Stray Kids ring up their second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 — and second of 2022 — as MAXIDENT debuts atop the record (dated Oct. 22). The eight observe set bows with 117,000 equal album models earned within the U.S. within the week ending Oct. 13, in response to Luminate. The South Korean group notched its first chart-topper on the April 2 record, with its first charting effort, ODDINARY.
Each ODDINARY and MAXIDENT have been launched through JYP/Imperial/Republic Data.
Maxident is the fourth album by a South Korean act to guide the Billboard 200 in 2022, following BLACKPINK’s Born Pink, BTS’ Proof and ODDINARY. In 2021, there have been zero No. 1s by a South Korean act, and in 2020 there have been two (BTS’ Map of the Soul: 7 and BE).
Additionally within the prime 10 of the brand new Billboard 200, Takeoff and Quavo’s collaborative album, Solely Constructed for Infinity Hyperlinks, debuts at No. 7, G Herbo’s Survivor’s Regret: Aspect A bows at No. 9, and Charlie Puth’s Charlie debuts at No. 10.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most well-liked albums of the week within the U.S. based mostly on multi-metric consumption as measured in equal album models, compiled by Luminate. Items comprise album gross sales, observe equal albums (TEA) and streaming equal 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 official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The brand new Oct. 22, 2022-dated chart will probably be posted in full on Billboard‘s web site on Tuesday (Oct. 18). For all chart information, observe @billboard and @billboardcharts on each Twitter and Instagram.
Of MAXIDENT’s 117,000 equal album models earned, album gross sales comprise 110,000, SEA models comprise 7,000 (equaling 9.61 million on-demand official streams of the set’s eight tracks) and TEA models comprise a negligible sum.
MAXIDENT’s 110,000 offered marks the fourth-largest gross sales week of any album in 2022. Of that sum, 97% have been CD gross sales (107,000), whereas 3% have been digital album gross sales (3,000). The set was not obtainable in another configuration (resembling vinyl LP or cassette).
The CD configuration of the album was issued in collectible packages (10 complete, together with unique variants for Barnes & Noble, Goal and the group’s official webstore), every with an ordinary set of inner paper objects and randomized parts (resembling photocards, mini posters and stickers). CD gross sales have been additionally aided by autographed editions offered through the act’s webstore.
MAXIDENT bows at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 solely six months and three weeks after ODDINARY opened atop the record. The final act with a shorter wait between new No. 1s was Young Thug, with six months between the Younger Stoner Life: Slime Language 2 (credited on the chart to Younger Thug & Numerous Artists; Could 1, 2021, chart) and Punk (Oct. 30, 2021). The final act with a shorter wait between No. 1s excluding these co-billed with a forged of assorted artists was Taylor Swift, who waited a extra scant 4 months between the primary weeks at No. 1 for Evermore (Dec. 26, 2020) and Fearless (Taylor’s Model) (April 24, 2021). The final group to have a shorter wait between No. 1s was BTS, with simply three months and one week between its first two No. 1s: Love Your self: Tear (June 2, 2018) and Love Your self: Reply (Sept. 8, 2018).
ODDINARY and MAXIDENT are Stray Kids’ first two albums to chart on the Billboard 200. Thus, the group maintains an ideal report on the record, touchdown No. 1 albums with its first two entries. Stray Youngsters made their general Billboard chart debut in 2017 on the World Digital Song Sales chart (which ranks the week’s top-selling world music digital songs) and landed their first entry on a Billboard album chart in 2018 with Mixtape. In 2018-21, the act amassed 10 prime 10-charting albums on Billboard‘s World Albums chart (which ranks the week’s hottest world music titles). Stray Youngsters didn’t attain the all-genre Billboard 200 with any launch till this April with ODDINARY, which marked the act’s first launch within the U.S. by JYP’s partnership with Imperial/Republic.
MAXIDENT is usually within the Korean language, however features a honest quantity of English lyrics. Notably, itis the sixteenth principally non-English language album to hit No. 1 and the fourth in 2022. Earlier within the yr, there have been principally non-English No. 1s from BTS’ mostly-Korean Proof, Bad Bunny’s all-Spanish Un Verano Sin Ti and the mostly-Korean ODDINARY.
