Ateez's 'Spin Off: from the Witness' lands at No. 7 on Billboard 200 albums chart

Boy band Ateez [NEWS1]

Boy band Ateez landed at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with its latest EP "Spin Off: from the Witness" released last month.

Billboard said Monday in a preview of its music charts for this week that the K-pop group had charted for the second time in the top 10 of the Billboard 200. It ranked seventh with its EP released on Dec. 30.

The Billboard 200 ranks the most popular albums of the week in the United States, measured by equivalent album units comprising physical album sales and other digital sales records. The group's album earned 41,500 equivalent album units, according to Billboard.

The group first entered the chart in August, when its EP, "The World Ep. 1: Movement," reached No. 3.

"Spin off" recounts tales through a third-person account of a witness. The album has six songs including the main track "Halazia."

BY YOON SO-YEON, YONHAP [yoon.soyeon@joongang.co.kr]