K-pop group SEVENTEEN, who topped the IFPI's Global Album and Global Album Sales Charts, pose with their awards. Photo from the IFPI's Instagram accountK-pop acts dominated a global album sales chart, with boy band SEVENTEEN taking the lead, an industry body said Thursday.

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), which represents the recording music industry, unveiled the 2023 IFPI Global Album Sales Chart, in which 19 of the 20 ranked albums hail from South Korea.

The chart measures "unit sales across all physical formats, as well as full album downloads – a combination sometimes known as pure sales," the IFPI explained.

K-pop's rule over the chart was "unprecedented," the IFPI said, adding that it demonstrated the South Korean idol music industry's "global dominance of the physical album format."

The Top 10 albums of the IFPI's 2023 Global Album Sales Chart. Photo from the IFPI websiteSEVENTEEN's "FML" topped the IFPI Global Album Sales Chart after selling 6.4 million units globally in 2023, " breaking the record for most pre-orders ever for an album in South Korea," the IFPI said.

In February, the IFPI crowned "FML" as last year's biggest-selling album in the world as it topped the Global Album Chart, which is based on "worldwide sales across streaming, download and physical music formats."

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Taylor Swift's "1989 (Taylor's Version)" was the only non-Korean album to enter the Top 20 of the Global Album Sales Chart, ranking sixth.

Below is the full list of the IFPI's Global Album Sales Chart for 2023:

1. SEVENTEEN - "FML" (6.4 million units)
2. Stray Kids - "5-STAR" (5.3m)
3. NCT Dream - "ISTJ" (4.6m)
4. SEVENTEEN - "SEVENTEENTH HEAVEN" (4.5m)
5. Stray Kids - "ROCK-STAR" (4.2m)
6. Taylor Swfit - "1989 (Taylor’s Version)" (2.8m)
7. Jungkook (BTS) - "GOLDEN" (2.7m)
8. EXO - "EXIST" (2.3m)
9. IVE - "I've MINE" (2.2m)
10. V (BTS) - "Layover" (2.2m)
11. ZEROBASEONE - "Youth in the Shade" (2.2m)
12. aespa - "My World" (2.1m)
13. Tomorrow X Together - "The Name Chapter: Freefall" (2m)
14. (G)I-DLE - "I Feel" (2m)
15. NCT 127 - "Fact Check" (1.9m)
16. ENHYPEN - "Dark Blood" (1.7m)
17. IVE - "I've IVE" (1.7m)
18. Jimin (BTS) - "Face" (1.7m)
19. ENHYPEN - "Orange Blood" (1.7m)
20. aespa - "Drama" (1.5m)

Meanwhile, Taylor Swift held the top three spots on the IFPI's Global Vinyl Album Chart with "1989 (Taylor’s Version)" at No. 1, followed by "Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)" and "Midnights" at second and third place, respectively.

American country singer-songwriter Morgan Wallen's "One Thing At A Time," meanwhile, topped the IFPI Global Streaming Album Chart.

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