TXT's 'Sweet' tops Oricon weekly album chart

Boy band Tomorrow X Together [BIGHIT MUSIC]

Tomorrow X Together topped Japan's Oricon weekly album chart with its latest Japanese album "Sweet," making it the eighth album in a row by the boy band to land atop the chart.

"Sweet," Tomorrow X Together's second Japanese full-length album that dropped last Wednesday, went straight to the top of Oricon's daily album chart on the first day of its release, with 210,600 total copies sold on the first day of its release.

Oricon also announced Tuesday that the album topped the weekly chart on the week of July 3, making it the boy band's eighth album to have topped the weekly chart in a row — a first for any foreign artist in Japan.

The album sold 303,000 copies in the first week of its release in Japan, making it the most-sold album by Tomorrow X Together.

The album features a total of 12 tracks, including those from Tomorrow X Together's first Japanese EP "Chaotic Wonderland" (2021) and its third Japanese single "Good Boy Gone Bad" (2022), as well as new songs "Intro : Floating," "Hydrangea Love," "Sugar Rush Ride [Japanese Ver.]," "Ring (Unplugged Ver.)" and "Outro : Falling."

Lead track "Sugar Rush Ride [Japanese Ver.]" is the Japanese-lyric version of Tomorrow X Together's latest Korean lead track from its fifth EP "The Name Chapter: Temptation" released in January.

Ballad number "Hydrangea Love" was written by Japanese singer-songwriter Yuuri and will be used as the theme song of Nippon TV's drama series "The Best Student: Last Dance with 1 Year to Live."

Tomorrow X Together debuted in Japan in January 2020, less than a year after debuting in Korea with five members — Yeonjun, Soobin, Beomgyu, Taehyun and Hueningkai. Its third Japanese single "Good Boy Gone Bad" was the only Japanese release to make it on the Billboard 200, apart from those by BTS.

BY CHO YONG-JUN [cho.yongjun1@joongang.co.kr]