Section.2′ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart

ATEEZ upload their 2nd No. 1 album at the Billboard 200 chart as GOLDEN HOUR: Section.2 debuts atop the checklist (dated Nov. 30) with 184,000 identical album devices earned within the U.S. within the week finishing Nov. 21, consistent with Luminate. With a gap body pushed in large part by way of album gross sales — 179,000 copies bought — the set marks the most efficient week but for the pop ensemble by way of each devices earned or conventional album gross sales.

The act prior to now crowned the chart with THE WORLD EP.FIN: WILL in 2023. In overall, GOLDEN HOUR: Section.2 is the 6th peak 10-charting set for the crowd, all consecutive.

Additionally within the peak 10 of the most recent Billboard 200, Linkin Park logs its twelfth peak 10-charting set with the No. 2 bow of From 0; Jin’s debut album, Glad, enters at No. 3; Rauw Alejandro achieves his first peak 10 with the arriving of Cosa Nuestra at No. 6; and ENHYPEN’s ROMANCE: UNTOLD re-enters the checklist at No. 7 following its reissue on Nov. 15 (dubbed ROMANCE: UNTOLD -daydream-) with two bonus tracks. The set debuted and peaked at No. 2 in July.

With K-pop acts ATEEZ, Jin and ENHYPEN at Nos. 1, 4 and seven, respectively, at the Billboard 200, there are 3 K-pop albums within the peak 10 for the primary time.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most well liked albums of the week within the U.S. according to multi-metric intake as measured in identical album devices, compiled by way of Luminate. Devices contain album gross sales, monitor identical albums (TEA) and streaming identical albums (SEA). Each and every unit equals one album sale, or 10 person tracks bought from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand professional audio and video streams generated by way of songs from an album. The brand new Nov. 30, 2024-dated chart will likely be posted in complete on Billboard‘s site on Tuesday (Nov. 26). For all chart information, practice @billboard and @billboardcharts on each X, previously referred to as Twitter, and Instagram.

Of GOLDEN HOUR: Section.2’s 184,000 identical album devices earned, album gross sales contain 179,000 (it’s the top-selling album of the week and debuts at No. 1 on Best Album Gross sales; it’s additionally the sixth-largest gross sales debut week of 2024 for any name), SEA devices contain 5,000 (equaling 6.43 million on-demand professional streams of the set’s songs) and TEA devices contain a negligible sum. The album’s first-week gross sales had been reinforced by way of its availability throughout 29 bodily structure variants (23 CDs and 6 vinyl editions; all containing collectible branded paper ephemera, some randomized) and 3 virtual obtain variants (a typical version and two variations containing voice notes from the acts as bonus tracks).

As GOLDEN HOUR: Section.2 is largely within the Korean language, it’s the twenty sixth largely non-English-language album to hit No. 1, and the 3rd of 2024. Two different mostly-Korean-language units crowned the chart previous this yr: at the Aug. 3-dated checklist, Stray Youngsters’ ATE transform the crowd’s 5th chief, and at the March 9 score, TWICE’s With YOU-th garnered the act its first chief. Of the 26 largely non-English-language albums to succeed in No. 1, 17 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 26 largely non-English-language albums to succeed in No. 1, 22 have crowned the chart since 2018 (the yr that K-pop superstars BTS scored their first of six No. 1s, the chart’s first Korean-language leaders).

Linkin Park returns to the Billboard 200 with its first new studio album in seven years, as From 0 enters at No. 2 with 97,000 identical album devices earned. Of that sum, album gross sales contain 72,000 (it debuts at No. 2 on Best Album Gross sales), SEA devices contain 24,000 (equaling 32.18 million on-demand professional streams of the set’s songs; it bows at No. 17 on Best Streaming Albums) and TEA devices contain 1,000. From 0 is the band’s twelfth peak 10-charting set and the primary to function new contributors Emily Armstrong (co-lead vocals) and Colin Brittain (drums). The album is the primary with out vocalist Chester Bennington (who died in 2017) and drummer Rob Bourdon (who departed the crowd in 2018).

