TWS’s ‘NO TRAGEDY’: How This Mini Album Became Japan’s Top Seller with 220,000 Copies in Week One!

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(The CEN News / Reporter Yang Hyung-ju) Group TWS (Shinyu, Dohun, Youngjae, Hanjin, Jihoon, Kyungmin) has topped Japan’s Oricon weekly album chart with its fifth mini-album, NO TRAGEDY.

The record sold roughly 220,000 copies in its first week, far outpacing the Japanese first-week sales of their previous release, play hard.

Oricon said TWS set a personal weekly-sales record with NO TRAGEDY, marking the group’s first No. 1 on the weekly album chart since debut. The album also reached No. 1 on Billboard Japan’s Top Album Sales chart (May 13).

TWS’s fifth mini-album opened at No. 1 on Oricon’s daily album chart on its local release day and returned to the top on the 6th and 9th. It hit No. 1 on Japan’s iTunes K-pop albums chart and No. 2 on Apple Music’s K-pop album chart. The title track, “I’ll Follow You (You, You),” remained near the top of Spotify Japan’s viral/rising chart from the 1st through the 3rd.

Album tracks “I’ll Be All Your Possibilities” and “Why You So Bad?” entered Melon’s Top 100 and ranked No. 2 and No. 4, respectively, on China’s QQ Music weekly Korean chart for April 23–29. Both songs also placed in YouTube Korea’s top 10 for Trending Music.

TWS continued to rack up wins on broadcast music shows. On the 8th and 10th they took trophies on KBS2’s Music Bank and SBS’s Inkigayo. Reviewers praised the “I’ll Follow You (You, You)” performance as a smart twist on the refreshing sound that has become TWS’s trademark.

NO TRAGEDY frames the group as youthful Romeos fighting fate to win love. The album recorded first-week sales of 1,112,770 copies, becoming the group’s first million-seller.

TWS are scheduled to continue their music show promotions with appearances on Mnet’s M Countdown on the 14th, KBS2’s Music Bank on the 15th, MBC’s Show! Music Core on the 16th, and SBS’s Inkigayo on the 17th.

(The CEN News) Reporter Yang Hyung-ju press@mhns.co.kr