2012

 

• Debut album MAMA surpasses 100,000 in one month.

• EXO- K album reached number one on Gaon Album Chart and number eight on Billboard World Albums Chart

• EXO- M album reached number two on Sina Album Chart

• EXO- K MAMA MV reached number 7 on Youtube’s Global Chart

• EXO- M MAMA MV reached number 1 on China's streaming sites

• EXO- K Wins best New Artist at the 2012 MAMA Awards

• EXO- M received the Most Popular Group Award at the 2013 Top Chinese Music Awards

• Currently hold the record for the highest kpop debut album sales:  EXO-M = 188,624/ EXO- K = 295,680 /Overall = 484,304 *

• Total of 9 awards won + 3 Nominations in 2012

 

2013

 

• XOXO reached number one on Billboard World Albums Chart a week after its release

• XOXO sells over 1,000,000 copies, making EXO the first Korean artist to sell over a million copies of one album in twelve years and breaking the record for being the fastest-selling K-pop act. *

• XOXO was named Album of the Year at the 2013 Mnet Asian Music Awards, making EXO the youngest ever boy band to win the award. *

• “Growl” reached number one on all four of Korea’s major music programs

• “Growl” placed number 3 on Billboard Korea Kpop Hot 100 and No 2 on Gaon Singles Chart

• EXO had 6 of the 10 albums on Gaon’s Yearly Top 10 Best Selling Albums

• Broke the Weekly Idol rating with an average viewership rating of 1.175% (July 10, 2012) *

• Broke the then first week album sales record by selling more than 112,435 *

• Broke the record for their live-stream event 'EXO LIVE! Growl on One Summer Night!' with a total of 350,000 fans live streaming *

• “Growl” Charted for 49 weeks on Melon making it one of the longest charting songs on Melon

• "Growl" has over 2 million downloads / sales

• XOXO was the best selling album in Korea for 2013

• Total of 23 awards + 17 nominations from Korean, Chinese, and International award Shows.

• Won 2 daesangs (Album of the Year at MAMA + Song of the Year at Melon Music Awards)

• Total of 27 music show wins

 

2014

 

• Broke the record for most pre-ordered album in kpop history with Overdose reaching 660,000 pre orders. *

• Korean version of Overdose peaked at No. 2 on Billboard’s World Album Chart

• EXO at the time became the highest charting kpop male group on the Billboard 200 peaking at 129 *

• EXO were the best selling Kpop artist in Japan for 2014

• Overdose became the first mini album to top yearly chart awards and to win album of the year at the MAMA awards *

• Broke the record for the fastest sold out concert for a Korean act by selling out in 1.47 seconds *

• "Overdose" has over 1 million downloads / sales

• Overdose was the best selling album in Korea for 2014

• Total of 35 awards won + 9 nominations

• Won 4 daesangs ( Daesang at Seoul Music Awards + Disk daesang at Golden Disk Awards + Artist of the Year and Album of the Year at MAMA )

• Total of 13 music show wins

 

2015

 

• Broke the record for the most amount of fans attempting to buy a concert ticket (1.2 million) *

• EXODUS pre- sales surpass 500,000

• “Call Me Baby” was the most watched kpop mv in the first half of 2015

• “EXO Next Door” became most watched web drama of 2015 ( over 50 million views) *

• “Call Me Baby” wins 18 music show awards becoming the second most awarded song in history and the most awarded song of 2015 *

• "Call Me Baby" wins on music shows during the first week of promotions

• EXODUS became the longest charting number 1 album on the album chart (4 weeks) *

• Broke the US billboard 200 record as the highest ranking Korean artist at number 90*

• Became first Korean group to enter Canadian Billboard Hot 100 at number 98 *

• EXODUS sells over one million copies, EXO become “double million sellers”

• EXODUS ranked number 6 for world wide group album sales in 2015.

• “Call me baby” charts on Melon for 45 weeks, becoming one of the longest charting idol group songs.

• “Love me right” charts for 42 weeks

• "Call me Baby" and "Love me Right" both have over 1 million downloads / sales.

