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Korean Boyband BTS Makes History as First K-Pop Group to Top U.S. Album Charts

Korean boyband BTS made history Sunday as the first K-Pop band to top the U.S. album charts. The group’s Love Yourself: Tear opened at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 135,000 total albums in its debut week, Billboard reports. “It’s the first No. 1 for the seven-member group, and the first K-pop album to lead the tally,” wrote Billboard in its online report on the latest chart ranking. The album, sung predominantly in Korean, is also the first primarily foreign-language No.

 

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