Ok-pop superstars Stray Youngsters and Jimin make a splash atop the Billboard 200 (dated Aug. 3), because the acts’ newest albums, ATE and MUSE, debut at Nos. 1 and a pair of, respectively. In flip, it marks the primary time the highest two on the Billboard 200 are Ok-pop (Korean pop) albums.
Additional, ATE lands Stray Youngsters their fifth No. 1 in a row, making the act the primary group ever to debut at No. 1 with their first 5 charting albums. They beforehand opened atop the chart with ODDINARY, MAXIDENT (each in 2022), ROCK-STAR and 5-STAR (each in 2023).
The one different artist 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).
ATE arrives with 232,000 equal album models earned within the U.S. within the week ending July 25, in response to Luminate. That’s the biggest week of 2024 for any Ok-pop album, and the sixth-biggest debut for any album this yr. MUSE strikes in with 96,000 models, and offers BTS member Jimin his second solo album to achieve No. 2 (after final yr’s FACE).
Additionally within the high 10 of the brand new Billboard 200, the Twisters soundtrack debuts at No. 7 with 57,000 equal album models earned. The nation music-heavy album is the primary soundtrack to achieve the highest 10 in 2024, and it does so with the yr’s largest week, by models earned, for any soundtrack. Additional, it’s the primary nation soundtrack from a theatrical movie to achieve the highest 10 in over a decade.
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Of ATE’s 232,000 first-week models, album gross sales comprise 218,000, SEA models comprise 13,000 (equaling 19.05 million on-demand streams of the set’s songs) and TEA models comprise 1,000. With 218,000 copies bought, ATE is the top-selling album of the week, debuting at No. 1 on Prime Album Gross sales. It additionally nets the biggest gross sales week for any Ok-pop album this yr and 2024’s second-largest gross sales week for any album of any style (trailing solely the 1.91-million gross sales debut of Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Division). ATE’s gross sales have been bolstered by its availability throughout 11 totally different CD variants, all containing collectible objects like photocards, stickers and posters (a few of which was randomized), together with signed editions, in addition to variants unique to Barnes & Noble, Goal and Walmart.
As ATE is generally within the Korean language, it’s the twenty fifth largely non-English-language album to hit No. 1, and the second of 2024. On the March 9-dated chart, TWICE’s With YOU-th garnered the group its first chief when it opened at No. 1. Of the 25 largely non-English-language albums to achieve No. 1, 16 are largely Korean, 5 largely (or all) Spanish, one largely Italian, one fully French, and two largely a mix of Spanish, Italian and French. Of the 25 nearly all non-English-language albums to achieve No. 1, 21 have topped the chart since 2018 (the yr that Ok-pop superstars BTS scored their first of six No. 1s, with the chart’s first Korean-language No. 1s). Additional, of the 16 Ok-pop albums which have reached No. 1, Stray Youngsters and BTS account for 11 (5 and 6, respectively).
Talking of BTS, the group’s Jimin sees his newest solo venture MUSE bow at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 96,000 equal album models earned. Of that sum, album gross sales comprise 74,000 (aided by its availability throughout 9 CD variants, containing collectible posters, photocards and stickers; inclusive of unique editions bought at Barnes & Noble, Goal and Walmart), SEA models comprise 15,000 and TEA models comprise 7,000. In 2023, Jimin’s first solo charting set, FACE, debuted and peaked at No. 2.
MUSE was preceded by the Billboard Sizzling 100-charting “Smeraldo Backyard Marching Band” (with Loco), which debuted at No. 88 on the July 13-dated listing.
Eminem’s The Dying of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) falls to No. 3 in its second week with 79,000 equal album models earned (down 72%) after debuting at No. 1 per week in the past. Swift’s former chief The Tortured Poets Division is a non-mover at No. 4 with 74,000 models (down 9%); Zach Bryan’s The Nice American Bar Scene slips 3-5 with 71,000 (down 19%); and Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Factor at a Time dips 5-6 with 65,000 (down 2%).
Twisters: The Album debuts at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 with 57,000 equal album models earned — marking the primary soundtrack the attain the highest 10 in 2024 and the yr’s largest week, by models, for any soundtrack. Of that sum, SEA models comprise 40,000 (equaling 52.85 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 29 songs), album gross sales comprise 14,000 (it was out there to buy a digital obtain, CD and in three vinyl variants) and TEA models comprise 3,000.
The nation music-heavy venture is the companion album to the movie Twisters, which blew into U.S. film theaters on July 19. The movie is a standalone sequel to 1996’s Tornado, which boasted a rock-focused soundtrack (peaking at No. 28 on the Billboard 200).
The Twisters album contains a wealth of latest unique materials from nation stars together with Luke Combs, Jelly Roll, Miranda Lambert and Lainey Wilson, and was preceded by three charting hits on the Sizzling Nation Songs chart (Combs’ “Ain’t No Love In Oklahoma,” Bailey Zimmerman’s “Hell or Excessive Water” and Tyler Childers’ “Tune Whereas You’re Away”). Twenty of the album’s 29 songs seem within the film, and over half of the album’s tracks have been launched over the course of the ten weeks main as much as the set’s drop on July 19.
Twisters is the primary nation soundtrack to achieve the highest 10 for the reason that Jan. 4, 2014-dated chart, when The Robertsons’ TV soundtrack Duck the Halls: A Robertson Household Christmas closed out its final week within the high 10, having peaked at No. 3 the earlier November. As for nation soundtracks to theatrical movies, like Twisters, the final to achieve the highest 10 was Nation Robust, which peaked at No. 6 on the Jan. 29, 2011, chart. The final nation soundtrack from a theatrical movie to debut within the high 10, like Twisters, was Hannah Montana: The Film, which bowed at No. 2 on the April 11, 2009, chart, later reaching No. 1 on the Might 2 listing. (Soundtrack and nation albums are outlined as these which can be eligible for, or have charted on, Billboard’s Soundtracks and Prime Nation Albums charts, respectively.)
Closing out the highest 10 of the brand new Billboard 200 is Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (falling 7-8 with 54,000 equal album models; up lower than 1%), Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Arduous and Comfortable (6-9 with practically 54,000; down 5%), and Noah Kahan’s Stick Season (holding at No. 10 with 43,000; up 10%).
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