Whereas Stray Youngsters have but to chart a track on the U.S.-based Billboard Hot 100 chart (by probably the most lately printed record, dated Oct. 15), the group has notched a trio of songs on the Billboard Global 200 and 6 on the Billboard Global 200 Excl. U.S. tally. The act final charted on each lists with the ODDINARY single “Maniac,” peaking at Nos. 21 and 15, respectively.
Unhealthy Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti falls to No. 2 on the Billboard 200 after 13 nonconsecutive weeks atop the record (76,000 equal album models earned; down 9%).
Beyoncé’s former No. 1 Renaissance rallies 6-3 with 75,000 equal album models (up 145%) after the broad launch of its vinyl album on Oct. 7.
Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping Harmful: The Double Album dips 3-4 on the Billboard 200 with 46,000 equal album models earned (down lower than 1%).
Harmful: The Double Album has now amassed 91 nonconsecutive weeks within the prime 10 on the Billboard 200. It now solely has the fifth-most weeks within the prime 10 amongst all albums because the chart started publishing on an everyday, weekly foundation in March of 1956. The all-time prime 10 record-holder is the unique forged recording of My Truthful Girl, with 173 weeks within the prime 10 between 1956-60. See record, beneath.
Albums With Most Weeks in High 10 on Billboard 200 Chart (March 24, 1956-onwards):
Weeks in High 10, Artist, Title, 12 months First Reached High 10
173, Authentic Forged, My Truthful Girl, 1956
109, Soundtrack, The Sound of Music, 1965
106, Soundtrack, West Aspect Story, 1962
105, Authentic Forged, The Sound of Music, 1960
91, Morgan Wallen, Harmful: The Double Album, 2021
90, Soundtrack, South Pacific, 1958
87, Authentic Forged, Camelot, 1961
87, Soundtrack, Oklahoma!, 1956
85, Peter, Paul and Mary, Peter Paul and Mary, 1962
84, Adele, 21, 2011
84, Bruce Springsteen, Born in the united statesA., 1984
(by the Oct. 22, 2022-dated chart)
The Weeknd’s compilation The Highlights falls 4-5 on the Billboard 200 with 40,000 equal album models earned (up 1%), whereas Harry Styles’ former chief Harry’s Home strikes 5-6 with 34,000 (down 1%).
Takeoff and Quavo’s collaborative set, Solely Constructed for Infinity Hyperlinks, bows at No. 7 with 33,500 equal album models earned. Of that sum, SEA models comprise 31,000 (equaling 41.13 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 18 tracks), album gross sales comprise 2,000 and TEA models comprise 500. It’s the second prime 10-charting set for Takeoff (following The Final Rocket, No. 4 in 2018) and the second for Quavo (after Quavo Huncho, No. 2, additionally in 2018).
Takeoff and Quavo additionally comprise two-thirds of Migos, which logged three prime 10s, together with a pair of No. 1s in Tradition and Tradition II (in 2017 and 2018, respectively). Migos’ third member, Offset, is due to launch a solo album on Nov. 11. He’s beforehand logged two prime 10s on the Billboard 200 (With out Warning, with 21 Savage and Metro Boomin, No. 4 in 2017; and Father of 4, No. 4 in 2019). As for Migos, the act is on an indefinite hiatus.
Zach Bryan’s American Heartbreak is pushed down 7-8 on the Billboard 200 regardless of a 1% acquire (to twenty-eight,000 equal album models).
G Herbo notches his third prime 10 album on the Billboard 200 with the No. 9 debut of Survivor’s Regret: Aspect A, which launches with 27,500 equal album models earned. Of that sum, SEA models comprise 27,000 (equaling 36.44 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks), album gross sales comprise 500 models and TEA models comprise a negligible sum. The mission was initially launched as a 12-track normal album on Oct. 7, and was reissued in a deluxe kind on Oct. 10 with 13 extra tracks (dubbed Survivor’s Regret: Aspect A & Aspect B).
Charlie Puth rounds out the highest 10 of the brand new Billboard 200 together with his third full-length album, Charlie, which bows at No. 10. All three of his full-length studio initiatives have debuted within the prime 10. The brand new set begins with 26,500 equal album models earned, of which SEA models comprise 16,000 (equaling 21.26 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 12 tracks), album gross sales comprise 9,500 and TEA models comprise 1,000.
Charlie was preceded by a pair of prime 30-charting hits on the Billboard Sizzling 100: “Mild Swap” and “Left and Proper,” the latter that includes Jung Kook (of BTS).
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