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K-pop group Ateez has scored its third No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with “Golden Hour : Part.5.”
The album starts with 228,000 equivalent album units, with 223,000 accounting for pure album sales thanks to 30 CD variants
and five vinyl variants. This marks Ateez’s ninth top 10 on the albums chart and their third topper following “Golden Hour : Part.2” in 2024 and “The World EP.Fin : Will” in 2023. With their latest entry, the group secures the most top 10s of any collective in the 2020s, breaking its tie with Stray Kids and Tomorrow X Together.
The group, consisting of Hongjoong, Seonghwa, Yunho, Yeosang, San, Mingi, Wooyoung and Jongho, previously released its thirteenth EP “Golden Hour : Part.4” in February, and followed with “Golden Hour : Part.5” late last month. The band released the project just days before they became the third K-Pop group to headline the BST Hyde Park festival in London.
“Golden Hour : Part.5” is the only album to debut in the top 10 on the chart this week. Olivia Rodrigo’s “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love” dips to No. 2 after holding the top spot for two weeks with 127,000 equivalent album units. Ella Langley’s “Dandelion” holds steady at No. 3, while Drake’s “Iceman” slides from No. 2 to 4 and Morgan Wallen’s “I’m the Problem” pushes back from No. 4 to 5.
Rounding out the top 10, Noah Kahan’s “The Great Divide” lands at No. 6, followed by Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” and “Number Ones.” At No. 9 is Wallen’s “One Thing at a Time,” and rounding out the top 10 is Olivia Dean’s “The Art of Loving.”
