Seventeen's 'Sector 17' enters Billboard 200 albums chart at No. 4

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Boy band Seventeen entered the Billboard 200 albums chart with "Sector 17" (2022), the repackaged version of its fourth full-length album, the chart announced on Sunday.

The album landed in fourth spot, marking Seventeen's highest ranking on the Billboard 200 as well as its second album to make it into the chart's top 10. Seventeen's fourth full-length album "Face the Sun" (2022) peaked at seventh place on the Billboard 200 in June.

According to Billboard's announcement, "Sector 17" which dropped on July 18 recorded 34,000 copies in sales. The Billboard 200 takes into account physical CD sales as well as the number of online streams and downloads converted to count as CD sales. One-thousand-five-hundred on-demand streams are counted as one streaming equivalent album (SEA), and 10 track downloads are counted as one track equivalent album (TEA).

"Sector 17" saw 31,000 copies in physical copies sold, 2,000 in SEA and approximately 1,000 in TEA.

"Sector 17" sold over 1.12 million copies in total during the first week of its release, becoming Seventeen's seventh million-seller album. The lead track "_World" topped the iTunes Top Songs charts in 28 nations immediately upon release.

Seventeen debuted in 2015 and consists of 13 members: S.Coups, Wonwoo, Mingyu, Vernon, Woozi, Jeonghan, Joshua, DK, Seungkwan, Hoshi, Jun, The8 and Dino. It has released songs such as “Adore U” (2015), “Don’t Wanna Cry” (2017), “Ready to Love” (2021) and “Hot” (2022).

BY HALEY YANG [yang.hyunjoo@joongang.co.kr]