ENHYPEN top the charts with their debut in Japan

New K-pop boy group ENHYPEN has swept Oricon’s latest daily and weekly charts with their Japanese debut single “BORDER: Hakanai,” the Japanese music chart reported this month. ENHYPEN sold more than 200,000 copies of their debut single in Japan, “BORDER: Hakanai,” released on July 6, topping the Oricon weekly chart for the week of July 5 to 11.

As soon as they released their first single in Japan, they became the first artist or group so far this year to rank first on the weekly chart of singles in the Asian country and the fifth foreign male artist or group to achieve such a feat, after South Korean artists like Jang Keun-suk, EXO, iKON, and Stray Kids.

“BORDER: Hakanai” remains at the top spot, for the seventh day in a row, since it debuted at the top of Oricon’s daily singles chart on the first day of its release. The new single contains “Given-Taken“, the title track from the debut album “BORDER: Day One”, released in November last year, as well as the Japanese version of “Let Me In (20 CUBE)” and the theme song in Japanese “Don’t forget me“.

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The septet, formed on the South Korean music channel Mnet’s reality show “I-Land,” gained massive popularity in Japan prior to their official debut in that country, as it includes a Japanese member, Ni-ki.