K-pop group ASTRO’s ‘Drive to the Starry Road’ tops weekly album chart


K-pop idol group ASTRO topped the weekly album chart with their new release “Drive to the Starry Road.”

According to Korea’s Hanteo Chart, “Drive to the Starry Road” emerged as the No. 1 album on the weekly physical album chart for the period May 16 to 22 with 229,283 copies sold.

K-pop boy band ASTRO (Twitter)

ASTRO released the album on May 16 and the total also represents the idol group’s first-week sales for “Drive to the Starry Road.”

The group’s last album “Switch On,” released in August 2021, sold 275,145 copies in the first week of release, according to Hanteo Chart.

ASTRO’s members are actor-singer Cha Eun-woo, Moonbin, Sanha, MJ, Rocky and Jinjin.

Here are the 30 top-selling albums in Korea from May 16 to 22, according to Hanteo Chart:

1. ASTRO - Drive to the Starry Road” - 229,283 copies sold

2. ONEUS - Trickster - 227,314

3. Tomorrow X Together - Minisode 2: Thursday’s Child - 186,242

4. AB6IX - A to B - 51,849

5. Yerin - Aria - 29,457

6. TNX - Way Up - 22,248

7. iKON - Flashback - 9,003

8. Girls’ Generation’s Hyoyeon - 8,246

9. Song Ga-in - The Song of Love - 8,226

10. Le Sserafim - Fearless - 8,059

11. Hwang Chi-yeul - By My Side - 7,917

12. BAE173 - Intersection: Blaze - 7,533

13. NCT Dream - Glitch Mode - 7,284

14. Jannabi - Small Pieces II: Grippin' the Green - 5,705

15. Monsta X - Shape of Love - 4,789

16. Red Velvet - Summer Magic

17. DKZ - Chase Ep. 2-Maum - 4,463

18. Stray Kids - Oddinary - 4,449

19. BLACKPINK’s Lisa - Lalisa - 3,765

20. Miyeon - My - 3,131

21. (G)I-DLE - I Never Die - 2,960

22. Jeong Sewoon - Where is my Garden - 2,937

23. CLASS:Y - 1st Mini Album Y: Class is Over - 2,600

24. The Rose’s Sammry - Moth - 2,550

25. Stray Kids - NOEASY - 2,300

26. Stray Kids - Christmas EveL - 2,213

27. Lee Juck - Songs Made of Wood - 2,141

28. BILLLIE - The Collective Soul and Unconscious: Chapter One - 2,116

29. NCT Dream - The First - 2,030

30. Tomorrow X Together - The Chaos Chapter: Fight or Escape - 1,965