As Stray Children’ new album ATE opens at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart (dated Aug. 3), they change into the primary group ever to debut at No. 1 with their first 5 charting albums.
Stray Children beforehand debuted atop the chart with ODDINARY, MAXIDENT (each in 2022), ROCK-STAR and 5-STAR (each in 2023).
The one different act to debut at No. 1 with its first 5 chart entries was rapper DMX in 1998-2003 with It’s Darkish and Hell Is Sizzling (1998), Flesh of My Flesh Blood of My Blood (1999), …And Then There Was X (2000), The Nice Melancholy (2001) and Grand Champ (2003).
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most well-liked albums of the week within the U.S. based mostly on multi-metric consumption as measured in equal album items, compiled by Luminate. Items comprise album gross sales, monitor equal albums (TEA) and streaming equal albums (SEA). Every unit equals one album sale, or 10 particular person tracks bought from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The brand new Aug. 3, 2024-dated chart might be posted in full on Billboard’s web site on July 30. For all chart information, comply with @billboard and @billboardcharts on each X, previously often known as Twitter, and Instagram.
ATE arrives with 232,000 equal album items earned within the U.S. within the week ending July 25, in keeping with Luminate. That’s the biggest week of 2024 for any Ok-pop album, and the sixth-biggest debut for any album this 12 months.
The Billboard 200 started publishing on an everyday, weekly foundation in March of 1956. For context, immediately it’s widespread for albums to debut at No. 1. Nevertheless, earlier than 1991, when the Billboard 200 started using Luminate’s electronically monitored monitoring data, solely six albums debuted at No. 1.