RIIZE Achieves Highest 1st-Week Sales Of 2025 With “ODYSSEY”

RIIZE continues to rise with “ODYSSEY”!
Last week, RIIZE made their highly-anticipated comeback with their first full-length album “ODYSSEY” and its buoyant title track “Fly Up.”
Hanteo Chart has now reported that “ODYSSEY” sold an impressive total of 1,797,267 copies in the first week of its release (May 19 to 25)—marking the highest first-week sales of any album released in 2025.
In addition to achieving the highest first-week sales of 2025 thus far, “ODYSSEY” also easily smashed RIIZE’s previous first-week sales record of 1,255,015 (set by their first mini album “RIIZING” last year).
Congratulations to RIIZE on their exciting achievement!
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