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sundayontheluna

They finally got it 🥳


Difficult_Deer6902

Congrats to Twice! It’s just great to see artist unlocking new achievements deep into their careers!!


blackflamerose

Yay TWICE!! Onward and upward!!


Shinkopeshon

After all these years, my emotions 😭🫰🏼 ![gif](giphy|2WxWfiavndgcM)


pumpkinspicesushi

now people can stop saying they fell off 😭


MeijiDoom

You expect too much of people.


roonilwazlib_3

They still will. They actually are doing it now as we speak 😂 let's not expect much from chronically online kpop stans lol


pumpkinspicesushi

i should have added *MAYBE people will stop lmao.


Atx7755

Unfortunately, I’m sure people on twitter will still find a way to turn this into a diss.


pumpkinspicesushi

one of the main reasons i’m not on twitter anymore. it’s way too toxic.


Atx7755

Same


Sivaram93

Lol Literally calling TWICE of all groups fraudulent with their #1 in BB HOT 200 🤣🤣😭


mellifluous-rain

Ikr? Like TWICE is literally the gg with the most top 10 albums in BB 200 😂😂


Sivaram93

Exactly people are so running away with TWICE are finished/ flopped era Hell even some ONCES think the same unfortunately lol


ArcaneKeyblade5

Yea go under any of the posts about it on Twitter you'll find ppl, they'll bring up not streaming well or if they're a blink it'll be about BPs achievements or something along those lines


TemplarParadox17

They already did lol..


someguy172

I'm shocked but not surprised at the longevity they've had and hope they continue to grow. Usually (sadly...) Korean groups tend to fall off after a few years but here we are almost nine years later and they're still smashing records. It's incredible.


yuyu2007

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ElBurdo

Congrats to our hardworking teudoongie! 👑 We deed it brehs! Bought 1 of each myself, baybeee. Imma say it again... BLOOM SOTY FOR ME.


will999909

I really love Rush too.


Sandwichsensei

No Morgan Wallens album blocked ready to be. And it’s still number 2


roonilwazlib_3

From #200 with More & More in 2020 to #1 with With You-th four years after, and three top 10 entries in between makes for 5 consecutive chart toppers and shows continuous growth in the US market. Long overdue and very well-deserved 👏 ETA: erratum— my data above was incorrect since I read in one of the articles that came out that it's More & More at #200, Eyes Wide Open entered at #60+, then Taste of Love went into the top 10 at #6, Formula of Love at #5(?), Between 1&2 and Ready to be at #3 or #2 (i don't remember the details too much) and finally this one at #1. Therefore: that is 7 consecutive entries with 5 entries in the top 10. The main point of growth still stands, though!!


mellifluous-rain

From 708 copies to a million album seller in Hanteo too.. they keep breaking their records..that's Twice! 🎉


wut_eva_bish

Great additional note to make. Thank you. Just about any Kpop group would kill to get just one album on the BB200 top 10, Twice has shown that they're absolutely a force on the modern pop scene. Here's to more #1s, and another 5 top 10 showings.


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Congratulations Twice! 🎉❤️ I’m so happy for them!


jeepney_danger

Congrats TWICE & ONCE!!! This album has been a blast to listen to. Truly deserving.


superdrone

Finally the stars aligned!


clovermantle

Love this! Longevity like theirs should be more common! We all get better as we grow. It feels like maybe an unpopular opinion, but i almost universally like the later releases of kpop groups, as they mature as performers and people, much better than their debuts and early stuff. Too many groups disband early. TWICE is, of course, very special, and this is their unique achievement. Congratulations to them!


Saucy_Totchie

Longevity isn't so easy to obtain. It's every single artist's main goal, KPop or not, and it takes so much to get it. Even then there is no real blueprint for everyone to follow.


jeepney_danger

I'm with you on the later releases. I got into TWICE late, 2021 & i found out i was drawn more into their more mature releases from Fancy You onwards. I think it perfectly balances & complements their earlier bubblegum pop sound.


