K-pop idol group ENHYPEN achieved a new career high when their new album “Dark Blood” debuted in the top five on the Billboard 200 chart.
According to Billboard, ENHYPEN’s “Dark Blood” entered the June 17-dated Billboard 200 chart at No. 4.
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This marked the group first top five entry into the chart and fifth overall after “Border: Carnival” (No. 18), “Dimension: Dilemma” (No. 11), “Dimension: Answer” (No. 14) and “Manifesto: Day 1” (No. 6).
Billboard reported that “Dark Blood” earned 88,000 equivalent album units consisting of 85,000 in album sales and streaming equivalent (SEA) units of 3,000 or 3.79 million on-demand official streams.
ENHYPEN, which was recently named brand ambassador for Prada, will start the US leg of the second world tour “Fate” in October with seven shows in six cities.
The first will be held at Dignity Health Sports Park in Los Angeles, marking ENHYPEN’s stadium debut.
For the very first time for a K-pop boy band, ENHYPEN appear as characters in The Pinkfong Company's US animation film “Baby Shark's Big Movie!,” which will premiere later this year.
“Dark Blood,” released on May 22, sold over 1.3 million copies within a week, a new record for the group.
As of May, the album also surpassed 100,000 copies in cumulative sales, earning RIAJ (The Recording Industry Association of Japan) gold certification.