BTS’s J-Hope Enters Top 10 Of Billboard 200 For 1st Time As “Jack In The Box” Returns To Chart After A Year

BTS’s J-Hope has achieved his highest ranking yet as a soloist on the Billboard 200!

On August 27 local time, Billboard announced that J-Hope’s 2022 solo album “Jack In The Box” had re-entered its Top 200 Albums chart over a year after its initial release.

Back when “Jack In The Box” was first released in July 2022, the album was only available digitally or as a Weverse (digital download) album—but on August 18, a new physical version of the album with several bonus tracks and brand-new photos was released.

After the release of this new “HOPE Edition,” “Jack In The Box”—which previously debuted at No. 17 on the Billboard 200 last year—re-entered the chart at No. 6, making it J-Hope’s first solo album ever to break the top 10.

J-Hope is only the fourth male K-pop soloist ever to enter the top 6 of the Billboard 200, following his fellow BTS members RM, Jimin, and Suga (as Agust D).

According to Luminate (formerly Nielsen Music), “Jack In The Box” earned a total of 50,000 equivalent album units during the week ending on August 24. The album’s total score consisted of 47,000 traditional album sales and 2,000 streaming equivalent album (SEA) units, which translates to 2.99 million on-demand audio streams over the course of the week. “Jack In The Box” also racked up 1,000 track equivalent album (TEA) units during the week.

Congratulations to J-Hope!

BTS’s Jungkook And FIFTY FIFTY Make Spotify’s 2023 List Of Top 20 Most-Streamed Songs Of The Summer

BTS’s Jungkook’s “Seven” and FIFTY FIFTY’s “Cupid” were two of the world’s biggest songs of the summer on Spotify!

This week, Spotify released its list of the top 20 most-streamed “2023 Songs of Summer,” and both Jungkook and FIFTY FIFTY made the global list.

“Seven” took No. 3 on the list of this summer’s most-streamed songs globally, while the “Twin version” of “Cupid” ranked No. 11.

TWICE’s Jihyo And BTS’s Jungkook Top Circle Weekly Charts + NewJeans Earns Triple Crown

Circle Chart (formerly known as Gaon Chart) has revealed its chart rankings for the week of August 13 to 19!

TWICE’s Jihyo topped this week’s physical album chart with her solo debut mini album “ZONE,” which entered the chart at No. 1.

The new HOPE edition of BTS’s J-Hope’s 2022 solo album “Jack In The Box” debuted at No. 2 this week, while STAYC’s new mini album “TEENFRESH” debuted at No. 3.

ZEROBASEONE’s debut mini album “YOUTH IN THE SHADE” stayed strong at No. 4 on the chart, and Young Tak’s “FORM” rounded out the top five for the week.

NewJeans achieved a triple crown this week after topping the overall digital chart, streaming chart, and social chart.

The top five songs on this week’s overall digital chart and streaming chart were exactly the same: NewJeans swept the top two spots on both charts with “Super Shy” at No. 1 and “ETA” at No. 2, followed by BTS’s Jungkook’s “Seven” (featuring Latto) at No. 3, Parc Jae Jung’s “Let’s Say Goodbye” at No. 4, and (G)I-DLE’s “Queencard” at No. 5.

Jungkook claimed both of the top two spots on this week’s Global K-Pop Chart with his official solo debut single “Seven”: the clean version of the song rose to No. 1, followed by the explicit version at No. 2.

NewJeans swept the next two spots on the chart, with their hit songs “Super Shy” and “ETA” ranking No. 3 and No. 4 respectively.

Finally, BTS’s V’s new solo pre-release single “Love Me Again” shot to No. 5 on this week’s chart.

Kim Ho Joong topped this week’s digital download chart with his song “I’ll be your love” (produced by A.COMA), which jumped to No. 1.

V’s “Love Me Again” rose to No. 2 for the week, while his other pre-release track “Rainy Days” climbed to No. 4.

ISEGYE IDOL’s “KIDDING” debuted at No. 3 on the chart this week, with Jungkook’s “Seven” rounding out the top five.

NewJeans held onto their spot at No. 1 on this week’s social chart, followed by FIFTY FIFTY at No. 2 and Jungkook at No. 3.

Finally, BLACKPINK and BLACKPINK’s Jisoo maintained their respective positions at No. 4 and No. 5 respectively.

BTS Members, Including Jin And J-Hope, Show Love For Suga At His Encore Concert In Seoul

CELEB

Aug 7, 2023

by E. Cha

The members of BTS showed their support for Suga both on- and off-stage at his concerts in Seoul this weekend!

On August 4, 5, and 6, Suga held three nights of “‘D-DAY’ THE FINAL” encore concerts at the KSPO Dome in Seoul.

Notably, every night featured a surprise performance by one of Suga’s bandmates: Jungkook unexpectedly took the stage on Day 1, Jimin on Day 2, and RM on Day 3.

Meanwhile, Jin and J-Hope—both of whom are currently serving in the military—thrilled fans by turning up together in the audience of Suga’s final show on August 6.

After the concert, both Jin and J-Hope took to Instagram to share photos from the night. Jin shared two photos that they had snapped with Suga and RM backstage, affectionately writing in one caption, “The cool Suga,” and in the other, “I love you, Bangtan; I love you, ARMY.”

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Meanwhile, J-Hope posted several photos from his seat at the concert and wrote, “Congrats, Yoongi.”

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BTS’s official Twitter account also posted backstage photos of Suga with all three of his surprise guests after the final show.

Congratulations to Suga on successfully wrapping up his encore concerts!