TWICE scores 7th Top 10 entry on Billboard 200 with This Is For album

South Korean girl group Twice has extended their Billboard streak, landing at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 this week with their new album This Is For – their seventh consecutive release to break into the chart's top 10.

According to Billboard on Sunday, the album, released on July 11, earned 80,000 equivalent album units in the US in the week ending July 17. The tally includes 68,000 in pure album sales and 12,000 from streaming-equivalent albums (SEAs).

Every week, the Billboard 200 ranks the most popular music albums and EPs in the US based on physical sales, digital downloads and streaming.

With this achievement, Twice extended its own record for the most top-10 entries on the Billboard 200 by a K-pop girl group.

The nine-piece girl group first entered the top 10 in June 2021 with their 10th mini album, Taste of Love, at No. 6.

Subsequent releases followed suit – Formula of Love: O+T=<3 (No. 3), Between 1&2 (No. 3), Ready to Be (No. 2), With YOU-th (No. 1) and Strategy (No. 4).

The group has kicked off their sixth world tour, This Is For, with two sold-out shows in Incheon, South Korea, on July 19-20.

The tour will span Japan, Macau, the Philippines, Singapore, Australia, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Thailand through the end of the year, with major stops in Osaka, Tokyo, Fukuoka, Sydney, Melbourne and Bangkok.

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