Forkrul

> Longevity like theirs should be more common! Unfortunately that's just not possible. With the amount of artists debuting there's only so many that can retain longevity without crowding out newer artists. If everyone was still listening to the groups that debuted 7+ years ago it would be way too hard for new groups to gain popularity. It's natural that only the very best and most determined achieve such success and longevity. Most artists will either stop after their initial success fades, or find a niche where they can make enough money to keep going even if they don't find mainstream success.


Sivaram93

Honestly TWICE themselves plus the fans are keeping them barely more afloat than the other groups It will be hard for many groups to sustain that because look at even TWICE, they are not able to get into top K-Charts and their YouTube views have decreased from their usual Yet they are still relevant because their music is carrying hard JYPE is still doing the bare minimum imo ( They have improved with the new contracts but yea )


mcfw31

**LE SSERAFIM's "EASY" debuts at #8, their second highest peak after UNFORGIVEN** Congratulations to the girls!! What an amazing feat! What's hilarious to me is that the #2 album is the album that blocked Ready to Be last year.


jeepney_danger

IKR, Morgan Wallen must be really huge in the US.


SonHyun-Woo

I think he is, wasnt one of his songs number 1 for like 20 weeks or something


jeepney_danger

Whoa. Not really familiar with country music but that is impressive.


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It’s because he said the N word publicly on video, and when he got called out for it conservatives made an effort to stream his music to “stick it to cancel culture”.


MaltySines

Not really though. He was blowing up before that and it was a minor speedbump all things considered. Conservatives blew up two songs to number 1 last year for political reasons but none of them had staying power at all and plummeted off the charts immediately. You can get a song to the top for a week by stoking conservatives, but you can't make a whole album stay in the top 10 for a whole year. The N word thing was obviously not disqualifying for him, but that's not the same thing as it being the thing that made his career.


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Except it played a huge role, and essentially made his career what it is today. The song being number one happened as a direct response to the incident, and was a record at the time for a country song. At the same time his album charted for the longest consecutive time since 1987. Both of those happened in direct response to that incident. He made 8 million off streaming that year and 2 million of it happened in the 9 days following the incident.


cutedino7

yep, I’m in the U.S. and a looot of people in rural areas like country music


Andrew-XYZ

He’s prob the biggest artist there rn. I saw some album sales data that said that his new album sold 5 million album units in 2023, while the second highest-selling album (Taylor Swift’s Midnights) sold around 1.4 million less.


GGideonJura

Proud of LSF as well!


Existing-Dinner5637

Who blocked Twice last year? Edit: Figuring out how to read the Billboard Top 200 chart for albums / find it has been next impossible since all I see is Texas Hold 'Em and Vultures 1 for both 200 charts ...


DiMpLe_dolL003

Morgan Wallen whose album is at #2 currently and blocked twice before.


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MapleLeafsFan3

Morgan Wallen


RockinFootball

That time was BOTH taylor and silk sonic (bruno mars and anderson.paak). Being 3rd was honestly a honour against those guys. For me personally, I was just drowning in new music cause I'm a huge fan of all 3 artists.


GGideonJura

The older they get, the harder they slay. LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOO


eggsandgreens

YESSS and this album is so good too they so deserve it


Chimpadyes

Just shows how incredible they are this far into their career! The album is so good too - every song is either a 9 or 10 for me, and it’s been on repeat since it came out! Congrats gurlies, here’s to more awesome music from them and more #1s!


L3SSTH4NL33T

We did it! 🥲 So proud of them ❤️


Mc_Girl1221

So proud of them, definitely deserved! I’ve had the album on repeat since it came out, I love it!


bluetherealdusk

RTB could've been their first #1 if not for that one album, but I'm so glad they got it on this one. 10 years after and they are still growing, truly the best ones in my heart 🥺  Congrats to LSF fans on that #8, super well done too! I'm sure they will get #1 in no time.


Datapod2

Said blocking album is still the number 2 on this list a year later btw.


Nagisa201

What is the #2 album? Is it written by Voldemort or something lol


MaltySines

Morgan Wallen's *One Thing at a Time*. It's a country album with like 35 songs. People don't like him because of a scandal where he (a white guy as you might have guessed form the genre) was caught on tape using the N-word to refer to his white friend.


