This week on the music charts, Ateez turns into the most recent Ok-pop act to attain the highest album with a menu of collectible packages, whereas Brenda Lee’s 65-year-old chestnut “Rockin’ Across the Christmas Tree” holds because the No. 1 single on her 79th birthday.
Ateez, an eight-member boy band from South Korea, notches its first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart with “The World EP.Fin: Will,” which had the equal of 152,000 gross sales in the USA, in response to the monitoring service Luminate. The overwhelming majority had been for bodily copies of the 12-track launch, which was accessible in 33 collectible variations, together with 26 on CD and 7 on vinyl.
Ateez’s album is the fifth one by a Ok-pop group to prime the LP chart this yr, after releases by Tomorrow X Collectively, NewJeans and Stray Children, which had two titles attain No. 1. In every case, bodily copies had been key to their success, however Ateez had notably low recognition on streaming providers, with simply 7.6 million clicks — the least for any No. 1 album this yr.
Additionally this week, Taylor Swift’s “1989 (Taylor’s Model),” which topped final week’s chart, falls to No. 2; Drake’s “For All of the Canine” is No. 3; Morgan Wallen’s “One Factor at a Time” is No. 4; and Michael Bublé’s “Christmas” — a chart hit every vacation season since 2011 — is in fifth place.
On the Sizzling 100 singles chart, Lee’s “Rockin’ Across the Christmas Tree” holds at No. 1 for a second week, whereas Mariah Carey’s “All I Need for Christmas Is You” stays at second place.
