Some EXO achievements, in order, that Kpop stan twitter doesn’t want you to believe: A thread
Reviving physical sales industry. EXO became the first artist in 12 years to sell 1 million album copies hence reviving the physical sales industry in 2013
In 2015, EXO became the youngest ever artist to sell out Tokyo Dome, held 3 sold out concerts there in a row and they did this without a Japanese debut. They’re also the artist who sold out Tokyo Dome the fastest out of everyone who has performed there.
Also in 2015, EXO became the first ever group to hold a Dome concert in South Korea, they held concerts there 3 days in a row and it was all sold out as well.
EXO hold the record for the fastest selling concert. It was even covered on national TV in South Korea:

“Over 1M people logged on to the site to buy tickets for exo leading them to sellout in less than a second”
and in case you didn’t know, in 2017 South Korea had the world’s fastest internet, korean EXOLs are known to be really fast at buying tickets and most korean EXOLs already have the website loaded when it’s time to order a ticket. Even reality shows talked about this.
Speaking of which, EXO are the youngest group ever to sell out Jamsil Stadium. They are also the first group in 16 years to sell out this stadium in 2017 since H.O.T in 2001.
In 2017, EXO became the first group to become quadruple million sellers with ‘The War’ album.
EXO were listed in 2018 Guinness World Records for the most Daesang awards won at MAMA.
Also in Guinness World Records, EXO were listed as one of the artists with the most awards won of all time globally, not just in South Korea.
EXO performed at the closing ceremony of PyeongChang Olympics in 2018 as the honourary ambassadors of Korea.
EXO were officially given the title “Nation’s Pick” by the South Korean government in 2018.
EXO became the first group to receive official commemorative medal as representatives of South Korea.
Fun fact: The commemorative medal EXO recieved helped raise over $20,000 USD for children in need.
Also in 2018, EXO became the first group to have their song played at Dubai Fountain.

‘Power’ became the first ever Kpop song to be played at the world’s tallest and largest fountain, paving the way for other Kpop songs to be played there.
EXO are the first ever Kpop group to become quintuple million sellers with their “Don’t mess up my tempo” album in late 2018.
Baekhyun was chosen to sing the national anthem of South Korea in 2018 as well as 2014.
Yixing’s 2019 solo EP ‘Honey’ broke all nine sales levels on QQ by selling 1.8 million copies in 3 minutes achieving diamond status on China’s music platform QQ which broke his own previous record with his album ‘Namanana’ (2018) which got diamond status under 12 hours of release
With his debut as a soloist in 2019, Baekhyun broke the record for the highest monthly album sales, broke his own group’s record for the most #1 on iTunes, broke the record for most first day sales and became the first soloist to sell 100,000+ album copies in a decade.
In 2019, EXO’s Sehun and Chanyeol debuted as a subunit and today, they’re the best selling sub unit in the history of kpop. They also broke the record for the highest number of first day sales for a subunit with their latest comeback.
Yixing’s latest solo album ‘LIT’(2020) set a record in QQ Music (China’s largest music platform) history as the album made 30 million Yuan (approximately 5.1 billion won / $4,209,820 USD) from preorder album sales in under 7 minutes.
For his latest comeback with the ‘Delight’ album, Baekhyun broke his own previous record for the highest first week sales for a soloist with 600k+ album sales.

Most importantly, Baekhyun became the first million seller soloist in over 19 years with ‘Delight’.
EXO still hold the record for the most total music show wins ever.
As of right now, EXO have 450 total awards (not including most 2020 awards) to their name making them one of the most, if not the most awarded kpop group in history.

Here’s a list of all the 450 awards they earned in case y’all want to stay in denial: https://twitter.com/sarakorea24/status/1242058388147765260
I made this thread because Kpop stan Twitter has been dragging EXO this entire week. Hopefully this thread was a reality check up that EXO aren’t the fl0ps y’all want them to be <3 anyways ot9 exols follow me and stream 1BV
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