K-Pop made waves in the United States in 2024 as the Korean girl group TWICE officially earned their first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 albums chart with "With YOU-th." It's the girl group's fifth foray on the Billboard 200 albums chart Top 10 and their first-ever No. 1 album.
TWICE 'With YOU-th' Billboard 200
TWICE's "With YOU-th" raked in 95,000 album-equivalent units on the Billboard 200 a week after the album dropped worldwide.
95% of the album's sales are physical, amounting to 90,000 sold nationwide. It topped the Top Album Sales chart, making the biggest sales week for any album in 2024.
Meanwhile, Streaming only powered 4,500 units last week, which equaled 6.33 million official streams. Track units are sparse, with 500.
Billboard and Forbes reported that the album sales for TWICE's "With YOU-th" were bolstered by its availability on 14 CD variants, which contained "branded paper merchandise," randomized elements, and three Vinyl variants.
To date, "With YOU-th" becomes the 24th "mostly non-English language album" to claim the No. 1 spot of the genre-blending albums chart, and the first one to do so in 2024.
Notably, TWICE is the third girl group to top the Billboard 200. BLACKPINK and NewJeans were the first two to top the chart with "BORN PINK" and "Get Up," respectively
"Ready To Be," the preceding album before "With YOU-th," only landed No. 2 in 2023. "Between 1&2" in 2022 landed at No. 3, while "Taste of Love" peaked at No. 6 in 2021. "More & More" only landed at the edge of the Billboard 200 albums chart in 2020 at No. 200.
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Billboard 200 Top 10
Meanwhile, Morgan Wallen's "One Thing At A Time" returned to No. 2 with a staggering 67,000 album units. Kanye West and Ty Dolla Sign's controversial album "Vultures 1" fell to No. 3 with 64,000 units. (via Billboard)
Noah Kahan holds down the fort with "Stick Season" at No. 4, along with SZA's "SOS" at No. 5. Drake's last album, "For All The Dogs," climbed to No. 6, while Taylor Swift's "1989 (Taylor's Version)" dropped a spot down to No. 7.
LE SSERAFIM's "Easy" debuted at No. 8 on the charts, their highest placement so far. Swift's "Lover" fell to No. 9 this week, and 21 Savage's former No. 1 "American Dream" rounds the Top 10 with a steady hold.
