2022 ACHIEVEMENTS
Seventeen was the 2nd highest-earning celebrity in Korea in the first part of 2022. They earned around 62 billion won.Seventeen ranked #9 on the IFPI Global Artist Chart.What is IFPI Charts? "The IFPI Global Recording Artist Chart measures consumption across all formats (including streaming formats, digital and physical albums, and single sales) and all countries in a calendar year. It is weighted based on the relative value of each method of consumption."Attacca ranked at #3 and Your Choice at #8 on the IFPI Album Sales Chart. They are among the only 3 acts to chart multiple albums in a single year on the IFPI chart in history.Seventeen won Album Division Bonsang and Cosmopolitan Artist Award at the 36th Golden Disc Awards.Seventeen won Best 3 Albums [Asia] with Attacca at Japan Golden Disc Awards.Seventeen won Top 10 Artist at the MelOn Music Awards.Face the Sun surpassed 2M pre-orders which was the 5th highest for any Korean artist.Seventeen sold 3 million copies of their album ‘Face the Sun’, the 2nd artist to pull numbers like that.As of January 2024, Face the Sun is the BEST SELLING KPOP ALBUM of 2022 with over 4 MILLION sales.Seventeen's Face the Sun album debuted at #7 on the US Billboard 200 charts and Sector 17 debuted at #4.Both albums debuted at #1 on US World Albums, Japan HOT albums, Gaon, and Oricon (weekly charts).Face the Sun debuted at #1 on the monthly Gaon charts and #2 on Oricon, while Sector 17 debuted at #3 on both charts.Their English single 'Darl+ing' debuted at #197 on the Spotify Global charts, becoming their first song to enter the chart.Seventeen was nominated at the VMAs and EMAs in 3 different categories: Best New Artist, Push Performance of the Year and Best Kpop.Seventeen became the first Korean act to win VMAs Push Performance of the Year.Seventeen won Best New Artist and Push Performance of the Year at the EMAs making them the most awarded group at the 2022 EMAs. sourceSeungkwan received his 1st daesang at the 2022 Korea First Brand Awards category 'Best Male Idol Entertainer' .Seventeen won Best Concert at the 9th E-Daily Culture Awards for their Be the Sun World Tour.Be the Sun was the biggest world tour of 2022 held by a Korean act.Seventeen was the 2nd most streamed boy group on MelOn with 662M streams.Seventeen was the most searched boy group on MelOn on July and August.Seventeen was the 3rd most searched boy group on MelOn with 2.57M searches.5 out of the top 11 most streamed boy group songs on MelOn were Seventeen songs.HOT was named as one of the top 5 best Kpop songs of 2022.Seventeen won the Special International Music Award at the 64th Japan Record Awards. This award is the grammy equivalent of Japan.Seventeen was the 5th most streamed Korean act of 2022 and the 3rd most streamed Kpop boy group on Spotify with 1.162 BILLION streams.Seventeen's Japanese album 'DREAM' sold 387,960 copies on the 1st day on Oricon.'DREAM' sold 621,426 copies on the 1st week on Billboard Japan.'DREAM' peaked at #27 on Billboard Japan Hot 100.'DREAM' has the highest 1st day sales by a K-pop male artist on Oricon in 2022.Seventeen won the Culture Ambassador Award at the LA3C Festival.Seventeen won Best Dance Male Group and Worldwide Fan’s Choice Top 10 at MAMA.Seventeen won a bonsang at the Seoul Music Awards.Seventeen became the first Korean act to have a concert at The Philippine Arena which is the largest indoor arena in the world.Seventeen won Hot Trend Award, Fabulous Award and Singer of the Year (Daesang) at the AAAs.Seventeen won 7 music show awards: 2 win for HOT and 5 for _WORLD.