Stray Kids. 2023.06.02. (Photo = Provided by JYP Entertainment) photo@newsis.com *Resale and DB prohibited
Reporter Lee Jae-hoon = Trending group Stray Kids (SKZ), who rewrote the record of K-pop’s first-week sales (record sales in a week from the release date), is also writing a new record of its own on the UK Official Charts.
According to the Official Charts on the 9th (local time), Stray Kids’ third regular album ‘★★★★★ (5-STAR)’ (Five Star), released on the 2nd, ranked in the top 100 of this week’s albums (9th to 15th). ) ranked 40th. This is Stray Kids’ own best performance on the chart.
Also, ‘Five Star’ is Stray Kids’ third album to enter the official album chart. Previously, the 7th mini album ‘MAXIDENT’ (highest score 85th) and ‘The 6th mini album ‘ODDINARY’ (highest score 95th) entered the chart.
Stray Kids became a K-pop team with three or more albums on the chart, following K-pop representative groups such as BTS and BLACKPINK.
In particular, ‘Five Star’ is certain to top the US Billboard’s main album chart ‘Billboard 200’, which will be released next week at the earliest. This album recorded the most in K-pop history with 4,617,499 copies in the first week.
Along with this, Stray Kids debuted at number 100 on the UK Official Singles Chart this week with the title song ‘S-Class’ of ‘Five Star’. ‘Special’ is Stray Kids’ second entry in the Official Singles Top 100. Previously, the title song “MANIAC” of “Ordinary” ranked 98th on the chart.
Fifty Fifty. 2023.04.26. (Photo = Courtesy of Attract) photo@newsis.com *Resale and DB prohibited
Meanwhile, ‘Cupid’ (Twin Ver.) of the K-pop girl group ‘FIFTY FIFTY’, which is cracking the British and American single charts, ranked 11th on the official single chart this week. It ranked 11th, down 2 places from 9th last week, but succeeded in entering for 11 consecutive weeks.
With this, it broke its own record of being the longest entry song among K-pop girl group solo songs. Currently, among the songs of a K-pop girl group, the song that has stayed on the Official Singles Chart Top 100 for the longest time is “Kiss and Make Up,” a collaboration song between Blackpink and British pop star Dua Lipa. The song stayed on the chart for 12 weeks.