul, South Korea. (Photo by i MBC/Imazins via Getty Images)Ima Zins via Getty ImagesNearly 20 years into his career, Taeyang is still finding new peaks.
The BIGBANG vocalist and solo star has earned the biggest sales week of his career with his latest album QUINTESSENCE, which moved 56,985 physical copies worldwide in its first week, according to South Korea’s real-time sales chart Hanteo — more than doubling any previous first-week total in his solo discography.