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Stray Kids Claim Eighth No. 1 on Billboard 200 With ‘DO IT’

Stray Kids claim their eighth No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart as DO IT debuts atop the ranking dated Dec. 6. The set earned 295,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending Nov. 27, according to Luminate. Of that sum, traditional album sales comprise 286,000.

All eight of the group’s Billboard 200 chart entries have debuted at No. 1, beginning with ODDINARY in 2022. In September of this year, when KARMA opened atop the list, Stray Kids became the first act to debut at No. 1 with their first eight entries in the 69-year history of the chart. With DO IT’s debut, they extend that record. The Billboard 200 began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in March 1956.

In addition, with an eighth No. 1, Stray Kids extend their record for the most No. 1s among groups this century (since 2000).

Also in the top 10 on the latest Billboard 200 chart, the Wicked: For Good soundtrack debuts at No. 2, Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl falls from No. 1 for the first time (dipping 1-3 in its eighth week), Tate McRae’s So Close to What surges 21-6 following a deluxe reissue with additional songs, the Hazbin Hotel: Season Two soundtrack jumps 70-8 after its first full week of chart activity and Aerosmith and YUNGBLUD’s collaborative set One More Time arrives at No. 9.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Dec. 6, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Dec. 2. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

Of DO IT’s 295,000 first-week equivalent album units, album sales comprise 286,000 (it debuts at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart), SEA units comprise 9,000 (equaling 13.98 million on-demand official streams of the sets songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.

DO IT nets the seventh-largest debut week for an album, by units earned, in 2025. The year’s seven biggest debut weeks are: The Life of a Showgirl (4.002 million), Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem (493,000), The Weeknd’s Hurry Up Tomorrow (490,000), Sabrina Carpenter’s Man’s Best Friend (366,000), KARMA (313,000), Playboi Carti’s MUSIC (298,000) and DO IT (295,000).

In traditional album sales, DO IT logs the fourth-largest week of 2025 (debut or otherwise). The four biggest sales weeks in 2025 are the opening frames of: The Life of a Showgirl (3.48 million), Hurry Up Tomorrow (359,000), KARMA (296,000) and DO IT (286,000).

DO IT’s album sales were aided by its availability across seven CD variants (all containing collectible items such as photocards, posters and stickers, with some items randomized), including a signed edition.

As DO IT is mostly in the Korean language, it is the 30th mostly non-English-language album to hit No. 1, and the third of 2025 (following Bad Bunny’s Spanish-language DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS and KARMA). Four mostly non-English titles topped the list in 2024, and all were mostly Korean-language efforts. Of the 30 mostly non-English-language albums to reach No. 1, 20 are mostly Korean, six mostly (or all) Spanish, one mostly Italian, one entirely French and two mostly a blend of Spanish, Italian and French.

The Wicked: For Good film soundtrack, led by Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, debuts at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 (the highest debut for a soundtrack in 2025) with 122,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 85,000 (it debuts at No. 2 on Top Album Sales, aided by seven vinyl variants and four CD variants, including one signed by Erivo and Grande), SEA units comprise 36,000 (equaling 47.27 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it debuts at No. 6 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise 1,000.

Wicked: For Good premiered in movie theaters on Nov. 21 and has earned over $270 million at the U.S. and Canada box office. It follows the first Wicked film, which was released in 2024. The first Wicked soundtrack also debuted (and peaked) at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, launching with 139,000 equivalent album units.

After seven straight weeks at No. 1, Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl falls from the top, dipping 1-3 in its eighth week on the list (86,000 equivalent album units earned, down 5%). Two former No. 1s trail Swift, as I’m the Problem descends 3-4 (75,000, down less than 1%) and the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack is stationary at No. 5 (67,000, down 2%).

Tate McRae’s chart-topping So Close to What surges 21-6 with 64,000 equivalent album units earned (up 202%) following its deluxe reissue on Nov. 21 with five additional tracks added to the set’s digital download and streaming editions. Among the new cuts: “Tit for Tat,” which peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Oct. 11).

Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving is a non-mover in the top 10 on the latest Billboard 200, holding at No. 7 (49,000 equivalent album units earned, down 2%).

The Hazbin Hotel: Season Two soundtrack flies 70-8 on the Billboard 200 after its first full week of chart activity, marking the first top 10 from the popular Prime Video animated series. The set zooms up the list with nearly 46,000 equivalent album units earned (up 250% from its debut at No. 70 with 13,000 units from only two days of activity). The soundtrack was released on Wednesday, Nov. 19; most albums are released on Friday. The tracking week for the Billboard 200 runs Friday through Thursday each week.

In the tracking week ending Nov. 27, the Hazbin Hotel: Season Two album tallied 32,000 SEA units (equaling 46.58 million on-demand official streams for its tracks; it debuts at No. 8 on Top Streaming Albums), 13,500 in traditional album sales (it jumps 32-8 on Top Album Sales) and 500 TEA units.

The Season Two soundtrack surpasses the No. 13 debut and peak of the Hazbin Hotel: Season One soundtrack in February 2024.

With Wicked: For Good, KPop Demon Hunters and Hazbin Hotel: Season Two at Nos. 2, 5 and 8, respectively, there are three soundtracks in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 for the first time in more than six years. It last happened on the April 6, 2019-dated chart, when Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born, Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody and Mötley Crüe’s The Dirt were at Nos. 6, 9 and 10.

Aerosmith and YUNGBLUD team up for a No. 9 debut with their collaborative project One More Time. It’s the 10th top 10 for Aerosmith and first for YUNGBLUD. The set earned 39,000 equivalent album units. Album sales comprise 37,000 (it debuts at No. 3 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 2,000 (equaling 2.32 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. The album’s first-week sales were aided by its availability across six vinyl variants (including one signed by YUNGBLUD), four CD iterations (two signed by YUNGBLUD and one where Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler spray painted across the CD booklets en masse and then those were collated into their packaging) and a cassette tape.

While YUNGBLUD visits the top 10 for the first time (after four earlier charting titles), Aerosmith clocks its first top 10 since 2012’s Music From Another Dimension! debuted and peaked at No. 5 that year. Further, Aerosmith is the second group, and fifth act overall, to have earned new top 10s in the 1970s, ‘80s, ‘90s, 2000s, ‘10s and ‘20s. Aerosmith notched its first top 10 in 1976 (and only top 10 of the ‘70s) with Rocks (peaking at No. 3). The band then scored one top 10 in the ‘80s (1989’s No. 5-peaking Pump), three in the ‘90s (Get a Grip, No. 1; Big Ones, No. 6 and Nine Lives, No. 1), three in the 2000s (Just Push Play, No. 2; O, Yeah! Ultimate Aerosmith Hits, No. 2 and Honkin’ On Bobo, No. 5), one in the ‘10s (Music From Another Dimension!, No. 5) and now one in the ’20s with One More Time.

Aerosmith is the second group, following The Rolling Stones, with at least one newly-charting top 10 in every decade from the 1970s through the 2020s. Among all acts, there are just five with a new top 10 in each decade in that span: Aerosmith, Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen and James Taylor.

The five-track One More Time was preceded by its first single, “My Only Angel,” which debuted at No. 1 on Hot Hard Rock Songs in October and climbs 7-6 (a new peak) on the most recently published Mainstream Rock Airplay chart (dated Dec. 6). On the latter ranking, “My Only Angel” marked the 25th top 10 for Aerosmith and the first for YUNGBLUD. “My Only Angel” is the first top 10 on the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart for Aerosmith since 2004’s “Baby, Please Don’t Go” reached No. 7, and the band’s highest-charting hit since “Jaded” spent five weeks at No. 1 in 2001.

Closing out the top 10 on the latest Billboard 200 is Summer Walker’s Finally Over It, which falls 2-10 in its second week (37,000 equivalent album units earned, down 52%).

Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.

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