There’s really no way but up for rising K-pop girl group NewJeans!
Billboard announced on Wednesday, August 2, that NewJeans’ second EP Get Up topped the Billboard 200 chart, dated August 5.
.@NewJeans_ADOR Score First No. 1 Album on #Billboard200 With ‘2nd EP ‘Get Up” https://t.co/ZcNIQOjtFN
— billboard (@billboard) August 2, 2023
This marks the first time for NewJeans to enter the Billboard 200 chart. Said chart is known to rank the most popular albums and EPs in the United States per week.
And the quintet reached the feat in just a year since their July 2022 debut. Impressive, right?
Additionally, NewJeans is only the second female K-pop act to land on the top spot of the Billboard 200, following BLACKPINK.
Including the male artists, NewJeans is the sixth K-pop act to achieve the milestone. Only K-pop acts BTS, SuperM, Stray Kids, BLACKPINK, and TXT have earlier placed first with their releases.
Moreover, NewJeans’ Get Up and BLACKPINK’s Born Pink album are the only two albums by an all-female act to hit the No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart in the past 15 years.
NewJeans’ record
The Billboard 200 ranking is based on “multi-metric consumption” as measured in album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming equivalent albums.
According to the US-based songs chart, Get Up garnered 126,500 equivalent album units. Majority of the sales during its first tracking week were driven by album sales.
Billboard 200: #1(new) NewJeans (@NewJeans_ADOR), Get Up 126,500 [34.39 million on-demand streams | 101,500 pure sales].
— chart data (@chartdata) August 2, 2023
Get Up is now placed as the second album by a K-pop girl group that had the biggest album debut in Billboard 200 history.
Biggest album debuts by K-Pop Girl Groups in Billboard 200 history:
1️⃣ Ready To Be – #TWICE — 153K
2️⃣ GET UP – #NewJeans — 126.5k
3️⃣ THE ALBUM – #BLACKPINK — 110K
4️⃣ BORN PINK – #BLACKPINK — 102K
5️⃣ Between 1&2 – #TWICE — 100K
6️⃣ Formula of Love O+T=<3 – #TWICE — 66K
7️⃣… pic.twitter.com/3NDKuZQZmC— World Music Awards (@WORLDMUSICAWARD) August 3, 2023
Meanwhile, the Barbie film soundtrack and Morgan Wallen’s One Thing At A Time are in second and third place, respectively.
Get Up, which has six songs, was released on July 21. “ETA,” “Super Shy,” and “Cool With You” are the album’s triple title tracks.
NewJeans is composed of Minji, Hanni, Hyein, Haerin, and Danielle. It is a group under ADOR, the HYBE sub-label headed by Min Hee-jin.
Featured image: NewJeans poses for a behind cut of their Jeans Zine. Credit: Facebook/NewJeans