SEVENTEEN's 'Face the Sun' Becomes Group's Highest-Charting Album on Billboard 200
SEVENTEEN's "Face the Sun" has scored the group's highest peak on Billboard 200 to date!
Continue reading to know how high the album soared on the chart.
SEVENTEEN's 'Face the Sun' Attains Group's First-Ever Top 10 on Billboard 200
On June 12 local time, it was officially announced that SEVENTEEN's "Face the Sun" debuted inside the top 10 of Billboard 200, a weekly ranking of the most popular albums in the United States.
SEVENTEEN’s “Face the Sun” Attains Group’s First-Ever Top 10 on Billboard 200
In particular, "Face the Sun" debuted at No. 7 with 44,000 equivalent album units sold. This figure comprises 42,000 traditional album sales, 2,000 stream equivalent album (SEA) units - which equals to 2.71 million on-demand official streams of the album's songs.
This marks SEVENTEEN's first-ever top 10 on Billboard 200 and their highest position on the chart. It is also their third entry on the tally overall, after their 2021 mini-albums "Your Choice" and "Attacca," which peaked at No. 15 and 13, respectively.
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SEVENTEEN’s “Face the Sun” Attains Group’s First-Ever Top 10 on Billboard 200
In addition to that, SEVENTEEN is now the eighth K-pop boy group to ever enter the top 10 on Billboard 200, following BTS, SuperM, MONSTA X, NCT 127, NCT, TXT, and Stray Kids- as well as the 10th K-pop artist overall to achieve the feat (when BLACKPINK and TWICE is included).
As Billboard is yet to release the rankings of its other charts for this week, it remains to be seen whether SEVENTEEN's "Face the Sun" will enter more album charts and reach new heights for the group.
Congratulations to SEVENTEEN on their latest Billboard achievement!
SEVENTEEN's 'Face the Sun' Enters Oricon Chart + Group Scores New Peak on Spotify Monthly Listeners
In other news, SEVENTEEN's "Face the Sun" is also performing well in Japan. It debuted at No. 1 on Oricon's daily album chart (for June 10) after selling 297,031 copies in the country- almost thrice as much as the first-day sales of "Attacca" on Oricon (104,667 copies). With this, the studio album has now broken the group's first-day sales record on Oricon.
SEVENTEEN’s “Face the Sun” Attains Group’s First-Ever Top 10 on Billboard 200
What's more impressive is that "Face the Sun" ultimately surpassed SEVENTEEN's highest first-week sales record on Oricon. Their previous personal best is 247,278 copies sold by their 2020 mini-album "24H." This naturally means that "Face the Sun" has become the group's fastest album to sell 200,000 copies.
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SEVENTEEN's new title song "HOT" also previously reached the No. 1 spot on the daily chart of the Japanese streaming service Line Music, while "Face the Sun" topped Line Music's daily album chart for five days in a row after hitting No. 1 on the weekly album chart.
SEVENTEEN’s “Face the Sun” Attains Group’s First-Ever Top 10 on Billboard 200
Meanwhile, on Spotify, SEVENTEEN's monthly listeners have now surpassed five million. The group currently has a total of 5,018,506 monthly listeners, surpassing EXO as the third-generation boy group with the second-biggest listeners on the platform.
Additionally, SEVENTEEN becomes the ninth male K-pop artist overall to hit the five-million mark, following BTS, EXO, TXT, ENHYPEN, BTS RM, BTS Suga, BTS Jungkook, and BTS V.
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SEVENTEEN’s “Face the Sun” Attains Group’s First-Ever Top 10 on Billboard 200
The group's latest album "Face the Sun" exceeded 50 million streams on Spotify as of June 11. It only took the album only 15 days to reach the mark, becoming the group's fastest album to reach the milestone. At that time, all tracks had surpassed one million streams.
Among the new songs from "Face the Sun," "HOT" has the biggest number of streams, having more than 10 million streams as of June 11.
Watch SEVENTEEN's "HOT" music video here to celebrate the group's latest feats!
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Written by Maria Scott
