Kim Jun-su's 'GRAVITY' MV hits 7M views; first-week sales set career high over debut album
Ten years between albums. Kim Jun-su's 5th LP 'GRAVITY' just outsold his 2012 solo debut 'TARANTALLEGRA'—and the music video hit 7 million views before he even took the stage.
The GRAVITY music video crossed 7 million views before Kim Jun-su stepped on stage at KSPO DOME on June 13. The first-week sales number hit harder.
GRAVITY dropped June 2. His first studio album in ten years. The last one was XIGNATURE in 2016. First-week sales set a career high, surpassing his 2012 debut solo album TARANTALLEGRA—which had a 14-year head start on fan loyalty. Jun-su acknowledged the milestone at the '2026 XIA 6th Asia Tour Concert GRAVITY in Seoul,' held at KSPO DOME in Seoul Olympic Park, his first solo performance at that venue in roughly a decade.
"There was definitely a burden that I had to make a work that wouldn't be shameful to my career," he told the audience. The album came from 400 songs he spent a year listening to, revising, and re-recording. Previous albums took roughly two months.
He was candid about the creative tension: his preferred music style felt disconnected from what was trending. Composers behind current idol hits sent submissions, but they came rap-heavy. (He did clarify he's not bad at rap—pre-TVXQ trainee-era Kim Jun-su apparently went by Ryan JS, following in Tiger JK's footsteps.)
The Asia leg of the tour runs July 3–4 in Tokyo, July 9–10 in Osaka, and July 17 in Hong Kong, with additional cities to be announced.
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