{"id":4080,"date":"2024-03-03T21:08:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T21:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4080"},"modified":"2024-03-03T21:08:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T21:08:06","slug":"twice-achieves-first-no-1-album-on-billboard-200-chart-with-with-you-th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4080","title":{"rendered":"TWICE Achieves First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart with \u2018With\u00a0YOU-th\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<script>\r\nif( document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ) ) document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ).insertAdjacentHTML( \"beforebegin\", \"<link rel='stylesheet' href='https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/wp-content\/themes\/themify-music\/themify\/themify-builder\/css\/themify-builder-style.css' type='text\/css' \/>\" );\r\n<\/script>\r\n\t\t\t\n<p>Plus: LE SSERAFIM claims second top 10 with arrival of &#8220;Easy.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/twice\">TWICE<\/a>\u00a0achieves its first No. 1 album on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>\u00a0chart as\u00a0<em>With<\/em>\u00a0<em>YOU-th<\/em>\u00a0debuts atop the tally (dated March 9) with 95,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 29, according to Luminate, largely from traditional album sales. It\u2019s the fifth top 10 for the Korean\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/pop\/\">pop<\/a>\u00a0ensemble in total, all earned consecutively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>With YOU-th<\/em>\u00a0is the first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 by an all-female group since BLACKPINK\u2019s\u00a0<em>Born Pink<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/blackpink-born-pink-number-one-debut-billboard-200-chart-1235144407\/\">opened<\/a>\u00a0at No. 1 in 2022, and only the third since 2008, when Danity Kane\u2019s\u00a0<em>Welcome to the Dollhouse<\/em>\u00a0debuted atop the list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also in the top 10 of the new Billboard 200, fellow all-female Korean pop group LE SSERAFIM debuts at No. 8 with&nbsp;<em>Easy<\/em>, marking the act\u2019s second top 10-charting effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>\u00a0chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on\u00a0multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid\/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new March 9-dated chart will be posted in full on\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2018s website on March 5. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of&nbsp;<em>With YOU-th<\/em>\u2019s 95,000 units earned in the tracking week ending Feb. 29, album sales comprise 90,000 (it\u2019s the top-selling album of the week, as it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales; it\u2019s also the largest sales week for an album in 2024), SEA units comprise 4,500 (equaling 6.33 million official on-demand streams of the set\u2019s six songs) and TEA units comprise 500. Sales of&nbsp;<em>With YOU-th<\/em>&nbsp;were bolstered by its availability across 14 CD variants (including exclusives for Barnes &amp; Noble, Target, Walmart and the act\u2019s webstore, all with branded paper merchandise inside the packages as well as some randomized elements) and three vinyl variants (all picture discs, including one Target-exclusive version).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As\u00a0<em>With YOU-th<\/em>\u00a0is mostly in the Korean language, it is the 24th mostly non-English language album to hit No. 1, and the first of 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/morgan-wallen\/\">Morgan Wallen\u2019<\/a>s chart-topping&nbsp;<em>One Thing at a Time<\/em>&nbsp;climbs 3-2 with 67,000 equivalent album units earned (up 5%), while&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/kanye-west\/chart-history\/hsi\/\">Ye<\/a>&nbsp;(formerly known as Kanye West) and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/ty-dolla-ign\/\">Ty Dolla $ign<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Vultures 1<\/em>&nbsp;falls 1-3 in its third week with 64,000 (down 14%).&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/noah-kahan\/\">Noah Kahan<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Stick Season<\/em>&nbsp;is a non-mover at No. 4 with 57,000 units (down 4%),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/sza\/\">SZA<\/a>\u2019s former leader&nbsp;<em>SOS<\/em>&nbsp;is also stationary, at No. 5, with 47,000 (up 1%),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/drake\/\">Drake<\/a>\u2019s chart-topping&nbsp;<em>For All the Dogs<\/em>&nbsp;rises 8-6 with 43,000 (up 1%), and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/taylor-swift\/\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s former No. 1&nbsp;<em>1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)&nbsp;<\/em>dips 6-7 with 41,000 (down 7%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/le-sserafim\/\">LE SSERAFIM<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Easy<\/em>&nbsp;starts at No. 8 with 41,000 equivalent album units earned, marking the second top 10-charting effort for the pop group. The act previously hit the top 10 with last year\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Unforgiven<\/em>, debuting and peaking at No. 6. Of&nbsp;<em>Easy<\/em>\u2019s 41,000 first-week units, album sales comprise 34,000, SEA units comprise 7,000 (equaling 9.86 million official on-demand streams of the set\u2019s five songs) and TEA units equal a negligible sum. Sales of&nbsp;<em>Easy<\/em>&nbsp;were aided by its availability across 14 CD variants (including exclusives for Barnes &amp; Noble, Target and Walmart, all with branded paper merch inside their packages, including some randomized).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rounding out the top 10 of the new Billboard 200 are a pair of chart-topping sets: Taylor Swift\u2019s\u00a0<em>Lover<\/em>\u00a0falls 7-9 with 40,000 equivalent album units (down 8%) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/21-savage\/\">21 Savage<\/a>\u2018s\u00a0<em>American Dream<\/em>\u00a0is steady at No. 10 with 38,000 units (up 1%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4080\" data-postid=\"4080\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4080 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: LE SSERAFIM claims second top 10 with arrival of &#8220;Easy.&#8221; TWICE\u00a0achieves its first No. 1 album on the\u00a0Billboard 200\u00a0chart as\u00a0With\u00a0YOU-th\u00a0debuts atop the tally (dated March 9) with 95,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 29, according to Luminate, largely from traditional album sales. 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