The group Aéez won the second official ** "The World Ep.".Fin: Will was ranked No. 1 on the main Billboard 200 list.
According to the chart preview article released on the 10th (local time), ATEEZ's second ** reached the top of the charts, beating out famous ** such as Taylor Swift's "1989" (Taylor's version) and Drake's "For All the Dogs" to reach the top of the charts.
Billboard 200 adds the sales volume of traditional sales such as physical sales, the number of streams converted into sales (SEA), and the number of sales volume (tea) to calculate the consumption ranking. During this statistical period, the sales volume (units) of the second ATEEZ was equivalent to 152,000 sheets.
Among them, the sales of **, including CDs and digital ***, accounted for 1460,000 sheets. 5,500 for SEA and 500 for TEA. According to Billboard, "The World Episode Final: Will was mostly written in Korean," and "this is the 23rd Billboard 200 No. 1 album and the 7th non-English No. 1 album this year," Ateez has reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 charts for the first time. K-pop** groups include BTS, SuperM, Stray Kids, Blackpink, and Ateez in particular was the first team to rank first on this list, as a team from small brokerage firms, rather than from the so-called Big Four brokerages such as HIVE, SM, YG, and JYP. ATEEZ debuted in October 2018 and the team's name means "We're going to capture everything about teenagers." Subsequently, they composed a unique narrative with the series "Treasure", "Fever", and "The World". Their strong performances are their strength, and their global popularity has skyrocketed, and the world tour, which began in October last year, not only in South Korea, but also in Asia, Europe, North and South America, gathered 400,000 people. The previous work "The World EP." released in June last year2: Outlaw sold 1.52 million copies in its first week of release, ranking second on the US "Billboard 200" chart and second on the official UK ** list "Top 100". "Ranked tenth. ATEEZ is the second boy group after BTS to enter both rankings. This regular 2nd series is the first regular ** to be released in about 4 years since the regular 1st series in 2019. It includes 12 songs including the title song "Crazy Form", "We Know", "Emergency", "Silver Light", and "Dream Day". This has previously topped the UK's official "Top 100" rankings, which are known as one of the world's two largest charts along with the US billboard. At the commemorative launch event of the second ** release held on the 1st, Hiroka of Ateez expressed his wishes, saying, "I didn't think about the billboard rankings or my career when I did this. ”
SAND members also said at the event, "If we act as if today is the last day, we believe that people all over the world will recognize us." We're going to make next year the year of proof. Everyone will understand (our popularity) and everyone's mouth. "It will be heard. We're going to get better results and get the name Ateez ......to be recognized. ”