Key Takeaways
- Stray Kids achieve their eighth No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with DO IT.
- All of Stray Kids’ Billboard 200 entries have debuted at No. 1 since 2022.
- With this latest album, they extend their record for the most No. 1s among groups this century.
- The Wicked: For Good soundtrack debuts at No. 2 on the same chart.
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 from position one to three in its eighth week on the list earning 86,000 equivalent album units down five percent). Two former No.1s trail Swift as I’m the Problem, descends from three to four earning 75 thousand down less than one percent while the KPop Demon Hunters, soundtrack is stationary at number five earning 67 thousand down two percent.
Tate McRae’s chart-topping So Close to What, surges from twenty-one to six with sixty-four thousand equivalent album units earned up two hundred two percent following its deluxe reissue on November twenty-one with five additional tracks added to its digital download and streaming editions among which is “Tit for Tat,” which peaked at number three on Billboard Hot one hundred dated October eleven.
Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving is a non-mover in top ten latest Billboard two hundred holding at number seven earning forty-nine thousand equivalent album units down two percent.
The Hazbin Hotel: Season Two soundtrack flies from seventy to eight on Billboard two hundred after its first full week of chart activity marking its first top ten from popular Prime Video animated series zooming up list nearly forty-six thousand equivalent album units earned up two hundred fifty percent from its debut at number seventy with thirteen thousand units from only two days activity released Wednesday November nineteen most albums released Friday tracking week for Billboard two hundred runs Friday through Thursday each week.
In tracking week ending November twenty-seven Hazbin Hotel Season Two album tallied thirty-two thousand SEA units equaling forty-six point fifty-eight million on-demand official streams for its tracks it debuts at number eight Top Streaming Albums thirteen thousand five hundred traditional album sales it jumps thirty-two to eight Top Album Sales five hundred TEA units.
The Season Two soundtrack surpasses number thirteen debut peak Hazbin Hotel Season One soundtrack February twenty-four.
With Wicked: For Good KPop Demon Hunters Hazbin Hotel Season Two Nos two five eight respectively there are three soundtracks top ten Billboard two hundred first time more than six years last happened April six twenty nineteen dated chart Lady Gaga Bradley Cooper A Star Is Born Queen Bohemian Rhapsody Mötley Crüe Dirt Nos six nine ten respectively.
Aerosmith YUNGBLUD team up for number nine debut collaborative project One More Time it’s tenth top ten Aerosmith first YUNGBLUD set earned thirty-nine thousand equivalent album units album sales comprise thirty-seven thousand it debuts number three Top Album Sales SEA units comprise two thousand equaling two point thirty-two million on-demand official streams set tracks TEA units comprise negligible sum albums first-week sales aided availability across six vinyl variants including one signed YUNGBLUD four CD iterations two signed YUNGBLUD one Aerosmith Steven Tyler spray painted across CD booklets en masse then collated packaging.
While YUNGBLUD visits top ten first time after four earlier charting titles Aerosmith clocks first top ten since two thousand twelve Music From Another Dimension debuted peaked number five year further Aerosmith second group fifth act overall earned new top tens nineteen seventies eighties nineties two thousands ten years twenty twenty Aerosmith notched first top ten nineteen seventy-six only top ten seventy peaked number three band scored one top ten eighties nineteen eighty-nine number five peaking Pump three nineties Get Grip number one Big Ones number six Nine Lives number one three two thousands Just Push Play number two O Yeah Ultimate Aerosmith Hits number two Honkin On Bobo number five one tens Music From Another Dimension number five now one twenties One More Time.
Aerosmith second group following Rolling Stones least newly-charting top ten every decade nineteen seventies through twenty-twenties among all acts just five new top ten each decade span Aerosmith Paul McCartney Rolling Stones Bruce Springsteen James Taylor.
The five-track One More Time preceded first single My Only Angel debuted number one Hot Hard Rock Songs October climbs seven six new peak most recently published Mainstream Rock Airplay chart dated December sixth latter ranking My Only Angel marked twenty-fifth top ten Aerosmith first YUNGBLUD My Only Angel first top ten Mainstream Rock Airplay chart Aerosmith since two thousand four Baby Please Don’t Go reached number seven band highest-charting hit since Jaded spent five weeks number one in two thousand one.
Closing out top ten latest Billboard two hundred Summer Walker Finally Over It falls from two to ten second week earning thirty-seven thousand equivalent album units down fifty-two percent.
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