K-pop girl group TWICE achieved their first ever No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 chart with their new mini-album “With YOU-th.”
The album, released on Feb. 23, debuted at No. 1 on the March 9-dated Billboard 200 chart “with 95,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 29, according to Luminate, largely from traditional album sales. It’s the fifth top 10 for the Korean pop ensemble in total, all earned consecutively,” Billboard reported.
TWICE (JYP Entertainment)
“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,” it added.
Of the 95,000 units earned by “With YOU-th,” the “album sales comprise 90,000 (it’s the top-selling album of the week, as it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales; it’s also the largest sales week for an album in 2024), SEA units comprise 4,500 (equaling 6.33 million official on-demand streams of the set’s six songs) and TEA units comprise 500.”
“As With YOU-th is mostly in the Korean language, it is the 24th mostly non-English language album to hit No. 1, and the first of 2024,” according to Billboard. This is TWICE’s first No. 1 album on Billboard 200 in over eight years since their debut in 2015 and extends their own record for the most top 10 albums on the chart for a female K-Pop act with five.
Next month, TWICE will be heading to Las Vegas for a one-night-only encore performance of their fifth world tour "Ready To Be” in the US–“Ready To Be Once More”--at Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium on March 16. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased HERE.
