Blackpink’s 'Born Pink' album lands in top 5 on Billboard 200 for second week

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Girl group Blackpink’s second full-length album “Born Pink” landed in the top 5 on the Billboard 200 for the second week in a row, according to the chart on Sunday.

This week, the album ranked at No. 4, falling three spots from the top spot the week before. It sold approximately 40,000 copies in the United States this week; a 60 percent drop compared to 102,000 copies sold the first week after its release.

The Billboard 200 albums chart 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).

Dropped on Sept. 16, “Born Pink” sold over 1.5 million copies worldwide to top the Billboard 200 last week. The feat made Blackpink the first female K-pop act to take the No. 1 stop on the Billboard 200. Only K-pop boy bands BTS, SuperM and Stray Kids had topped the chart prior.

With “Born Pink,” Blackpink also became the first female Asian artist to top Britain’s Official Albums Chart.

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