Seoul: K-pop boy group Ateez has achieved a significant milestone by topping Billboard's main albums chart for the second time in its career. Ateez's 11th EP, "Golden Hour: Part. 2," has debuted at the top of the Billboard 200, earning 184,000 equivalent album units in the week ending November 21, as announced by Billboard on Sunday.According to Yonhap News Agency, the Billboard 200 ranks the most popular albums in the United States based on equivalent album units, which include physical album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA), and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Billboard reported that Ateez sold 179,000 copies of its album, marking the sixth-largest sales debut week of the year. The SEA units amounted to 5,000, corresponding to 6.43 million on-demand official streams, while the TEA units were described as "a negligible sum."Ateez first reached the No. 1 spot on the chart with "The World Ep. Fin: Will" in 2023. "Golden Hour: Part. 2" represents the 26th "mostly non-English-language" album to achiev e the No. 1 position and is the third such album this year, as noted by Billboard.Ateez is one of eight K-pop acts to have reached the top of the Billboard 200, with BTS achieving this feat six times. Additionally, Billboard highlighted that "Happy," the debut solo effort by BTS member Jin, secured the No. 4 spot, while Enhyphen's "Romance: Untold" reentered the chart at No. 7. This marks the first time that three K-pop albums have occupied positions within the top 10 simultaneously.
- October 12, 2026
