Highest Charting K-pop EP On Billboard 200 In 2024 (Record By Stray kids)

The Official Award Of A Certificate

The K-Pop Records Library confirmed Stray Kids’ mini-album ATE as the highest-charting K-pop EP on the Billboard 200 in 2024 on March 27, 2025, and the win was theirs to bask in. The eight-track EP, which was released on July 19, 2024, under JYP Entertainment, surpassed all previous K-pop EPs that year with 232,000 equivalent album units, according to Billboard. It debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated August 3, 2024, further establishing the group’s global domination, propelled by STAY’s passionate support.

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The energetic first single “Chk Chk Boom,” performed by the eight-member group Bang Chan, Lee Know, Changbin, Hyunjin, Han, Felix, Seungmin, and I.N., debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 and peaked at No. 49. With 201,000 traditional album sales in the first week, the EP easily outsold TWICE’s With YOU-th (No. 1, 159,000 units) and TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s Minisode 3: TOMORROW (No. 3, 107,000 units), according to Luminate and Billboard, respectively. In August 2024, ATE’s debut single was praised as K-pop’s most successful first week of sales, according to posts on X. The EP had sold more than 4.7 million copies worldwide by March 2025, according to Circle Chart. In 2024, K-pop continued to dominate the charts, and Stray Kids were honored by the K-Pop Records Library with a certificate commemorating ATE’s No. 1 peak.