VANISH’ Album In One Day

ENHYPEN’s new album sold roughly 1.65 million copies in its first 24 hours, instantly becoming this year’s top-selling K-pop album in an already surprisingly packed first two weeks of January.

According to South Korea’s real-time sales Hanteo Chart, THE SIN : VANISH sold 1,652,560 physical copies worldwide upon its release on Friday, January 16, 2026. In the days since it dropped, the EP has already moved more than 140,000 additional copies, per Hanteo, most notably selling an additional 93,615 albums just on Monday, January 19.

Despite the colossal opening, THE SIN : VANISH isn’t even ENHYPEN’s personal best. Hanteo’s historical counts put VANISH behind two earlier one-day totals: 2025’s DESIRE : UNLEASH (which moved about 1.89 million copies on its first day, the band’s biggest single-day sales to date) and 2024’s ROMANCE : UNTOLD (over 1.88 million).

As is typical for K-pop album releases, ENHYPEN unveiled multiple versions and variants of THE SIN : VANISH, each with different creative concepts, colors and collectible items. But the band even took their savvy marketing a step further by including special plushies to accompany the release, and even a “keyring” version of the album packaged with a colorful bat keychain in a Pop Mart–style box. THE SIN : VANISH even includes a track titled “The Voice” that acts as a skit interlude with a faux ad for the keychain plush (saying how the little critters “sent shockwaves through vampire society”) and encourages fans to check out an immersive news site Vampire.Live that imagines ENHYPEN’s ongoing vampire lore into 24-hour media coverage. It all underscores how ENHYPEN’s ENGENE fandom’s buying power has only grown as the group’s mythology and global footprint have expanded.

Industry predictions currently have THE SIN : VANISH in a three-way tie to potentially hit Number One on the U.S. Billboard 200 albums chart with the new A$AP Rocky album, Don’t Be Dumb, and Bad Bunny’s blockbuster DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS album, with the record currently predicted to move 116,000 units, including 105,000 from traditional album sales.

Perhaps to be more competitive on the digital side, ENHYPEN dropped seven new digital versions of the EP on Monday, January 19, one for each member, where each singer recorded his own version of the new single “Knife” and a personalized voice note to fans. ENHYPEN also unveiled an English version of “Knife,” all of which should support the record’s performance across streaming and digital metrics — particularly with the eight versions of “Knife” potentially being the key to ENHYPEN earning a long-awaited debut entry on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.

Elsewhere on the global charts, “Knife” debuted on the Global Spotify Daily chart with roughly 1.532 million streams for its initial tracking window. On YouTube, the official “Knife” video rocketed into the tens of millions of views within the first day, currently boasting more than 27 million views at press time.

Artistically, THE SIN : VANISH is built to be experienced as a single listening experience, rather than a loose set of singles, folding ENHYPEN’s long-running vampire mythology into music meant to be consumed start-to-finish. Along with heavy involvement from the group’s longtime producer ARMADILLO alongside collaborations with unexpected Korean heavyweights like GAEKO of legendary hip-hop group Dynamicduo and indie rocker So!YoON!, VANISH feels like a career milestone that fans are treating more as a collector’s moment in the ongoing support.

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With less than three weeks into the year, THE SIN : VANISH also quickly takes over as this year’s biggest-selling album, surpassing the 1.44 million posted by ALPHA DRIVE ONE’s historic debut album EUPHORIA the week before.

ENHYPEN leads a particularly hot start to 2026 with their HYBE labelmates DK and Seungkwan of SEVENTEEN moving about 600,000 physical copies of Serenade, their debut album as a splinter duo, released on January 12. New boy band idntt posted more than 431,000 units of their album after its January 5 release.

Meanwhile, CORTIS continues its promise as one of 2025’s most acclaimed K-pop rookies with more than 82,000 copies sold of its debut COLOR OUTSIDE THE LINES mini album. Other breakout releases for 2026 include Apink’s 11th mini album RE : LOVE (selling more than 47,500 copies to date), just-debuted boy band LNGSHOT and its first release SHOT CALLERS (with more than 43,500 copies sold), Korean rock-pop group CNBLUE’s third full-length album 3LOGY (about 30,000 sold), as well as Crossfade:, the debut solo album from SF9 member Inseong (over 19,500 sold).

Stay tuned for more updates on ENHYPEN’s THE SIN : VANISH performs globally in what is already turning into one of 2026’s biggest album releases.