Ateez Matches BTS And Seventeen’s Records

Ateez came very, very close to scoring a new No. 1 album in America this week. The K-pop boy band’s latest EP, Golden Hour: Part 3, opens in the runner-up spot on the Billboard 200, which ranks as the most consumed project in the nation during the prior tracking frame. While it doesn’t give the South Korean superstars another chart-topper, the set does help Ateez tie two of the most successful names to ever emerge from the K-pop scene.

Ateez Ties BTS and Seventeen

Thanks to the arrival of Golden Hour: Part 3, Ateez has now collected seven top 10 wins on the Billboard 200. With one more appearance inside that region, the band matches both BTS and Seventeen for the most appearances in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 among K-pop acts.

Ateez’s Seven Top 10 Albums

Included among Ateez’s seven top 10s are a pair of leaders. The group first hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in December 2023 with The World EP.Fin: Will, then returned to the summit less than a year later in late 2024 with Golden Hour: Part 2. Ateez has also stalled in second place on the Billboard 200 with three titles, including its most recent release.

BTS Vs. Seventeen

Seventeen and BTS may be tied with Ateez for the most top 10s on the Billboard 200 among K-pop boy bands, but the journeys the two acts took to that number are quite different. Six of BTS’s seven top 10 efforts have reached No. 1, while Seventeen has yet to conquer the ranking.

Golden Hour: Part 3 Debuts With a Huge First-Week Number

Golden Hour: Part 3 launches with 105,000 equivalent units shifted, according to Luminate. That sum includes 101,500 pure purchases, easily making it the bestselling album in America this week, if not quite the most consumed.

That honor still belongs to One Thing at a Time by Morgan Wallen, which earns its fifth consecutive stay atop the Billboard 200 – and it’s about to hold on for a sixth. If Ateez had released this EP during almost any other tracking period, the group would have had a better shot at a third ruler, but the country singer-songwriter’s latest effort is simply too popular to beat at the moment.

Ateez Passes Enhypen, Stray Kids, TXT and Twice

Before this week, Ateez was tied with four other K-pop acts, each boasting half a dozen top 10s on the Billboard 200. Now, Ateez has passed Enhypen, Stray Kids, Tomorrow X Together and Twice — though any of those names could score another big win in America sometime soon, as all remain active and hugely popular.