Stray Children Ranking 6th No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart With ‘HOP’

Stray Children rating their 6th No. 1 at the Billboard 200 albums chart as HOP debuts atop the record dated Dec. 28. It’s the 6th chief for the gang, making the pop ensemble the primary act to debut at No. 1 with its first six chart entries within the just about 69-year historical past of the chart. The Billboard 200 started publishing on a normal, weekly foundation in March 1956.

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

Additional, with a 6th No. 1, Stray Children tie BTS, Linkin Park and Dave Matthews Band for probably the most No. 1s amongst teams at the Billboard 200 on this century (since 2000).

HOP arrives with 187,000 an identical album gadgets earned within the U.S. within the week finishing Dec. 19, consistent with Luminate, in large part pushed by way of conventional album gross sales.

Additionally within the best 10 of the newest Billboard 200, Mariah Carey’s Merry Christmas jingles again to the highest 10 for a 7th consecutive vacation season, because the 1994 unencumber climbs 14-10. The set, which comprises the Billboard Scorching 100-topping “All I Need for Christmas Is You,” peaked at No. 3 in 1994.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the preferred albums of the week within the U.S. in line with multi-metric intake as measured in an identical album gadgets, compiled by way of Luminate. Gadgets include album gross sales, observe an identical albums (TEA) and streaming an identical 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 reliable audio and video streams generated by way of songs from an album. The brand new Dec. 28, 2024-dated chart will likely be posted in complete on Billboard‘s website online on Tuesday, Dec. 24. For all chart information, observe @billboard and @billboardcharts on each X, previously referred to as Twitter, and Instagram.

Of HOP’s 187,000 first-week an identical album gadgets, album gross sales include 176,000 (it debuts at No. 1 at the Most sensible Album Gross sales chart), SEA gadgets include 10,000 (equaling 14.83 million on-demand reliable streams of the units songs) and TEA gadgets include 1,000.

HOP’s album gross sales have been reinforced by way of its availability throughout seven other CD variants, all containing collectible pieces corresponding to photocards, posters, stickers and buying and selling playing cards (together with some randomized pieces), with variants unique to Barnes & Noble, Goal, Walmart and the act’s reliable webstore. Of the album’s 176,000 album gross sales, CD gross sales include 171,000, whilst virtual obtain albums include 5,000.

Prior to now, Stray Children have been tied with past due rapper DMX as the one acts to peer their first 5 chart entries debut at No. 1 at the Billboard 200. DMX did it in 1998-2003 with It’s Darkish and Hell Is Scorching (1998), Flesh of My Flesh Blood of My Blood (1999), …And Then There Used to be X (2000), The Nice Despair (2001) and Grand Champ (2003).

As HOP is largely within the Korean language, it’s the twenty seventh largely non-English-language album to hit No. 1, and the fourth of 2024. 3 different mostly-Korean-language units crowned the chart previous this yr, all by way of additionally debuting at No. 1: At the Nov. 30-dated record, ATEEZ landed its 2d chief with Golden Hour: Section.2; at the Aug. 3 chart, Stray Children’ ATE arrived; and at the March 9 chart, TWICE notched its first chief in With YOU-th. Of the 27 largely non-English-language albums to achieve No. 1, 18 are largely Korean, 5 largely (or all) Spanish, one largely Italian, one totally French and two largely a mix of Spanish, Italian and French. Of the 27 largely non-English-language albums to achieve No. 1, 23 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).

The remainder of the Billboard 200’s best 5 accommodates former No. 1s: Kendrick Lamar’s GNX is a non-mover at No. 2 (100,000 an identical album gadgets earned; down 20%), Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Division falls 1-3 (85,000; down 65%), Sabrina Chippie’s Brief n’ Candy steps 5-4 (69,000; down 9%) and Michael Bublé’s Christmas climbs 7-5 (68,000; up 10%).

Essentially the most just lately launched vacation album within the best 10 is Bing Crosby’s Final Christmas compilation, which ascends two spots to a brand new height at No. 6 (65,000 an identical album gadgets; up 15%). The Depraved movie soundtrack falls 6-7 (just about 65,000; down 13%), Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Laborious and Comfortable rises 9-8 (62,000; up 11%) and Chappell Roan’s The Upward push and Fall of a Midwest Princess climbs 11-9 (56,000; up 12%).

Remaining out the highest 10 is Mariah Carey’s Merry Christmas, emerging 14-10 with 56,000 an identical album gadgets earned (up 22% with a ten,000 unit achieve — the most important unit building up at the chart). The set returns to the highest 10 for a 7th consecutive vacation season. It peaked at No. 3 all over its preliminary chart run in 1994, in a while following its unencumber that yr.

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