Stray Kids, an eight-piece South Korean K-pop group, has scored its sixth No. 1 album and second this year on the Billboard 200 albums chart, bumping Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department” to No. 3 after it made a two-week return to the top.
With “HOP” at No. 1, Stray Kids are tied with Linkin Park, BTS and Dave Matthews Band for the most No. 1s among groups on the catalog since 2000. The 12-song “HOP” — writed of solo and group carry outances — logs a total of 187,000 units in its debut week, per Luminate. It’s the top selling album in the United States with a total of 176,000 albums sales.
American fans have the opportunity to buy seven separateent CD variants, all compriseing collectible items such as ptoastyocards, posters, stickers and trading cards. They scored 171,000 CD sales and 5,000 digital downloads.
The Reuncover Records signees — also the tag for Swift, Nicki Minaj and Ariana Grande — scored their first chart-topper on the catalog earlier this August with “ATE.”
The second spot on the tardyst chart beextfinisheds to Kfinishrick Lamar’s “GNX” with a firm 100,000 equivalent album units geted. Lamar’s sixth studio LP was a surpascfinish liberate, on Nov. 22, and uncovered at No. 1 with 319,000 units selderly, some of the biggest first-week numbers posted this year.
The rest of the top 10 persists with Sabrina Carpaccess’s “Short n’ Sweet” at No. 4; The “Wicked” film soundtrack at No. 7, Billie Eilish’s “Hit Me Hard and Soft” at No. 8 and Chappell Roan’s “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess” at No. 9.
Meanwhile, Michael Bublé’s 2011 “Christmas” album is the highest-charting holiday set on Christmas week at No. 5 with 68,000 units geted. Bing Crosby’s “Ultimate Christmas” compilation is at No. 6 while Mariah Carey’s 1994 hit, “Merry Christmas,” lifts to No. 10 for a seventh consecutive holiday season.