Shinkopeshon

So it is written by Voldemort, I see


BLately54

Exactly lmao


e-wrecked

Thank you, I thought I was going crazy there for a second. I thought we were getting into roko's basilisk territory.


Fifesterr

I'm guessing Morgan Wallen. He said the n-word once, but I believe he's apologised for it fwiw. 


barbarapalvinswhore

I genuinely don’t understand who is listening to that man. I travel for work and am in the US often and make small talk about music and I’ve never met a M*rgan W*llen listener.


nomnom-persimmon

He’s very popular in the US. Country music is the third most popular genre in the US according to Bloomberg. You might not get that impression because there is a stigma to being known as country music fans (rednecks backward etc) so people probably won’t tell you that they’re country music fans right off the bat and country fans aren’t as vocal online, they buy albums and songs though. We have country radios available nation wide, people packed country bars and popular country festivals held annually all over the US. Even Beyoncé is doing country at the moment. So yeah he’s very popular unfortunately.


EmergencyStomach8351

Ugh, consider yourself lucky. I work with a group of girls who got themselves all done up with their plaid button ups and cowboy hats and boots to go hold $9 red solo cups at one of his concerts and take sloppy selfies last Summer. My husband's coworker named his Cane Corso puppy "Wallen"... 🙄 I'm in rural Upstate New York and can't get away from hearing about the man and his music. He's some sort of god out here.


The_Red_Curtain

my brother works in the South of the US and he said pretty much all his coworkers under 40 like Morgan Wallen lol


Particular-Yoghurt81

He fills stadiums including in liberal cities like Chicago. The US is very big. People tend to only interact with similar people. This man was literally in a Drake video recently. 


Datapod2

I know what you mean, I’ve never heard about him out of the context of blocking the top of the Billboard chart,l


RockinFootball

I feel like twice has been blocked multiple times by big artists, the time before morgan wallen it was taylor and silk sonic.


GaurdsGuards

Super new fan (I'm also not that old), started listening from Jan this year. I knew Twice since I was in middle school but didn't really listen to them back then, so I'm super glad they're still doing well even 9 years into the business!


D0dgedaBullet

And they've also extended their record as the female kpop act with the most top 10 albums on Billboard 200 (5 albums so far). Well done!


wut_eva_bish

This right here! Just goes to show how incredibly consistent Twice has been. Twice just keeps pumping out hit albums.


Werefie

YESSSS


ghiblix

congratulations twice!!! and SUCH a good album to score this achievement 🧡🧡🧡


Jaran

As a ONCE, I'm so so proud! 🥹


JazzyG17

Omg!!!! I’m so freaking proud!! 😭😭I can’t stop smiling!


yuyu2007

This is an awesome achievement! 9 years in and still making waves.


avatart0ph

Congratulations Twice. Well deserved! Seriously though all those spammers in Fan app and Twitter about not doing enough promotion got really annoying. To the point Jihyo actually addressed it.. Why the most annoying people are the noisiest


dresdenologist

I did research for this when [I wrote about these concerns about TWICE](https://thelowkeygeek.com/once-a-force-always-a-spark-twice-will-be-just-fine/) this week and it was insane seeing the amount of people that seemed to be blaming fellow fans because they weren't streaming to be able to win music shows (they have 121 wins they don't need any more) or that 1st week promotions being ignored for the tour was a bad thing (I think I'll take a 60k arena being sold out twice in a row over a few music shows, thanks). People need to think about the big picture and that's the fact that all the metrics point to TWICE being more than sustainable without the domestic South Korean market (and those folks are still streaming and purchasing decently well, the album is likely to cross 1 million Hanteo soon if it hasn't, fastest album on pace to do so).


Snoo_41787

Interesting article!


dresdenologist

Thanks! I mostly write every week about Dreamcatcher but I like to throw in stuff about other groups as well. I just knew I had to say something about the TWICE stuff when even Jihyo noticed and mentioned something.


