Korean Superstar Group, Stray Kids, has landed atop the United World Chart with their amazing new Album 'Maxident', their 7th Korean EP and 10th overall, scoring massive equivalent sales of 803,000 just 7 months after their 9th EP 'Oddinary' debuted at #1 with 393,000 sales! In the United States, 'Maxident' debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200, becoming Stray Kids 2nd consecutive #1 album in the country, the only K-Pop Act to score 2x #1 albums in 2022! It's the 4th K-Pop album to top the BB200 this year, after their own 'Oddinary', BTS' 'Proof', and BLACKPINK's 'Born Pink'! 'Maxident' debuted at #1 in America with 117.000 equivalent units, 110,000 of which were pure sales becoming the fourth-largest sales week of any album in the US in 2022 at that time! 'Maxident' also topped Billboard Top Album Sales, Top Current Album Sales, and World Albums! Stray Kids rebound to #1 atop the Artist 100, becoming the 3rd K-Act to top the chart for multiple weeks after BTS & BLACKPINK. 'Maxident' also landed at #1 on Korea's Circle Album Chart, selling 1,602,930 copies in its first week of the two-day tracking period. It spent two consecutive weeks atop the chart with 736,394 copies on the 2nd week, and has sold 2,339,324 overall copies, becoming the first album by any of the label's artists to reach the double-million sales mark! All eight of the album's track entered the top 40 of the component Circle Download Chart simultaneously. The album hit #1 in Poland, #3 in Japan & Denmark, #4 in Australia becoming their 1st top 5 album, #5 in Belgium (Flanders) & Sweden, #6 in Finland, #8 in Lithuania, and #9 in New Zealand & Switzerland. The EP reached #43 in the UK!
Japanese legendary Singer, composer and pianist Yumi Matsutoya, the 2nd Best-selling Japanese recording-Act of All Time in Japan after Bz, lands at #2 on the United World Chart with her new best-of-compilation 'Yuming Banzai!' scoring 183,000 sales in is 1st week! The Album is currently #1 in Japan for a 2nd week!
The hugely popular Rookie Monster Group Treasure lands at #3 on this week's United World Chart with their latest smash hit 'The Second Step: Chapter Two' earning 146,000 equivalent sales. It's the follow up to their first extended play, The Second Step: Chapter One, which sold 700,000 copies in three days after its release.
Beyoncé's latest masterpiece 'Renaissance' rebounds 6-4 on the United World Chart, after landing at #1, earning another 113.000 equivalent units and 1.319.000 so far!
Bad Bunny's 'Un Verano Sin Ti' dips 2-5 in its 23rd week on the chart, after peaking at #1, and scores another 97,000 equivalent album units, replacing BTS atop the year-to-date chart for the first time with a total of 3,22 million units so far! It's the #1 most streamed album of the year!
Harry Styles' chart-topping 'Harry's House' dips 5-6 in its 21st week on the chart, selling another 77.000 equivalent units and 3.091.000 so far.
Red Velvet's Seulgi lands at #7 on the United World Chart with her amazing new album '28 Reasons' earning 77.000 equivalent units in her 1st week on the chart!
BLACKPINK's record-brealking album 'BORN PINK' scores a 4th week in the United World Top 10, earning other 65.000 equivalent album units and 1.154.000 so far after debuting at #1. It's the biggest debut of the year so far by a female act!
NCT 127's amazing album '2 Baddies' slips 7-9 in its 4th week on the chart, earning another 62.000 quivalent album units and 998.000 so far!
Charlie Puth's new album 'CHARLIE' lands at #10 this week with 60.000 equivalent units! It's Puth's first album in four years, after Voicenotes (2018), and his most personal. 'CHARLIE' was preceded by six singles: "Light Switch", "That's Hilarious", "Left and Right" his smash hit ft. featuring Jungkook of BTS, and "Smells Like Me", "I Don't Think That I Like Her" and "Charlie Be Quiet!". The Album has so far reached #5 in Austalia, #6 in New Zealand, #7 in Canada, #9 in the UK and #10 on the Billboard 200 in the US!
