Tomorrow X Collectively (TXT) have landed their first Quantity One spot on the Billboard 200 chart with their newest launch ‘The Title Chapter: Temptation’ – recording the most important US gross sales week for the reason that launch of Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’.
Billboard introduced Sunday (February 5) that the Okay-pop boyband’s newest report had debuted on the prime spot on the Billboard 200 for the week ending February 2. It knocked SZA’s album ‘SOS’, which had spent its first seven weeks at Number one, from the chart peak.
In line with information from Luminate (previously Nielsen Music), TXT’s five-track EP had offered roughly 161,500 equal album models, consisting of about 152,000 conventional album gross sales and 9,000 equal album streams. The latter determine, per Billboard, is equal to 13.24million on-demand audio streams over the course of the week.
‘The Title Chapter: Temptation’ additionally scored the most important U.S gross sales week for any album since Swift’s November 2022 LP ‘Midnights’ debuted at Quantity One on the Billboard 200 with 1.14 million copies offered. In line with Billboard, 98 per cent of gross sales from ‘The Title Chapter: Temptation’ had been CD gross sales, which had been issued in 14 collectible packages, together with unique editions offered by US chains similar to Barnes & Noble and Goal, in addition to the act’s webstore on Weverse.
With this, TXT are actually the fifth Okay-pop act to ever prime the Billboard 200, following BTS, SuperM, Stray Youngsters and BLACKPINK. In line with Soompi, the feat additionally makes the band the second Okay-pop act to ever chart seven completely different albums on the identical chart, after BTS. ‘The Title Chapter: Temptation’ is now their third report to chart within the High 5, after 2021’s ‘The Chaos Chapter: Freeze’ (which peaked at Quantity 5) and 2022’s ‘minisode 2: Thursday’s Baby’ (which peaked at Quantity 4). It additionally marks their seventh entry on the chart total.
Yesterday, it was revealed that TXT had additionally topped the Billboard Artist 100 chart for the primary time, making them the primary Okay-pop act to prime the chart – which is a “weekly multi-dimensional rating of artist recognition” – in 2023.
‘The Title Chapter: Temptation’ was launched late final month and was led by the title monitor ‘Sugar Rush Experience’, which options manufacturing credit from American singer-songwriter Salem Ilese and marks the group’s third collaboration with the artist. The album additionally featured ‘Pleased Fools’, a B-side which featured American rapper Coi Leray.
