TWICE Scores First Number One Album on Billboard 200 with ‘With YOU-th’

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TWICE achieves its first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as With Youth debuts at the top of the tally (dated March 9) with 95,000 equivalent album units earned in the US in the week ending February 29, according to Luminate, largely thanks to traditional album sales . It is the Korean pop group’s fifth top 10 in total, all obtained consecutively.

With you It is the third No. 1 on the Billboard 200 by an all-female group in less than three years. NewJeans was the last all-female group to reach the top with 2nd EP ‘Get Up’ (chart dated August 5, 2023) and were preceded by BLACKPINK with Born Pink (October 1, 2022). All three acts are Korean pop groups, their respective albums were their first number ones, and they all debuted at the top of the chart. Before BLACKPINK, the last all-female group to top the chart was American Danity Kane, with their second album, Welcome to the dollhousewhich was ranked number 1 on the list dated April 5, 2008.

Also in the top 10 of the new Billboard 200, all-female Korean pop group LE SSERAFIM debuts at No. 8 with Easymarking the act’s second top-10 effort.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the US based on multi-metric consumption measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. The units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA), and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit is equivalent to the sale of one album, or 10 individual tracks sold from one album, or 3,750 official ad-supported on-demand audio and video streams, or 1,250 payouts/subscriptions generated by songs from one album. The new chart dated March 9 will be published in full on BillboardMarch 5. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

Of With youOf the 95,000 units earned in the tracking week ending February 29, album sales comprise 90,000 (it is the best-selling album of the week, as it debuts at #1 on Top Album Sales; it is also the week highest sales for an album). in 2024), SEA units comprise 4,500 (equivalent to 6.33 million official on-demand streams of the six songs in the set) and TEA units comprise 500. Sales of With you were bolstered by their availability in 14 CD variants (including exclusives to Barnes & Noble, Target, Walmart, and the event’s web store, all with branded paper products inside the packs, as well as some random items) and three variants vinyl (all picture records, including a Target exclusive version).

As With you is primarily in the Korean language, it is the twenty-fourth mostly non-English language album to reach No. 1 and the first of 2024.

Morgan Wallen’s success One thing at a time up 3-2 with 67,000 equivalent album units earned (up 5%), while Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) and Ty Dolla $ign’s Vultures 1 falls 1-3 in its third week with 64,000 (a decrease of 14%). Noah Kahan stick season does not move in the number 4 position with 57,000 units (4% less), the former leader of SZA CALL FOR HELP is also stationary, at number 5, with 47,000 (an increase of 1%), the For all dogs up 8-6 with 43,000 (up 1%), and Taylor Swift’s former No. 1 1989 (Taylor version) falls 6-7 with 41,000 (a 7% decline).

LE SSERAFIM Easy begins at No. 8 with 41,000 equivalent album units earned, marking the second top 10 effort for the Korean pop group. The act already reached the top 10 with last year. unforgivabledebuting and reaching number 6. EasyOf the first week’s 41,000 units, album sales comprise 34,000, SEA units comprise 7,000 (equivalent to 9.86 million official on-demand streams of the five songs in the set), and TEA units equal a sum insignificant. Sales of Easy were helped by their availability in 14 CD variants (including exclusives to Barnes & Noble, Target, and Walmart, all with branded paper products within their packages, including some random ones).

With LE SSERAFIM and TWICE in the top 10 together, it is the first time that two all-female Korean pop groups have been in the top 10 at the same time. Additionally, the last time two all-female groups shared space in the top 10 was on the August 5, 2006 chart, when American country trio The Chicks were at No. 9 with Taking the long waywhile the American pop group Pussycat Dolls took tenth place with PCD.

Rounding out the top 10 of the new Billboard 200 are a pair of chart-topping outfits: Taylor Swift Lover falls 7-9 with 40,000 equivalent album units (down 8%) and 21 Savage’s American dream remains stable at number 10 with 38,000 units (an increase of 1%).

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