On July 28 (local time), Billboard announced that the new mini album "ATE" by Kpop boy group Stray Kids debuted at No. 1 on the Top 200 Albums chart, becoming the 5th album in a row. of the group topped this chart, behind “Oddinary", “Maxident", “5-Star” and “Rock-Star”.
Stray Kids is currently the first group in Billboard 200 history to have their first 5 albums debut at No. 1, and the second artist to achieve this achievement after American rapper DMX, more than 2 decades ago.
According to Luminate, "ATE" totaled 232,000 equivalent album units this past week.
The album's total includes 218,000 traditional album sales - marking the second-biggest sales week of any album in 2024, behind only Taylor Swift 's "The Tortured Poets Department" , and 13,000 album units shipped online (SEA), which equates to 19.05 million on-demand streams over the course of the week. "ATE" also achieved 1,000 song equivalent album (TEA) units in its first week.
In addition, Jimin's (BTS) solo album "Muse" debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart.
"Muse" totaled 96,000 album-equivalent units for the week, including 74,000 traditional album units, 15,000 streaming-equivalent album units (SEA) and 7,000 song-equivalent album units (TEA).
With this achievement, Jimin still maintains the record of being one of the three Kpop solo artists with the highest rankings on the Billboard 200 (along with Jungkook's album "Golden" and V's album "Layover" also reaching No. 2).
In particular, Jimin created history by becoming the first Korean solo artist to have more than one album in the Top 3 of the Billboard 200. Previously, Jimin was the first Kpop solo artist to reach the Top 2 of the chart. this category, with the album "Face" released in April 2023.
