Seventeen's 'Face the Sun' gets 2 million orders

Boy band Seventeen’s fourth full-length album “Face the Sun” chalked up over 2 million pre-release orders, Pledis Entertainment said Friday.

“Face the Sun” is set to be Seventeen’s sixth straight million-selling album. Since September 2019, all of Seventeen’s albums and EPs have sold more than 1 million copies.

“Face the Sun” will drop on May 27.

The album has nine songs: the lead track “HOT,” “Darl+ing,” “Don Quixote,” “March,” “Domino,” “Shadow,” “’bout you,” “If You Leave Me” and “Ash.”

Seventeen, a 13-member boy band, debuted in 2015 with the EP "17 Carat." Seventeen is best known for songs "Adore U" (2015), "Don't Wanna Cry" (2017) and "Ready to Love" (2021). It consists of members S.coups, Wonwoo, Mingyu, Vernon, Woozi, Jeonghan, Joshua, DK, Seungkwan, Hoshi, Jun, The8 and Dino.

BY SHIN MIN-HEE [shin.minhee@joongang.co.kr]