BTS’ “Love Yourself: Tear” becomes first K-Pop album to top the US Billboard 200 Album charts

The Korean boy band BTS debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with their latest album “Love Yourself: Tear”.

According to Billboard:

Love Yourself: Tear’s first-week sum is a bit bigger than expected. On May 21, some industry forecasters predicted the album would bow with over 100,000 units. By May 24, that forecast grew to over 120,000.

Of Love Yourself: Tear’s starting sum of 135,000 units, 100,000 were in traditional album sales, 26,000 were in SEA units (equaling 39.1 million on-demand audio streams for songs on the albums) and 9,000 TEA units.

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