Aespa’s new album “Girls” ranks No. 3 on the Billboard 200 album chart

K-pop girl group Aespa’s new album “Girls” appeared at No. 3 on the Billboard 200, their first opportunity to enter the top 10 on the chart. K-pop girl group aespa has snatched the No. 3 spot on Billboard’s fundamental album chart with its second smaller-than-expected album, “Girls,” the U.S. magazine said Sunday (local time).

This is the second-most elevated rank among all K-pop girl groups after BLACKPINK ranked second on a similar chart with its 2020 release, “The Album.”

This is the initial occasion when aespa has made it into the chart’s top 10. “Girls,” which emerged on July 8, procured 56,000 equivalent album units in the United States this week, Billboard added.

On July 17 nearby time, Billboard officially announced that aespa’s new mini album “Girls” had appeared at No. 3 on its well-known Top 200 Albums chart, which ranks the most famous album in the United States.

aespa has now turned into the quickest female K-pop act to enter the top 3 of the Billboard 200, having accomplished the accomplishment under two years after their debut— and just the third generally. Besides “Girls,” the main different albums by a female K-pop artist ever to chart in the best 3 of the Billboard 200 are BLACKPINK’s “THE ALBUM” and TWICE’s “Formula of Love: O+T=<3.”

aespa is additionally the quickest female K-pop act in history to chart two albums in the top 20 of the Billboard 200 — and just the subsequent generally speaking following TWICE. (aespa’s most memorable smaller than usual album “Savage” came to No. 20 on the diagram a year ago.)

Furthermore, “Girls” made areas of strength and as the top-rated album of the week in the United States. The mini album debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart dated July 23, making aespa the quickest K-pop girl group in history to top the chart.

As per Luminate (previously MRC Data), “Girls” procured a sum of 56,000 equivalent album units during the week finishing on July 14. The album’s complete score comprised 53,000 customary album sales and 3,000 streaming equivalent album (SEA) units — which means 4.34 million on-request audio streams throughout the course of the week.

Billboard reported the most recent Billboard 200 chart results for July 23 in view of “the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA).”

“Each unit equals one album sale or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album,” it added.

Bad Bunny’s “Un Verano Sin Ti” is No. 1 for the fifth consecutive week with 105,000 equivalent album units in the US followed by Brent Faiyaz’s “Wasteland” with 88,000 equivalent album units procured.

Aespa’s “Girls” set third“with 56,000 equivalent album units earned, of which album sales comprise 53,000 (making it the top-selling album of the week), SEA units comprise 3,000 (equaling 4.34 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks) and TEA units comprise less than 1,000,” according to Billboard.

“Like many K-pop releases, the CD configuration of Girls was issued in collectible deluxe packages (12 total, including an exclusive edition for Target), each with a standard set of items and randomized elements (such as photo cards, stickers, and a poster); 98% of the album’s first-week sales were on CD. The other 2% were digital album sales. (The set was not released in any other format, such as vinyl or cassette),” it added.

Aespa’s “Girls” as of late established another standard for K-pop girl groups in South Korea when it sold 1.12 million duplicates in the main seven-day stretch of release from July 8 to 14 in view of Hanteo Chart.

With this, Hanteo Chart said, Aespa turned into the primary K-pop girl group to turn into a “million-seller,” which alludes to artists that sell one million duplicates of an album.

“Girls” additionally sold more than 1.42 million duplicates during the principal seven-day stretch of its release ― the most elevated for any K-pop girl group― as per album tracker Circle Chart.

Driving the nine-track album is the title track, “Girls,” a dance song peppered with strong wobble bass and synth sound. Through their lyrics, aespa individuals and their digital avatars show how they have grown up in the wake of battling against “Black Mamba,” an extraordinary evil force. The album likewise offers the group of quartet’s most memorable English-language single, “Life’s Too Short,” which emerged on June 24.

Aespa, consisting of Karina, Winter, Giselle, and Ningning, is known as the first metaverse girl group. debuting to appearing in 2021, it has put out a string of hits including “Black Mamba” (2021) and “Next Level” (2021).

On July 17 EST, Billboard announced its top 10 albums on ‘Billboard 200’ for the seven-day stretch of July 23. Bad Bunny’s ‘Un Verano Sin Ti’ ranked #1 with 105,000 equivalent album units, Brent Faiyaz’s ‘Wasteland’ ranked #2 with 88,000 equivalent album units, and aespa’s ‘Girls’ ranked #3 with 56,000 equivalent album units absolute.

As indicated by the chart, aespa’s ‘Girls’ is likewise slated for #1 on ‘Top Album Sales’ this week with a sum of 53,000 duplicates sold.

aespa’s ‘Girls’ recently kept a sum of 1,126,000 duplicates in first-week sales based on the Hanteo chart count.