'Minisode 2: Thursday's Child' Also Debuted At No. 1 On Billboard's Top Album Sales Chart, Reaching The Third Largest US Week Of Sales Of Any Album By Any Artist This Year.
Various proud achievements have continued to be obtained by TXT by reaching their highest ranking on the Billboard 200 with their new mini album "minisode 2: Thursday's Child". On May 22 local time, Billboard announced that TXT's newest mini album “minisode 2: Thursday's Child” has debuted at No. 4 on the famous Top 200 Albums chart, the weekly ranking of the most popular albums in the United States.
"minisode 2: Thursday's Child" also debuted at number 1 on the Billboard Top Album Sales Chart, achieving the third largest US sales week of any album by any artist this year (not just Korean artists). In addition, TXT is now an artist Second K-pop in history to chart six different albums on the Billboard 200 (following BTS).'
Not only is "minisode 2: Thursday's Child" their second Top 5 album—the first is their 2021 album "The Chaos Chapter: FREEZE," which debuted at number 5 last year but this is also their sixth entry on the chart overall. , following their 2019 mini album “The Dream Chapter: STAR,” their 2020 mini album “minisode1: Blue Hour” their 2021 Japanese album “Still Dreaming”, “The Chaos Chapter: FREEZE” and their 2021 Japanese EP “Chaotic Wonderland”.
According to Luminate (formerly MRC Data), "minisode 2: Thursday's Child" earned a total of 68,500 equivalent album units during the week ending May 19, marking the group's biggest selling week in the United States to date. The album's total score consists of 65,500 album sales and 3,000 album equivalent streaming units (SEA) which translates to 4.37 million on-demand audio streams of the album's five tracks during the week. Nearly all of the 65,500 albums sold were physical CDs, with only about 500 sold via digital download.
Meanwhile, previously TXT announced the tour date for their upcoming concert in the United States "ACT: LOVE SICK IN U.S.". In this concert, the boy band from Big Hit Entertainment will tour 7 cities from Chicago on July 7 to Los Angeles on July 23. As tickets for this tour were released early, they were sold out as soon as bookings started. With an enthusiastic response from global fans, TXT's agency Big Hit Music announced on May 21 via Weverse that the group will be holding an additional tour in Los Angeles on July 24. (wk/aiss)
