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Cover of TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s 2nd full-length Japanese album ‘SWEET’. 2023.07.14. (Photo = Provided by Big Hit Music) photo@newsis.com *Resale and DB prohibited
Reporter Lee Jae-hoon = 4th generation K-version signboard boy group ‘Tomorrow by Together’ (TXT, Tubatoo) is rewriting the foreign artist record at Japan’s Oricon with their 2nd regular Japanese album ‘SWEET’.
According to Oricon on the 14th, TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s 2nd full-length Japanese album ‘SWEET’ won first place with 306,774 points in the ‘Weekly Combined Album Ranking’ (counting period July 3-9) on the 17th. occupied
This is a record that exceeds the weekly points (approximately 188,000 points) of the previous work, ‘Chapter of Name: Temptation’, as well as the cumulative points (302,000 points) of the previous ‘Chapter of Chaos’ series. TOMORROW X TOGETHER broke its own highest point in the first week of the release of ‘Sweet’.
The Oricon Weekly Combined Album Ranking is a chart that ranks by adding CD sales, digital downloads, and streams.
As ‘Sweet’ rose to the top of the weekly album rankings ahead of the weekly combined album rankings, TOMORROW X TOGETHER started with the 2nd mini album ‘The Dream Chapter: ETERNITY’ and the 3rd mini album ‘Mini Sword One: Blue Hour’ (minisode1: Blue Hour)’, 1st Japanese regular album ‘STILL DREAMING’, 2nd regular album ‘Chapter of Chaos: FREEZE’, 1st Japanese EP ‘Chaotic Wonderland’, 4th mini album ‘ Minisode 2: Thursday’s Child’, the 5th mini album ‘The Name Chapter: Temptation’, followed by ‘Sweet’, 8 albums in a row topped this chart.
TOMORROW X TOGETHER is the first overseas artist to have 8 works in a row ranked first on the Oricon weekly album chart.
On Billboard Japan’s latest chart (as of July 12), TOMORROW X TOGETHER ranked first on the ‘Artist 100’ chart. ‘Sweet’ topped the ‘Hot Album’ and ‘Top Album Sales’ charts respectively. In addition to this, this album also reached the top of the weekly album chart (counting period July 5-11) on Line Music, a major Japanese music source site.
TOMORROW X TOGETHER proved their heightened status not only in Japan but also in the US music market. According to the report for the first half of 2023 recently released by Luminate, an American entertainment industry data research company, TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s “Chapter of the Name: Temptation” ranked #1 in the “Top CD Album Sales” category. Above, in the category of ‘Top Albums (Total Sales)’, which is calculated by adding the sales of physical and digital albums, it ranked second after American pop star Taylor Swift.