EXO's first album XOXO (2013), which contained the breakthrough hit "Growl", was a critical and commercial success, winning both Disc Daesang at the 28th Golden Disc Awards and Album of the Year at the 15th Mnet Asian Music Awards.
It sold over one million copies, making EXO the best-selling Korean artist in twelve years. Subsequent albums and EPs continued with strong sales.
Their second album EXODUS (2015) and third album EX'ACT (2016) both sold over one million copies each as well.
These albums along with EXO's third EP Overdose (2014) won EXO multiple awards including Disc Daesang at the 29th, 30th and 31st Golden Disc Awards, Album of the Year at the 16th, 17th and 18th Mnet Asian Music Awards and the Daesang award at the 24th, 25th, and 26th Seoul Music Awards.
Their fourth album The War (2017) became their best-selling album to date, selling over 1.6 million copies in South Korea and winning the group a second consecutive Artist of the Year award at the 9th Melon Music Awards and record fifth consecutive Album of the Year award at the 19th Mnet Asian Music Awards.The War also became their highest charting album on the Billboard 200.
EXO have been recipients of numerous awards from South Korea and mainland China. On June 14, 2013, over a year after their official debut, the band received their first win on the South Korean music program Music Bank with their single "Wolf." EXO also holds the record for the most number of wins for a single song with 18 music show wins for "Call Me Baby", released in 2015. Since then, EXO has gone on to win over 100 music program awards, only the second artist to do so, after Girls' Generation, their senior.
EXO have also received 25 Daesang awards, also known as grand prize awards, from various award shows. These most notably include 6 daesang awards from the Mnet Asian Music Awards, which was recorded in the 2018 Guinness World of Records book as the "Most Daesang" ("Grand Prize") awards won at the Mnet Asian Music Awards". Daesang awards are the most significant awards given in the Korean music industry.
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