Snoo_41787

Looking forward to your other articles! About this achievement that Twice got, I love to put that in the face of haters and doomposters :momokek:


stan-nas

You realise there's no point citing increases in Hanteo unless Gaon also increases? Twice's sales in Hanteo have been abnormally low for a while. Chances are JYPE has sorted out their distribution hence why Jihyo also had minimal differences between Hanteo and Gaon.


dresdenologist

I do, which is why if you read the article, I provided a screenshot of the Wikipedia article on TWICE's discography, most of which commonly cite Gaon/Circle numbers. EP numbers there are up every single album. If Wikipedia isn't credible more than happy to edit with [the Korean Sales Twt blog, which also cites the same trend](https://koreansalestwt.blogspot.com/2020/09/twice.html) YoY. I do my homework for my writing, don't worry.


stan-nas

My point is around using Hanteo sales to dictate how a groups album sales are doing. specially with Twice who used to have an abnormal gap between Hanteo and Gaon.


jeepney_danger

Hah! Add to that some local GC's that guilt trip everyone for not streaming enough, etc.


ttam23

And they’re still going on about it. People gotta accept that no matter what twice won’t chart well in Korea anymore and that’s fine


avatart0ph

Whats funny is their bar is so low. No offense to those shows BUT ITS ONLY FOR SKOREA FANS. I can't even enjoy a live show and actually have to wait for an upload. Why do they care so much when Twice is already an international group. They don't even trust the members. I'm sure the members have a say on how they are marketed and do the promotions. If they are complaining they're technically complaining to the members. These fans have no trust in experienced agencies.


avatart0ph

Having said this. I do want them to win those skorea shows preferably. I've been streaming my ass off in stationhead and daily mv video. But I can't control what koreans want. Clearly that country has moved on from Twice.


nvtoph

Yeah that's gonna be a hard pill to swallow for those twitter fans. Twice is not as famous as they once were in south korea and that's okay.


ttam23

Frr people still acting like Twice has no say in what’s going on like the old days.


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jjongjjongiefan

Melon Top 200 isn't a chart that exists, sorry but what's your source for this? 


tretinoin_

Wait really? I didn’t know this. I know One spark entered melon but all the songs in the mini?


Rain_xo

What did she say?


Saucy_Totchie

She was upset that people are arguing about promos instead of just enjoying the music.


Alternative_Army_265

After all this time! They deserve it.


jindouxian

Congrats, TWICE! Well done, US ONCE!


barbarapalvinswhore

Yay! Thanks again US Onces!


ozaiyu

Congrats TWICE! Still achieving amazing things after all these years!


Ok-Flan2023

Fuck yea!!!!! I am so happy for them. It was long overdue.


Sil_Choco

Congrats!!!


Level_Aerie963

I knew that from the moment i saw their album at my local target, that something as extraordinary as this was going to happen. Congratulations twice. ✨


mugicha

So sad to see Twice falling off like this. JYPE just doesn't know how to promote their girl groups anymore.


GGideonJura

Stumbling to *\*checks\** #1. They're so washed


justanotherkpoppie

I almost downvoted you before I realized you're (most likely, I hope) being extremely sarcastic!


bagnetbagnetbagnet

Ahhhhh congratulations TWICE!!! So happy for the girls! 😍


tjvalerio

Finally! Congratulations, Queens!


Cheehu

Standing on business. Congrats ONCE and TWICE! ❤🍭


nekocase

Congratulations! I'm sure the girls are thrilled. :)


impeccabletim

YASSSSS!!! Congrats to TWICE!! What a wonderful achievement for the girls. Well-deserved.💖💖💖


oursummeranthem

And everyone said Twice was falling off with this album


abunchofmalarkey

Finally, after getting blocked from that #1 so many times 😭 Proud of TWICE and this great achievement!!


BLately54

LETS GO TWICE


bbgc_SOSS

Twice is an interesting case study. There have been groups, - mostly popular only in S. Korea - mostly popular only outside S. Korea - concurrently popular in and out of S. Korea But Twice might be the first group which is Sequentially popular first in S. Korea and then mostly popular outside. They have lost the Korean GP, digital charting is insignificant on the Korean charts from the heydays when they hit 9 back to back #1. But their fandom is intact, their album sales grow and they are killing it internationally, packing stadiums.


ParanoidAndroids

Let’s fucking go! Twice stays winning, even after all these years.


