Stray Kids' '5-STAR' Spends 2nd Consecutive Week on Billboard 200's Top 10
Stray Kids' full-length album "★★★★★ (5-STAR)" has made its second consecutive week on Billboard 200's Top 10, making it a first for the group.
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Stray Kids' '★★★★★ (5-STAR)' Spends 2nd Week on Billboard 200's Top 10
On June 18, Stray Kids' third full-length album "★★★★★ (5-STAR)" has maintained its position at the top 10 of Billboard 200, spending its second consecutive week.
This achievement earned Stray Kids their first-ever album to land a top-10 ranking release on Billboard 200. Among male K-pop artists, they are also the third to place an album for more than one week on Billboard 200's top 10, trailing BTS and TXT in the achievement.
Luminate stated that "★★★★★ (5-STAR)" had gathered 53,000 equivalent album units during the week ending on June 15 in the US.
"★★★★★ (5-STAR)" made its first entry on Billboard's Top 200 Albums on June 11, local time, earning its spot at No. 1. The album is now their third album to secure the top spot, joining their previous releases "ODDINARY," and "MAXIDENT."
This also led Stray Kids to become the first-ever artist since Harry Styles to achieve the feat and has followed BTS as the second K-pop act to secure Billboard 200's top 1 more than once. For the week ending on June 8, Luminate stated "★★★★★ (5-STAR)" had earned a total of 249,500 equivalent album units.
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The album also accumulated 235,000 traditional album sales, which set a record for the highest sales week in the United States since Taylor Swift's "Midnights."
Furthermore, "★★★★★ (5-STAR)" also managed to gain 14,000 streaming equivalent album (SEA) units, 19.55 million on-demand audio streams, and 500 track equivalent album (TEA) units on its first week.
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Outside of Billboard, Stray Kids also accomplished feats on Hanteo with "★★★★★ (5-STAR)." On June 9, Hanteo announced the album had set a new record for first-week sales by bagging 4,617,499 album copies from June 2 to 8.
Stray Kids surpassed their own previous album "MAXIDENT," which attained 2,163,349 copies, and the 4,500,214 copies earned by SEVENTEEN's 10th mini album "FML" from April 24 to 30.
Before it was released on June 2, "★★★★★ (5-STAR)" was already gaining momentum due to its pre-orders. On May 30, the album became the most pre-ordered album ever in K-pop history by having exceeded 4.93 million stock pre-orders.
They also surpassed SEVENTEEN, who made a historic achievement with 4.64 million pre-orders for mini album "FML." Meanwhile, its title track "S-Class" was also released on June 2, delivering another bop of a track for fandom STAYs. As of June 19, the MV currently harbors 56,528,684 (million) views on YouTube.
Congratulations to Stray Kids for this achievement!
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