Leading the chart this week is the group CORTIS with the mini album "Greengreen". This is the second consecutive week the group's product has held the No. 1 position on Billboard World Albums. Not only that, the album also helps CORTIS continue to maintain its presence on Billboard 200, marking a remarkable step forward in their career.
In addition, CORTIS's debut mini album "Color outside the lines" also showed persistent appeal when it ranked 11th in its 37th week on the chart.
Ranked second is Japanese group &TEAM with the new mini album "We on fire". This is also the first product in their career to help the group reach the Billboard 200, showing the strong growth of the group under HYBE Labels Japan.
In third place, NMIXX continued to maintain stable form with the mini album "Heavy serenade". The product entered its second week on the World Albums chart and simultaneously became the group's fourth album to enter the Billboard 200.
Meanwhile, BTS continues to prove their global influence despite releasing albums from many years ago. This famous group has up to four products appearing on this week's chart.
The compilation album "Proof" ranked at number 4 in its 206th week on Billboard World Albums. In addition, "Map of the soul: 7 ~The journey~" ranked 14th, "Love yourself: Tear" ranked 16th and "Love yourself: Her" ranked 25th.
TXT continued to make their mark with the mini album "7th year: A moment of stillness in the thorns", ranked 5th in its 6th week of release. Followed by ILLIT with "Mamihlapinatapai" in 6th place, marking its third consecutive week on the chart.
Stray Kids also showed stable appeal when three albums appeared on Billboard World Albums. In particular, "Do it" ranked 8th, "Karma" ranked 22nd and "Ate" ranked 23rd.
ENHYPEN appeared with two albums, "The sin: Vanish" at number 9 and "Romance: Untold" at number 24.
Notably, NewJeans' mini album "Get up" released in 2023 still maintains strong attraction when it ranked 17th in its 141st week on the chart.
The latest results show that Kpop artists continue to dominate on Billboard World Albums. Besides new generation groups such as CORTIS, ILLIT or NMIXX, top names including BTS, TXT, Stray Kids, ENHYPEN and NewJeans still maintain strong influence in the international music market through sales, online listens and global coverage.
The fact that many albums released from previous years still continuously appear on the charts also shows the persistent vitality of the Hallyu wave. In particular, BTS continues to affirm their position when owning up to 4 albums appearing simultaneously on World Albums, while NewJeans maintains an impressive record with "Get up" after more than 140 weeks of staying in the charts.
