BTS Scores Second No. 1 Record on Billboard 200 Graph With 'Love Yourself: Response'

BTS bows at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with Love Yourself: Answer, garnering the K-pop set their next leader among the list after Love Yourself: Tear, that fell before in 2018. The brand new record -- the next in the Korean boy band's Love Yourself trilogy -- arrives beneath the listing with 185,000 equal album units made in the week ending Aug. 30 according to Nielsen Music. In album sales, 141,000 were of that amount. Love Yourself: Answer was released on Aug. 24 through BigHit Entertainment. BTS & K-Pop's Largest Week Ever: Answer totals -- in both overall units earned and album sales -- provides the K-pop genre their best week and both BTS . Third-Largest Week for a Pop Album of 2018: With 185,000 units made, Answer facsimile the week of this year for a pop album. Bigger 16, Justin Timberlake's Person of the Woods and Ariana Grande's Sweetener tallied. Sales Week to get a Pop Album: Love Yourself of 2018: Answer marketed 141,000 copies in its first week, the earnings week of 2018 . The only larger frames were posted by Man of the Woods (242,000) and Shawn Mendes' self-titled record (142,000; June 9). Revenue of Love Yourself: Response was probably enhanced by the record was issued in four collectible editions of this set -- each with other artwork and ephemera -- where fans likely bought all four copies. A concert ticket/album sale redemption provide for the group series on Oct. 6 in Citi Field at Flushing, N.Y. also helped sales. First Pop Act Since 2014 With Two No. 1 Albums in Less Than a Year: Love Yourself: I'm a writer and illustrator. I did graduation in Journalism. For my Postgraduate thesis, I researched on Communicative Science and Disorder. Answer's No. 1 debut comes a little over three months following Love Yourself: Tear opened at No. 1. BTS is the very first pop action with two No. 1s in less than 12 months since One Management topped the record on Dec. 6, 2014 with Four, which followed Midnight Memories' arrival on the Dec. 14, 2013-dated graph. The last action, irrespective of genre, together with two No. 1s in under 12 months has been Logic. The rapper debuted at No. 1 on March 24, 2018 with Bobby Tarantino II, which came 10 months after the No. 1 entrance of Everyone on the May 27, 2017 list. What about the action that achieved two No. 1s in a shorter amount of time than the three weeks between BTS' Tear and Answer? That might be another rap artist, Future, that notched back-to-back No. 1 debuts in successive weeks with his self-titled record and HNDRXX on March 11 and March 18, 2017, respectively. An Unusual Non-English No. 1 Album: Like Her and Tear, Answer is done mostly in Korean with a few lyrics in English. Before Tear, the last mostly non-English record at No. 1 came in 2006, when Il Divo's Ancora topped the chart dated Feb. 11. 2006. Ancora contained music sung along with a monitor sung partly in English. Ariana Grande's Sweetener slides 1-4 in its second week using 75,000 units (down 67 percent). Nicki Minaj's Queen drops 3-5 with 64,000 components (down 32 percent) and Article Malone's beerbongs & bentleys contrasts 5-6 with 56,000 units (down 2 per cent ).Nicki Minaj Gets Candid About Being In An Abusive Relationship in an interview. Ozuna scores his first top 10 attempt, as his next studio album, Aura, arrives in No. 7. The Puerto Rican singer's set bows with 49,000 units earned (with 7,000 of the amount in traditional album sales) -- easily the largest week of 2018 for a Latin album concerning units. Streaming activity fueled the album's debut frame, as it gained 40,000 in SEA units. That amount translates to 55.34 million on-demand audio streams for the record's songs in its opening week -- the most significant streaming week for a submerged record.