On August 7, Friday, Kang Daniel's agency Konnect Entertainment announced that the aggregate album sales for all of Kang Daniel's solo albums have surpassed one million copies!
According to Hanteo Chart, as of August 6 (Thursday), Kang Daniel's debut album "color on me" has sold 472,811 copies. His next album "CYAN", which marks the start of the soloist's "color" trilogy, has a recorded sales of 265,101 copies sold. Kang Daniel released his second mini-album, "MAGENTA", earlier this month on August 3 (Monday). As of August 6, merely three days after its release, the album has already sold 273,468 copies.
Sales for all three albums have come to a total of 1,011,380 copies. It has been only a year since Kang Daniel's solo debut, but he has already hit such an amazing milestone. Additionally, "MAGENTA" was released less than a week ago and has already surpassed the album sales of "CYAN".
Congratulations, Kang Daniel!
ABOUT KANG DANIEL
Kang Daniel was first introduced to the public as a contestant on Mnet's "Produce 101 Season 2" in 2017. During his time on the show, he represented his former company, MMO Entertainment. At the show's finale, he ranked first place and was appointed the center of Wanna One.
He debuted in 2017 with Wanna One. From the moment of his debut, Kang Daniel's solo popularity was highly recognized in South Korea. During preparing for Wanna One's debut, he was confirmed to join the pilot season of the variety show "It's Dangerous Beyond The Blankets".
That same month, he was on the cover of the Weekly Chosun magazine. He was additionally chosen as the first male celebrity to grace the cover of InStyle Korea. He was a cast member of the variety show "Master Key", which led him to win a Rookie Award in the Variety category during the 2017 SBS Entertainment Awards. He won that award again during the 2018 MBC Entertainment Awards.
In 2018, he was the main model of Davichi's music video for "Days Without You". The contract for Wanna One ended in December of 2018, but he still appeared with the group in January of 2019.
In July 2019, Kang Daniel made his debut as a soloist. With his debut extended play, he broke the Hanteo record for the highest first-day and first-week physical sales for a solo artist since the chart's inception. He won his first music show win for his debut title track "What Are You Up To". He then embarked on a fan meet tour in Asia.
In 2020, he had a comeback with "2U" from his second extended play "CYAN". The track won numerous music show wins. Prior to the release, he collaborated with Zico to release a song called "Refresh", working together as part of Pepsi and Starship Entertainment's collaboration project called "For The Love of Korea". The song was co-produced by Steve Aoki.
He has dabbled in the Western market, participating in the 88rising's Asia Rising Forever and the TikTok Stage online concert. That same year, Kang Daniel released his first OST "Something" for the drama "Backstreet Rookie".
His latest comeback was released on August 3, with an extended play from the second installment of his "color" trilogy, "MAGENTA".
Watch Kang Daniel's "Who U Are" below!