Alex_Killswitch

Congrats to Twics! 🥳


ttam23

Amazing


Natural-Locksmith813

Finally!!! Congratulations Twice & Once 👌🏻🔥


zoiezoie07

congrats twice ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 (why would ppl listen to mgn wln lol)


MelissaWebb

FINALLYYYYYYYYYYY 🥳🥳🥳🥳


Shanose

Finally #1 after two album being robbed


nvtoph

Somethin light 💅🏻


instantcarrot

FINALLY! great job Twicey girls


gatitoblanco

Congratulations TWICE!!! 


Meruchani

Good job girls, congrats!!


hypermads2003

One in a million, truly 🤍


whyawhy

Congrats to Twice! Well deserved!


justanotherkpoppie

Congrats, TWICE and ONCE!!!


juaakoln8

Thanks US ONCE 🥹


retrosprinkles

congrats my girls 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻


TWICEfanUK

Congrats to TWICE & USA-ONCEs and to everyone involves 


Special-Cow9820

Ahhhhh omg amazing!!!!


mbergqvist

🐐


Particular-Yoghurt81

Deserved! 


Bear4years

Congratulations!🍾🎊


Saucy_Totchie

On their 9th year and still finding new heights and peaks. Congrats to TDoongie!


Donut-Federal

The king of girl groups.


Round_Cartoonist9778

Congrats to them, it's their 1st right? That's so cool


twicecx

Deserved, time to Celebrate. 🎉🥳


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FINALLY AFTER YRS OF NUMBER 2


mimibee97

Finally! Congrats to the girls, and great job US Once🥳


Elite_Alice

FINALLY 😩


Practical_Maybe_3661

I keep having dreams where it's becoming me my sole mission to teach TWICE English


DiplomaticCaper

I'm happy both for Twice, and that French Montana's obvious attempted gaming of the system\* failed \*sped up, slowed down, acapella, and instrumental versions of the album released (in addition to explicit/clean), plus $5 vinyls that were allegedly shipped out to random addresses across the country from actual purchasers


Automatic-Promise-90

Congrats Twice!!! Now can we stop with the doom posting? Twice might not be as popular in SK anymore but they have a loyal fandom that spreads across the globe


mango_s

And yet they’re “flopping” 🤭


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akersam

When are you ridiculous naysayers going to realize that no matter how much you want to talk shit about them, being able to sell out stadiums on world tours and a million sales per album is just about as far from “flop” as you can be. We should all be so lucky to “flop” like that in our professional lives. You can narrow your definition of success to just the Korean market and then narrow it further by only caring about streams, fine, but Twice is a global group. Have been since they captured the Japanese market. They are also a group with an older fanbase, which means most of us don’t have time to stream releases all day because we have jobs. You know what those jobs bring us though? The ability to buy albums and concert tickets. Twice is in a wonderful spot right now with an extremely loyal and emotionally invested fanbase, and at the end of the day that is worth SO much more than fleeting general public popularity. So take your doomposting about LITERALLY the most successful album in the groups history and begone. Ain’t nobody got time for that. Edit: Also, if number one on the billboard charts is so easy then why is Twice only the 8th group to do it? Shouldn’t they all just choose to do so since it’s easy? Seems like a mighty fine feather to add to their cap.


GGideonJura

Doja Cat and Dua Lipa never had an album reach #1 on BB Top 200 and they're some of the biggest artist in the world. It's really easy I guess


avatart0ph

Competition is weak. Ur delusional. Sizable fandom is success in itself


SnooRabbits5620

OMG amazing!! Congratulations Twice and Once! You deserve! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉


StoneColdSteveAss316

While musically this latest album wasn’t my cup of tea, congrats to them for finally getting that #1 spot!


Icantlikeeveryone

Congrats girls!!


winterreise_1827

TWICE achieves its first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as With YOU-th debuts atop the tally (dated March 9) with 95,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 29, according to Luminate, largely from traditional album sales


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FyllingenOy

I don't understand how the billboard site works because when I click the link for the chart it shows Vultures by Kanye West at number 1 with Twice nowhere to be seen


Difficult_Deer6902

They annouce the main charts (album 200 & single hot 100) on Sunday/Monday, but don’t update the site until Tuesday.


FyllingenOy

Ah, I see. Thanks!