K-pop girl group NewJeans debut atop Billboard 200 albums chart, land 3 songs on Hot 100 singles chart
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The second EP from NewJeans led the Billboard 200 with a total of 126,500 in sales tallied between July 21 and 27.
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SEOUL – K-pop sensation NewJeans have made it to the top of Billboard.
The teen quintet’s new album Get Up debuted at No. 1 on the American music publication’s albums chart Billboard 200, becoming the second K-pop girl group after Blackpink to hit the top spot.
This marks the first time a female South Korean act debuted on the chart at No. 1.
The second EP from NewJeans led the Billboard 200 with a total of 126,500 in sales tallied between July 21 and 27.
The rookie group also scored a treble on Billboard’s main singles chart, the Hot 100.
The album’s title songs – Super Shy, ETA and Cool With You – were ranked No. 48, No. 81 and No. 93 respectively, making NewJeans the first K-pop girl group to place three songs from a single album on the Hot 100 at once.
Boy band BTS, the world’s biggest K-pop group, were the only South Korean artistes to achieve the feat prior.
NewJeans also made several advances on the Hot 100. Super Shy, released on July 6, entered the chart at No. 66 and climbed to No. 64 last week. Its current position at No. 48 is the highest reached so far by a NewJeans song.
Billboard 200 is a weekly rundown based on compiled data of physical album sales, with the individual tracks’ streaming counts converted and added to it.
Get Up, which has six songs, reached the top with the least number of tracks in Billboard 200’s history, its agency Ador said in a statement on Thursday.
NewJeans – comprising members Minji, Danielle, Hyein, Hyerin and Hanni, who are aged between 15 and 19 – debuted in July 2022 with their first EP, New Jeans.
Get Up was released on July 21 and garnered 1.65 million in sales in the first week, marking the second-highest girl group album sales in South Korea after Blackpink.
NewJeans are set to take the stage at prominent American music festival Lollapalooza Chicago on Thursday and will be the first South Korean female group to perform there. THE KOREA HERALD/ASIA NEWS NETWORK
