K-pop girl group TWICE scored their highest entry on the Billboard 200 chart with their new album.
According to Billboard, TWICE’s “Ready to Be,” released on March 10, debuted at No. 2 on the March 25-dated Billboard 200 chart, which is “the act’s biggest week ever.”
TWICE (Twitter)
“Ready to Be” garnered 153,000 equivalent album units to land on the No. 2 spot, “the fourth top 10-charting effort for the South Korean group.”
“Previously, the act went as high as No. 3 with its last two charting sets, Between 1&2: 11th Mini Album and Formula of Love: O+T=<3, The 3rd Full Album, both in 2021,” Billboard reported.
Of the 153,000, album sales totaled 145,500, streaming equivalent albums (SEA) tallied at 7,000 or 10.28 on-demand official streams of the set’s seven tracks, and track equivalent albums (TEA) units comprised 500.
This week's top-selling albums:
— billboard charts (@billboardcharts) March 20, 2023
1. @JYPETWICE Ready To Be
2. @MileyCyrus Endless Summer Vacation
3. @MorganWallen One Thing At A Time
4. @TXT_members The Name Chapter: Temptation
5. @taylorswift13 Midnights
“TWICE recently scored its second charting hit on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, with the new album’s “Moonlight Sunrise,” spending one week on the list at No. 84 (Feb. 4, 2023 dated chart),” according to Billboard.
The Billboard 200 chart is based on “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,” Billboard added.
“Ready to Be” is also the No. 1 top-selling album and No. 2 top-selling vinyl album in the US.