28 February 2024
Newsdesk
IFPI, the organisation that represents the recorded music industry worldwide, has announced SEVENTEEN’s FML as the winner of the IFPI Global Album Award for 2023.
The IFPI Global Album Award is calculated according to an album’s worldwide sales across streaming, download and physical music formats during the calendar year. The award is presented to the artist whose album finishes at #1 in the IFPI Global Album Chart, which was also released today.
K-Pop group SEVENTEEN have topped the 2023 Chart, with FML winning the group their first ever IFPI Global Charts Award. The album, released in April 2023, was the most pre-ordered in K-Pop history and debuted at #1 in South Korea as well as reaching #1 in Japan and charting in the Top 5 in France and the US. The group also saw their follow up album SEVENTEENTH HEAVEN, released in October, reach #8 in the IFPI Global Album Chart.
South Korean acts accounted for five of the Top 10 albums in the IFPI Global Album Chart, representing the best ever Global Charts performance for K-Pop. Stray Kids also saw two albums reach the Top 10, with 5-STAR (#2) and ROCK-STAR (#9). NCT DREAM made their first appearance in an IFPI Global Charts with ISTJ entering at #6 and there were also debut appearances for K-Pop acts ZEROBASEONE and IVE, at #18 and #20. Following huge global success with BTS, Jung Kook made his first solo appearance on the IFPI Global Album Chart with his album GOLDEN reaching #14.
IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year, Taylor Swift, also celebrated two albums in the Top 10, with Midnights (#4) spending a second consecutive year in the Top five and 1989 (Taylor’s Version) reaching #5 following its release in October 2023.
North American acts took the remainder of places in the Top 10, and overall took five spots in the full Top 20. Morgan Wallen’s One Thing At A Time charted at #3, while SZA (#7, SOS) and Travis Scott (#10, UTOPIA) both made their first appearances in the IFPI Global Album Chart.
