South Korean boy group, NCT Dream established themselves as the first SM Entertainment act to break a record on Hanteo. Through the ISTJ album, they managed to sell more than 2 million copies of physical albums in the first week of sales.
Hanteo reported, since the release of the ISTJ album on July 17, 2023 until three days later, the album has successfully sold 2,194,117 copies. This makes NCT Dream the first SM Entertainment group to succeed in selling 2 million album copies in the first week alone.
NCT Dream also broke their own record on Hanteo for their album Candy which was released last December. Previously this album sold 1,591,021 copies in its first week of sales. Throughout the history of Hanteo, there are only 5 groups that can sell 2 million physical albums in the first week of sales. NCT Dream is the fifth group on this list.
Previously there were BTS, SEVENTEEN, Stray Kids, and TXT which were already on the list. This isn't the first record NCT Dream has gotten for an ISTJ album. Previously, the pre-order record for this album also reached an unusually high number in K-Pop history, reaching 4.2 million stock orders.
ISTJ is the album with the third most stock of pre-orders. The ISTJ album contains 10 songs. Among them are ISTJ, Broken Melodies, Yoghurt Shake, Skateboard, Blue Wave, Poison, SOS, Pretzel(♡), Starry Night, and Like We Just Met. ISTJ's flagship song is a hybrid hip-hop dance genre song.
The lyrics of this song break with the standard MBTI (personality type test) framework and add fun to the story of the confident ENFP who has her own way of interpreting an ISTJ. Thus wrote SM Entertainment in their official release. ISTJ songs were composed by Adrian Thesen, Anne Judith Wik, Bobii Lewis, Kenzie and Ronny Svendsen.
Kenzie is a composer who has worked with SM Entertainment for a long time and has created many hits including SNSD's Into the New World and Forever1. While the other names are teams from Design Music which also have a long history with SM Entertainment.
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