Court documents resurfaced the allegations.
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SEVENTEEN have been pulled into allegations involving HYBE and album sales.
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Recently, it was alleged that HYBE artificially inflated album sales for its groups. Court documents from the company’s ongoing legal issues with former ADOR CEO Min Hee Jin recently claimed that around 500,000 albums were returned after 650,000 were reported from an unnamed group.
This has been considered to be sajaegi, which HYBE has been accused of before.
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With the accusations resurfacing, some have pointed at various groups, including SEVENTEEN, who have recorded massive album sales, including for FML, which currently is the best selling K-Pop album ever. The group also hold second place with Seventeenth Heaven.
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Some have alleged that “proof” of SEVENTEEN’s album sales being inflated exists in the form of images of a large number SEVENTEEN’s 17 Is Right Here appearing to be discarded.
We know who this is https://t.co/vg9XbkAHyc pic.twitter.com/CnkV0UXz2p
— isa (@solmerv) March 17, 2026
Court documents show that HYBE returned 500K albums out of 650K sales figure for one of their groups pic.twitter.com/7Zb7xzh0ug
— Korean Wave 🇰🇷 2 (@theKwave2) March 17, 2026
However, these photos document another issue with K-Pop albums, rather than the allegations made against HYBE.
In addition to albums being used as entries for fan event raffles, albums come with different inclusions like photocards, which are highly sought after and come in a number of varieties. This has led to album waste as shown in the photos, where the inclusions of taken out and the rest of the albums set aside for recycling or trash.
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Fans commented this, correcting the allegations and clearing SEVENTEEN’s name in this case.
“Out of the 650k sales figure”
The last time seventeen had an album that sold that much was in 2018, pre acquisition.
If your gonna drag at least be intelligent https://t.co/q90CdKCeLU
— Twilo .✦ ݁˖ (@TwiloTwig) March 17, 2026
the boxes are empty, so is your head. https://t.co/VtGmzLFpBO
— nasi. (@semangkukuji) March 17, 2026
the boxes are empty, so is your head. https://t.co/VtGmzLFpBO
— nasi. (@semangkukuji) March 17, 2026
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