• Broke the record for the shortest amount of time since debut to hold a concert at the Tokyo Dome *

• Broke the record for the all time best selling debut single in Japan *

• Japanese album sold 147,000 on the day of its release

• First artist to hold a Korean Dome Concert (Gocheok Dome) *

• Sing For You broke the then first week sales record by selling 267,900 copies in its first week *

• The track "Unfair" became the first K-pop song to be ranked in the "best of the week" playlist by Apple Music *

• Became the first Korean artist to be featured on the Apple Music homepage *

• Named the most powerful celebrity by Forbes Korea for 2014

• Ranked number 7 in Pop culture leaders for the year 2014

• Became the first artist to win album of the year 3 times in a row at the MAMA awards *

• First artist to win Daesang award 3 times in a row at Seoul Music Awards *

• Reached number 7 on gallup poll for most popular artist in Korea for 2015

• Xiumin’s Falling for Challenge became the most watched web drama of 2015*

• Baekhyun’s OST for EXO Next Door titled “Beautiful” becomes first web drama ost to top digital charts *

• EXO Lay broke several online book records with the release of his autobiography Standing Firm at 24 which sold 68,537 copies in the first 24 minutes of pre- sales

• EXODUS is the best selling album in Korea for 2015

• Total of 23 awards + 10 nominations

• Won 4 daesangs ( Daesang at Seoul Music Awards + Disk daesang at Golden Disk Awards + Album of the Year at Melon + Album of the Year at MAMA)

• Total of 32 overall music show wins

 

2016

 

• Ranked the most powerful celebrity of 2015 by Forbes Korea for the second year in a row

• EXO Baekhyun's duet "Dream" reached over 1 million downloads/ Sales

• Set concert attendance record for one of the concerts in the EXO'luxion in America tour *

• EXO Sehun wins Weibo Kpop Star Award at Gaon Chart Kpop Awards

• Broke record for most pre-sold album with Ex’Act pre sales surpassing 660,000 *

• Ex’Act was the first Korean album to sell over 100,000 copies in one day *

• Broke the first week sales record by selling over 522,372 copies in one week. *

• W Korea’s EXOclusive became the best selling fashion magazine issue in Korea of all time *

• Became the first artist to hold six consecutive concerts at the Olympics Gymnastics Arena *

• Ex’Act reached number one on World Albums Chart

• “Monster” hit number one on Billboard World Digital Songs Chart, with “Lucky One” at Number 3

• Ex’Act hit #4 in 2016 Worldwide first week sales with 500,000 + sales

• “Monster” becomes highest scoring song on M! Countdown for 2016 and the fourth highest scoring song of all time

• Ex’Act breaks record for most album points in Music Bank history with a total of 8785 points

• “Monster” charted number one on melon for 145 consecutive hours and 139 hours on Genie

• EXO's "Monster" MV is currently the most liked kpop mv on YouTube for 2016 ( 947k likes)

• “Lotto” hit number one on Billboard World Digital Songs Chart and number 2 on Gaon Digital Chart

• Lotto Repackaged album ranked number 10 on Billboard World Albums Chart

• Ex’Act reached number 1 and 2 on YinYueTai V-Chart

• Ex’Act reached number 1 on Itunes Digital Albums Chart and number 8 on Global Itunes and Spotify Charts

• EXO Lay’s Monodrama broke records by staying number 1 on YinYueTai V-Chart for 5 consecutive weeks.* It was followed by EXO’s Monster and Lucky one ranking at number 2 and 3.

