Changbin, Lee Know, Han, Felix, Bang Chan, Seungmin, I.N. and Hyunjin of Stray Kids at the 2023 MTV … [+]
Stray Kids rule over several Billboard charts this week with their new album Rock-Star. The set blasts onto a number of rankings with several hundred thousand units shifted, with most of those being purchases. The South Korean boy band’s new set was so massive, no other title stood a chance.
Rock-Star arrives at No. 1 on both the Billboard 200 and Top Album Sales charts, bringing the band back to the peak position on both lists. On the former, it starts with 224,000 equivalent units shifted. That sum includes 213,000 pure purchases.
With 213,000 copies sold, no other album in America could compete with Stray Kids’ Rock-Star. In fact, the set outsold the No. 2 bestseller in the country this week, Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version), more than three times over. Swift’s former No. 1 sold another 69,000 copies this past tracking frame.
Rock-Star was so huge, it outsold more than just the runner-up on this week’s Top Album Sales chart. The latest from Stray Kids actually sold so well, it outsold the next five highest-charting efforts on the tally—combined. That roundup includes titles from the likes of Jung Kook, Chris Stapleton, The Beatles, and the aforementioned Swift.
Rock-Star marks Stray Kids’ fourth No. 1 on both the Billboard 200 and Top Album Sales charts. It’s their second champion of 2023, following the immediate success of 5-Star, which conquered the lists in June. The band is now one of the most successful South Korean acts in U.S. history, based on their number of leaders on these rankings.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcintyre/2023/11/22/stray-kids-outsold-the-next-five-bestselling-albums-in-america-this-weekcombined/