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With only eight days remaining for 2024 to bid adieu to us, in a recent development, the globally prominent K-pop boy band Stray Kids has defeated all its contemporaries in the K-pop music scenario and become the solitary K-pop boy band with six number-one hit albums on the number one spot at the Billboard 200 music charts.
According to a report from Billboard, Stray Kids has officially scored their sixth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 musical albums chart. Their new music album, HOP, has debuted atop the list. It is the sixth leader number-one album for the group, making the octet K-pop ensemble boy band the sole and only act to debut at the No. 1 position with its first six chart album entries in nearly more than six decades of Billboard history.
Stray Kids becomes the first act in Billboard 200 history to debut their first six charting albums at #1. pic.twitter.com/Z2N9PXDqqb
— Pop Base (@PopBase) December 22, 2024
For those unaware, Stray Kids previously opened atop the chart with ODDINARY and MAXIDENT (both in 2022), ROCK-STAR and 5-STAR (both in 2023), and ATE (earlier in 2024).
Besides Stray Kids, here is an in-depth glance at the other internationally famed pop stars and musicians who have created similar records on the Billboard 200 music charts history in the past.
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1. Taylor Swift:
In March 2023, Taylor Swift became the leading American pop sensation whose 10 smashing-hit and chart-topping studio albums debuted on the Billboard 200 charts and the only fifth musician to achieve this gigantic achievement since Billboard’s history in 1963. Moreover, her short EP: “Lover: Live From Paris” debuted at No. 58 on the music charts. It joined “Midnights” (No. 3), “Folklore” (No. 28), “Lover” (No. 41), “1989” (No. 50), “Red (Taylor’s Version)” (No. 56), “Reputation” (No. 100), “Evermore” (No. 103), “Fearless (Taylor’s Version)” (No. 172), and “Speak Now” (No. 192).
Two months later, Swift ended her fans’ wait and finally dropped “Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions” on vinyl for the first time to celebrate Record Store Day. This fascinating live vinyl album debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 music charts. After this phenomenon, all ten studio albums of Swift created a strong foothold in the Billboard 200 musical charts.
2. Prince:
After the unexpected demise of globally famed musician Prince in 2016, a sudden inquisitiveness of music lovers within his music moved nineteen studio albums of the deceased musician and singer to the Billboard 200 musical albums chart. This number is the most of any artist in history.
One week later, almost ten of his studio albums climbed in the Billboard 200 charts simultaneously. He recounted the feat for a third week with thirteen studio albums.
3. David Bowie:
After his painful demise from cancer back in December 2015, a month later, music lovers and fans saw the late singer David Bowie-led ten studio albums climbing their way into the Billboard 200 music charts in January 2016 in even less than a month posthumously since his death.
4. Whitney Houston:
Whitney Houston had ten albums, that were climbing their way together on the Billboard 200 in March 2012. It was even less than one month after her sudden death. Moreover, as per various reports, her demise was officially ruled by the court as an accidental drowning.
5. The Beatles:
The globally iconic pop band The Beatles has created this gigantic record three times in two distinctive years. For music lovers unaware, The Beatles became the first artist with double-digit entries in early 2010 and 11, after Billboard gave a green signal for older musical albums to also appear on the charts. Later that year, The Beatles created an only record with their fourteen musical albums coming into the Billboard 200 musical charts after the band’s riveting musical catalog finally became accessible to ardent music connoisseurs on iTunes.
In March 2014, thirteen albums by The Beatles finally came together on the Billboard 200 musical charts after the premiere of the CBS-TV concert special “The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to The Beatles.”
6. BTS:
In the K-pop music scenario, the Grammy-nominated K-pop septet band BTS was the first band whose four musical albums charted in the coveted Billboard 200 musical charts in 2020.
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Their top four musical albums in the Billboard 200 music list include Love Yourself: Tear (2018), Love Yourself: Answer, Map of the Soul: Persona (2019), and Map of the Soul: 7 (2020).
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