Stray Children Make Historical past Atop Billboard 200 Chart

As Stray Children’ new album HOP debuts at No. 1 at the Billboard 200 chart (dated Dec. 28), they turn into the primary act to debut at No. 1 with their first six charting albums. The Billboard 200 started publishing on a typical, weekly foundation in March of 1956.

Stray Children up to now debuted atop the chart with ODDINARY and MAXIDENT (each in 2022), ROCK-STAR and 5-STAR (each in 2023) and ATE (previous in 2024).

In the past, Stray Children have been tied with the past due rapper DMX, who noticed his first chart entries debut at No. 1 between 1998-2003: It’s Darkish and Hell Is Sizzling (1998), Flesh of My Flesh Blood of My Blood (1999), …And Then There Was once X (2000), The Nice Despair (2001) and Grand Champ (2003).

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the preferred albums of the week within the U.S. in keeping with multi-metric intake as measured in similar album gadgets, compiled through Luminate. Gadgets contain album gross sales, monitor similar albums (TEA) and streaming similar albums (SEA). Every unit equals one album sale, or 10 particular person tracks offered from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand legitimate audio and video streams generated through songs from an album. The brand new Dec. 28, 2024-dated chart shall be posted in complete on Billboard‘s web page on Tuesday, Dec. 24. For all chart information, apply @billboard and @billboardcharts on each X, previously referred to as Twitter, and Instagram.

Since March 1956, greater than 1,200 other albums have reached No. 1 at the Billboard 200. Till the chart started using Luminate’s electronically monitored monitoring data in Might 1991, simplest six albums debuted at No. 1. After that, it changed into the norm that albums would debut atop the checklist. In 2024, as an example, of the 24 albums that experience frolicked at No. 1, 22 of them debuted at No. 1.