&TEAM Ranks 20th on U.S. Billboard 200... Highest Ranking Ever for Japanese Boy Group

HYBE's global group &TEAM has landed at No. 20 on the U.S. Billboard main album chart, the "Billboard 200." This marks the highest ranking ever achieved by a Japanese boy group on the chart.

According to the latest chart released by Billboard on October 6 (local time) for the chart dated October 10, &TEAM's second Korean mini-album, "Mark on Me," placed 20th on the "Billboard 200." This is 32 spots higher than their previous peak of 52nd achieved with their third Japanese mini-album, "We on Fire," last May.

The group also landed spots on several subsidiary charts. "Mark on Me" topped the "World Albums" chart, which combines physical album sales with streaming and download equivalents, and ranked third on the "Top Album Sales" chart, which tracks pure album sales. &TEAM also hit a personal best of No. 18 on the "Artist 100."

Formed under a label of HYBE Labels Japan and debuting in December 2022, &TEAM is a nine-member group with mostly Japanese members. In August, they carried out their first local activities in the United States, performing at the Grammy Museum's "Global Spin Live" and "KCON LA 2026." Billboard praised their KCON performance at the time, stating that it proved why &TEAM is called a "performance monster." These chart results follow about two months after their initial U.S. promotions.

Released on September 8, "Mark on Me" set a personal record for &TEAM with first-week sales of 1,357,357 copies. With this achievement, &TEAM recorded million-seller status for four consecutive releases. The album also topped the Hanteo Chart weekly physical album chart and Japan's Oricon Weekly Album Ranking for the week of October 5, while ranking fourth on the UK Official Physical Singles Chart for October 2 to 8.

&TEAM, formed in Japan, adopting South Korea as another operational base and expanding their reach into the U.S. market is part of HYBE's "Multi-home, Multi-genre" strategy. HYBE has been expanding its music business by establishing local labels in various regions and broadening genres. YX Labels has also presented "Beyond Japan" as its vision to expand music and content created in Japan overseas.

&TEAM wrapped up their Asian tour, "2026 &TEAM CONCERT TOUR 'BLAZE THE WAY,'" on October 3 and 4 at the KSPO Dome in Olympic Park, Songpa-gu, Seoul. The tour, which began last May, drew approximately 230,000 attendees across 23 shows in 14 cities.

&TEAM will embark on a new tour, "2026-2027 &TEAM CONCERT TOUR 'Mark on You,'" starting October 15, holding 41 shows across 18 cities in Japan.

(Photo: Yonhap News / Reported by Kang Kyung-yoon, SBS Entertainment News)
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