From 0’s first-week gross sales had been aided by way of its availability throughout 11 vinyl editions (a couple of colour variants, two image discs and 4 selection duvet variations), 4 CD variants (together with a deluxe boxed set containing branded merch and a CD, and a Zine/CD package deal), two cassette editions and two virtual obtain editions. All variations of the album include the similar 11 songs, apart from for one obtain album, which boasts 3 bonus reside tracks.

The brand new album was once introduced on Sept. 5 throughout a livestream live performance that still introduced Armstrong and Brittain becoming a member of the band, together with the discharge of the set’s first unmarried “The Vacancy Device.” The monitor debuted and peaked at No. 21 at the Billboard Scorching 100, marking the best charting reduce from the band since 2009’s “New Divide” hit No. 6. “Vacancy” additionally led the Choice Airplay chart for 5 weeks, marking the thirteenth chief for the band at the score. 3 extra songs previewing the album had been launched earlier than From 0 dropped on Nov. 15: “Heavy Is the Crown,” “Over Each and every Different” and “Two Confronted.”

Tyler, The Author’s chart-topping CHROMAKOPIA falls 1-3 in its fourth week at the chart, after spending its first 3 weeks atop the checklist. It earned 81,000 identical album devices in its fourth charting body (down 22%).

BTS’ Jin sees his solo debut challenge, Glad, bow at No. 4 at the Billboard 200 with 77,000 identical album devices earned. Of that sum, album gross sales contain 66,000 (it debuts at No. 3 on Best Album Gross sales), SEA devices contain 8,000 (equaling 10.53 million on-demand professional streams of the set’s songs) and TEA devices contain 3,000. Glad’s first-week gross sales had been enhanced by way of its availability throughout 13 CD variants (containing branded paper ephemera, some editions come with randomized pieces) and 7 virtual variants (a typical model, two with change duvet artwork, and 4 with different bonus tracks starting from a voice memo to remixes).

Glad is Jin’s first charting album at the Billboard 200, and he turns into the 7th, and ultimate, member of BTS to have accomplished a peak 10-charting effort. BTS itself has logged seven peak 10s, together with six No. 1s. BTS is the primary K-pop act to peer all of its contributors chart a solo peak 10 name at the Billboard 200.

Sabrina Chippie’s former chief Brief n’ Candy dips 3-5 with 72,000 devices (up 6%).

Rauw Alejandro lands his first peak 10-charting effort at the Billboard 200 as Cosa Nuestra debuts at No. 6 with 67,000 identical album devices earned — the artist’s greatest week by way of devices earned. The album’s opening week was once overwhelming pushed by way of streaming process, as SEA devices contain 66,000 of the album’s first week (equaling 87.66 million on-demand professional streams of the set’s songs; it debuts at No. 2 on Best Streaming Albums). Album gross sales contain 1,000 (from only one virtual obtain version of the album) and TEA devices contain a negligible sum. Cosa Nuestra boasts visitors together with Dangerous Bunny, Laura Pausini, Romeo Santos and Pharrell Williams.

ENHYPEN’s ROMANCE: UNTOLD re-enters the Billboard 200 at No. 7 with 54,000 identical album devices earned in the most recent monitoring week (up 960%), following it Nov. 15 repackage and reissue with two bonus tracks. The brand new iteration of the album is dubbed ROMANCE: UNTOLD -daydream-. All variations of the album, previous and new, are blended for monitoring and charting functions. The preliminary liberate of the challenge debuted and peaked at No. 2 in July.

Of the album’s 54,000 devices earned within the week finishing Nov. 21, album gross sales contain 51,000 (up 1,473%, it jumps 26-4 on Best Album Gross sales), SEA devices contain 3,000 (equaling 4.45 million on-demand professional streams of the album’s songs) and TEA devices contain a negligible sum. The set’s album gross sales had been reinforced by way of its availability throughout 12 new CD variants and 3 new obtain editions, becoming a member of its prior to now to be had 17 CD editions, two vinyl variants and a typical obtain album. All bodily editions of the album include branded paper ephemera, some randomized.

Rounding out the end 10 of the most recent Billboard 200: Gracie Abrams’ The Secret of Us (4-8 with 50,000 identical album devices; down 5%), Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Exhausting and Cushy (5-9 with 49,000; up 2%) and Chappell Roan’s The Upward thrust and Fall of a Midwest Princess (6-10 with 43,000; down 8%).

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