[Kpop Planet News] Stray Kids Secure Top Positions On Billboard For Three Consecutive Weeks
Stray Kids continues to dominate the Billboard main charts this week!
According to the recent announcement on Billboard's official website, Stray Kids clinched No.11 on the Billboard 200 and Artists 100 charts for the week of December 9 with their latest mini album "ROCK-STAR", marking their third consecutive weeks in both charts.
Earlier on November 25, their previous albums "5-STAR", "MAXIDENT", and "ODDINARY" have also claimed top spots on the Billboard 200, showcasing the group's unwavering popularity in the United States.
"ROCK-STAR" has claimed and remained at top positions across eight categories on Billboard since its release on November 10, including No.1 on the World Albums chart, 2nd place on Top Album Sales and Top Current Album Sales, and 6th place on World Digital Song Sales.
Stray Kids is now the only 4th generation K-pop boy group to enter the top 100 of all three major Billboard charts (Billboard Hot 100, Billboard 200, Artists 100) as the title track of the album "LALALALA" entered Hot 100 at 90th place. The song also took No. 57 on Billboard’s Global Excl. U.S. chart and No. 94 on the Global 200, spending its third week on both charts.
Apart from conquering major Billboard charts, "ROCK-STAR" has achieved double million-selling status in just two days after its release. It also claimed top spots on Hanteo Chart's weekly and November monthly physical album chart, as well as the highest position in Circle Chart's monthly retail album chart, which records the sales of offline album store sales.
Meanwhile, the album has also garnered significant success on the global music streaming platform Spotify, that it surpassed 100 million streams globally within less than a month since its release.
Stray Kids also achieved the highest performance among 4th generation K-pop boy groups in various categories in Spotify's 2023 Wrapped year-end summary chart, that they secured No.5 in the Top 10 Most-Streamed K-pop Artists, No.16 in Top Groups of 2023 (Most-Streamed Group Playlists), and No.40 in Top Groups Canada.
Congratulations to Stray Kids for the incredible Billboard rankings and album sales, and let's wish them even greater success next year! Don't forget to get Stray Kid's 2024 Season's Greetings as well!