official chart B200: Stray Kids #1 187k

[Renan90]

 

Stray Kids Score Sixth No. 1 on Billboard 200 With 'HOP'

Plus: Mariah Carey's 'Merry Christmas' returns to the top 10.

 

Stray Kids score their sixth No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart as HOP debuts atop the list dated Dec. 28. It's the sixth leader for the group, making the pop ensemble the first act to debut at No. 1 with its first six chart entries in the nearly 69-year history of the chart. The Billboard 200 began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in March 1956.

 

Stray Kids previously opened atop the chart with ODDINARY and MAXIDENT (both in 2022), ROCK-STAR and 5-STAR (both in 2023) and ATE (earlier in 2024).

 

Further, with a sixth No. 1, Stray Kids tie BTS, Linkin Park and Dave Matthews Band for the most No. 1s among groups on the Billboard 200 in this century (since 2000).

 

HOP arrives with 187,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Dec. 19, according to Luminate, largely driven by traditional album sales.

 

Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200, Mariah Carey's Merry Christmas jingles back to the top 10 for a seventh consecutive holiday season, as the 1994 release climbs 14-10. The set, which contains the Billboard Hot 100-topping "All I Want for Christmas Is You," peaked at No. 3 in 1994.

 

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold 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 new Dec. 28, 2024-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard's website on Tuesday, Dec. 24. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

 

https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/stray-kids-hop-billboard-200-number-one-1235864024/

Edited 11 hours ago by Renan90

[Pluto6]

Kings!!!!!! 

Edited 12 hours ago by Pluto6

[Green]

They have 6 #1 albums???   

[Renan90]

https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/stray-kids-hop-billboard-200-number-one-1235864024/

[Renan90]

 

[Katamari]

Bigger than bts confirmed  

[Pluto6]

They might break the tie with their next album next year 

Edited 11 hours ago by Pluto6

[Pluto6]

29 minutes ago, Green said:

They have 6 #1 albums???   

Yes, ever since 2022, they have been getting 2 #1 albums yearly 

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[fridayteenage]

taylor and Sabrina still top 4 together

[iamanearthling]

Who????

[iHype.]

Absolute nobodies just ranking up these forgettable #1 albums that chart for like 5 weeks total 

 

Why couldn't Taylor come in handy this one time and how does nearly every other K-Pop artist get bad timing and blocked during release weeks but they seemingly never do

[Loca]

Quote

 Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department falls 1-3 (85,000; down 65%)

[itshyolee]

6 minutes ago, iHype. said:

Absolute nobodies just ranking up these forgettable #1 albums that chart for like 5 weeks total 

[Mitsuki]

1 hour ago, Pluto6 said:

They might break the tie with their next album next year 

Legends 

7th #1 is coming in 2025 

 

 

 

[Pluto6]

32 minutes ago, iHype. said:

Absolute nobodies just ranking up these forgettable #1 albums that chart for like 5 weeks total 

 

Why couldn't Taylor come in handy this one time and how does nearly every other K-Pop artist get bad timing and blocked during release weeks but they seemingly never do

Cause they actually debut with high numbers + they are technically also label mates with Taylor

 

Now cry more

[Mitsuki]

Interesting

 

[Pluto6]

53 minutes ago, Mitsuki said:

Interesting

 

6/18 of those Korean #1 albums being from Stray Kids 

 

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Btw, it's interesting how K-pop has become so global compared to J-Pop for example, especially considering how much of K-Pop was inspired by the J-pop industry. It makes me wonder if Japan had been more open with copyright and truly focused on promoting their music internationally like Korea did with K-pop, would J-pop have taken the same global route? Like Japan already has Anime which is way bigger than Kpop (Pokemon alone clears), but imagine if they actually spread J-Pop globally as well? 

 

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[Alldeezy]

Making history our kings

[Mitsuki]

15 minutes ago, Pluto6 said:

6 of those Korean #1 albums being from SKZ 

 

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Btw, it's interesting how K-pop has become so global compared to J-Pop for example, especially considering how much of K-Pop was inspired by the J-pop industry. It makes me wonder if Japan had been more open with copyright and truly focused on promoting their music internationally like Korea did with K-pop, would J-pop have taken the same global route? Like Japan already has Anime which is way bigger than Kpop (Pokemon alone clears), but imagine if they actually spread J-Pop globally as well? 

 

K-pop has always been more paletable internationally than J-pop on It's purest form, because since the beginning It also had bigger western influence on It combined with J-pop influence. And as K-pop agencies became more interested to promote globally, more evident the western influence was. 

 

To be honest, Japanese artists don't even make an effort to promote globally and expanding, because they simply don't need to, their entertainment industry is massive. Japan is the second biggest music market by revenue in the world. 

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[on the line]

4 hours ago, Green said:

They have 6 #1 albums???   

Literally never heard of it. Is this like stray dogs and cats? People just adopt them more around the holidays?

 

 

[stars]

K-pop truly is a bubble. 6 #1 debuts yet the albums aren't making any noise 

[IBeMe]

they deserve it tbh. so talented and handsome