K-pop boy band Stray Kids’ album Hop gets historic sixth Billboard 200 No. 1
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Stray Kids are the first act in the 69-year history of the Billboard 200 chart to have all six of their albums debut at No. 1.
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SEOUL – K-pop boy band Stray Kids marked a historic milestone by ranking No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart for the sixth time with their latest album Hop.
The octet are the first act in the 69-year history of the Billboard 200 chart to have all six of their albums debut at No. 1.
Released on Dec 13, Hop debuted at the top of the Billboard 200, edging ahead of American rapper Kendrick Lamar’s GNX and American superstar Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department.
Starting with Oddinary in 2022, Stray Kids have topped the Billboard 200 with Maxident, 5-Star, Rock Star, Ate and now Hop.
This achievement ties Stray Kids with fellow boy band BTS for the most No. 1 albums by a K-pop group on the Billboard 200.
The Billboard 200 ranks albums based on a combination of three metrics: traditional album sales, streaming equivalent albums and track equivalent albums.
Traditional album sales account for physical copies such as CDs and vinyl records, while streaming equivalent albums convert on-demand audio and video streams from platforms like Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube into album units. Track equivalent albums translate digital song downloads into album units.
Hop recorded 187,000 album units during the chart period according to these metrics, and topped the chart for top album sales.
Stray Kids are on a world tour spanning 48 shows across 32 cities worldwide. Starting in March 2025, the group will embark on a stadium tour across 20 cities in North and South America, as well as Europe.
They played at Singapore’s National Stadium in September, the first overseas stop on the tour after four sold-out nights in Seoul. THE KOREA HERALD/ASIA NEWS NETWORK
