'Love Yourself: Her' Debuts At No. 7 On Billboard 200
Date: September 24, 2017
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BTS’s Love Yourself: Her debuts at No. 7 on the Billboard 200, becoming the highest-charting album by a K-pop act on the Billboard chart! It beats the previous record held by Wings, which peaked at No. 26 in October 2016.
Love Yourself: Her also recorded the highest sales week for any K-pop album, selling 31,000 equivalent album units, of which 18,000 were in pure album sales.
Congratulations BTS and ARMY!
BTS earns both the highest-charting album ever on the Billboard 200 by a K-pop act, and the genre’s biggest sales week. The group beats its own record, as the act’s 2016 album, Wings, was previously both the highest-charting K-pop album (debut and peak at No. 26 on the Oct. 29, 2016-dated list) and owner of the biggest sales week for a K-pop title (11,000 copies sold in its debut frame — all from digital albums). Notably, Wings and Love Yourself: Her are the only K-pop albums that have charted in the top 40.
— Billboard