Korean Girl Group Aespa has become the only girl group to reach the top of Billboard's World Albums Chart this year, while other Korean acts also dominated the list like BTS, BLACKPINK, TXT, Stray Kids, and SEVENTEEN etc.
Aespa's new mini album Girlsentered Top Album Sales chart and the Top Current Album Sales chart at No. 1, making them the first female K-pop act in history to enter either charts since they only debuted 2-years back, on November 17, 2020.
Meanwhile four albums of BTS landed in World Albums Chart this week. Their recent anthology album remained steadfast in its fifth consecutive week.
BTS’Love Yourself: Hercame in at No. 10 in its 171st week on the World Albums chart, followed by Map of the Soul: 7at No. 12 (in its 125th week) and Love Yourself: Tearat No. 13 (in its 194th week).
Twice’s Nayeon’s solo debut mini album IM NAYEONranked No.4 in its third week and also became the first album of any K-pop soloist in history to spend three weeks on the Billboard 200.
TXT’s two albums minisode 2: Thursday’s Childand The Chaos Chapter: Freezelanded in Top 15 of this week’s World Albums Chart.
SEVENTEEN’s studio album Face the Sun, ranked sixth on this week’s chart.
Stray Kids’ ODDINARYstayed strong in No. 9 in its 16th non-consecutive week on the chart , while BLACKPINK’s The Albumcame in No.11 in its 93rd consecutive week.