• Lotto Korean version reached number one on Gaon Albums Chart with the Chinese version at number 2

• Ex’Act becomes EXO’s third million seller album after 2 months of release. EXO become “triple million sellers”

• “Dancing King” hit number 2 on Gaon’s Digital Chart and number 1 on Gaon’s download Chart

• “Dancing King” ranked number 3 on Billboard World Digital Songs Chart

• EXO Lay becomes the fastest Chinese Artist to reach one million views on YouTube

• EXO Lay becomes the first Chinese artist to enter the US Itunes Chart with song “What U Need”

• EXO Lay's webdrama Old Nine Gates set records with its accumulation of over 10 billion views

• EXO Baekhyun wins V Chart award for most popular Korean singer

• EXO Chen's OST duet "Everytime" reaches over 1 million downloads/ sales

• EXO Kai's webdrama "Choco Bank" becomes the most watched web drama of 2016

• EXO Chanyeol's film So I Married an Anti Fan breaks the highest box office record for 2d Chinese-Korean films in one week

• EXO Lay’s Lose Control becomes Hanteo's highest selling solo album (246, 438) + Highest Selling first week sales for a solo

• EXO Lay’s Lose Control reaches 1 Million digital albums on Xiami

• EXO Lay’s Lose Control holds 9 YYT/Guinness records in total

• EXO Lay’s Lose Control is #3 for Hanteo’s 2016 Chart

• EXO Lay’s Lose Control became the best selling imported album of the year in just one day. (YYT Album Chart)

• EXO Lay’s Lose Control was #1 on the real-time chart for 50 days, #1 on Weekly chart for 8 weeks (YYT Album Chart)

• EXO Lay’s Lose Control reaches a perfect score for the month of November (YYT V Chart)

• EXO Lay’s Lose Control breaks 3 (out of 8) Yinyuetai weekly records and 6 (out of 8) Yinyuetai Monthly records

• EXO Lay’s Lose Control stays #1 on Chinese Billboard for 6 Weeks

• EXO ranked number 1 for group brand reputation for August and September of 2016.

• Only Korean artist to hold a concert in the Philippines for two consecutive days

• Ex’Act is currently the best selling Korean album of 2016

• EXO rank number 9 in worldwide album sales for 2016

• Became the first group to win all 3 daesangs at MMA *

• Won Album of the Year at MAMA for the fourth year in a row

• EXO is the only korean act on Fuse's best 20 songs of 2016 with Monster

• First korean boy group on Japan's "ViVi" magazine *

• First boy group and first asian group to appear on L'UOMO VOGUE cover *

• First international group to sell over 100k in the first week in Japan with Coming Over (Coming Over's first week sales was 140k) *

• EXO D.O’s Hyung movie reached 2.8 million views and was #1 in the box office

• EXO D.O.’s web-drama "Be Positive" surpassed 30 mil views, making it the fastest web drama to reach this amount of views within 18 days from its release. *

• EXO- CBX’s “Hey MAMA” has the highest album sales for a subunit *

• EXO Chanyeol’s OST “Stay With Me” (X Punch) was #3 on Billboard’s World Digital Songs Chart.

• EXO- CBX’s “Hey MAMA” has the highest 24 hour YouTube views for a subunit *

• EXO were the #1 Top Trending Artist on Twitter for 2016

• EXO were the only musical artist in the Top Ten Trends for Music for Twitter in 2016 coming in at #10

• Total of 22 awards + 12 nominations

• Won 5 daesangs (still counting) ( Daesang at Golden Disk Award + daesang at Seoul Music Awards + MAMA Awards + Asian Artist Awards + Melon Awards)

• Total of 17 music show wins

 

Other Records / Achievements

 

• Only artist to debut at #1 on Gaon weekly album chart for 10 consecutive album releases.

• Most Music Show Wins for a male group (excluding subunits and solos) - 87 Wins

• Most Daesang Awards for a group - 16 wins (Youngest group on the list)

• Most followed male group on Melon ( 294,397 followers)

• 10th best selling Korean artist of all time including overseas sales and the youngest artist on the list ( 6.8 million + )

• 2nd best selling domestic Korean male artist and the youngest artist on the list  (6.03 million + )

• Best selling artist in Korea for four years in a row

• Longest running best selling artist in Korea

• Kpop artist with the largest Chinese fancafe (Almost 3 million fans)

• EXO members collectively have 23 individual awards + 12 nominations

• EXO members collectively have over 56 million social media followings (Weibo + instagram ) + nearly 4 million fans on the official EXO fan app