Stray Kids Makes History at Top of Billboard 200 Chart

As Stray children‘new album HOP debuts at #1 on the Billboard 200 (dated December 28), they become the first group to debut at No. 1 with their first six albums on the charts. THE Billboard 200 began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in March 1956.

Stray Kids had already debuted at the top of the chart with ODDINARY And MAXIDENT (both in 2022), ROCK-STAR And 5 STARS (both in 2023) and ATE (earlier in 2024).

Previously, Stray Kids were tied with the late rapper DMX, who saw his first chart entries debut at No. 1 between 1998 and 2003: It’s dark and hell is hot (1998), Flesh of my flesh Blood of my blood (1999), …and then there was (2000), The Great Depression (2001) and Grand Champion (2003).

THE Billboard 200 This ranking ranks the most popular albums of the week in the United States based on multimetric consumption measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units include album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA), and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit is equivalent to one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 official ad-supported audio and video streams or 1,250 official paid/subscription on-demand audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new table dated December 28, 2024 will be published in its entirety on Billboardthe website on Tuesday, December 24. For all graphics newsfollow @billboard and @billboardcharts on X, formerly Twitter, and Instagram.

Since March 1956, more than 1,200 different albums have reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Until the chart began using electronically monitored tracking information from Luminate in May 1991, only six albums debuted at No. 1 rank. After that, it became the norm that albums would debut at the top of the chart. In 2024, for example, of the 24 albums that spent time at #1, 22 of them debuted at #1.