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Stray Kids & Jimin Debut at Nos. 1 & 2 on Billboard 200 — K-Pop Has Top Two Albums for First Time


Stray Kids and BTS' Jimin debut at Nos. 1 and 2 on the Billboard 200 albums chart -- marking the first week K-pop has the top two albums.

K-pop superstars Stray Kids and Jimin make a splash atop the Billboard 200(dated Aug. 3), as the acts’ latest albums, ATE and MUSE, debut at Nos. 4 with 74,000 units (down 9%); Zach Bryan’s The Great American Bar Scene slips 3-5 with 71,000 (down 19%); and Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Thing at a Time dips 5-6 with 65,000 (down 2%). The Twisters album features a wealth of new original material from country stars including Luke Combs, Jelly Roll, Miranda Lambert and Lainey Wilson, and was preceded by three charting hits on the Hot Country Songs chart (Combs’ “Ain’t No Love In Oklahoma,” Bailey Zimmerman’s “Hell or High Water” and Tyler Childers’ “Song While You’re Away”).

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