BTS leader RM has hit all the right notes at the right time. His solo adventure is sailing a well-deserved sea of success, giving him his highest debut on the acclaimed music charts of Billboard rankings.
Exposing his unfiltered and expectation-defying mindset, Kim Namjoon’s latest solo project, ‘Right Place, Wrong Person’ is an introspective collection of 11 tracks. The 94 liner released his second solo album on May 24. And now, Billboard is also fueling the fire of his well-planned stardom, showing several career-high achievements on the music charts.
Hitting one of the best milestones of his solo career so far, the BTS leader’s ‘Right Place, Wrong Person’ landed at No. 1 on this week’s Top Rap Albums chart. After offering numerous rap verses on an endless array of BTS albums and his own solo songs, it was the second offering from BTS’ main rapper that earned him his first No. 1 ranking on this chart during his entire solo journey.
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Not only that. ‘Right Place, Wrong Person’, an important and significant commercial, also earned him other best awards of his career. According to Billboard, RM’s latest record also peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 chart. In 2022, his previous project, ‘Indigo’ also opened the doors to the top 10 on the Billboard 200 by gaining the upper hand at No. 3.
In addition, Namjoon reached No. 2 on the Alternative Digital Song Sales chart after featuring on Fall Out Boy’s ‘Champion’ in 2017-18. This time, two songs from his latest solo effort marked the second and third entries of his career, as ‘Heaven’ and ‘TT TT (Credits Roll)’ debuted at No. 2 and 3, respectively. ‘Heaven’ also ranked No. 3 on Rock Digital Song Sales, marking his second entry on the chart after ‘Champion’.
The list doesn’t end here. Three songs from RM’s album, ‘Nuts’, ‘Growin’ and ‘Domodachi’ ft Little Simz, made it to the World Digital Song Sales chart. These top-ranking tracks have now expanded his collection of career solo No. 1s as if they were Pokemon. Prior to his 2024 No. 1 debut with ‘Nuts’, RM topped the World Digital Song Sales chart with ‘Winter Flower’ with Eunha (2010), ‘Don’t’ with E.O.N. (2021), Balming Tiger, ‘Sexy Nukim’ with Omega Sapienum BJ WNJN & Mud the Student (2022) and ‘Wild Flower’ with Eugene (2022).
Other albums from K-pop artists scored big on Billboard this week
As the latest addition to the renowned series of compilation albums, ‘Now That’s What I Call K-Pop’ earned three Billboard rankings this week. With fans’ mesmerizing love taking over its sales, this new collection of music debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Compilation Albums chart.
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In addition, K-Pop-File also made it to the Top Album Sales chart at No. 17. Luminate reported that the title sold 4,499 copies. In addition to all this, the title also made it to the World Albums chart and is now at No. 5. It includes tracks from K-Pop giants including Seventeen, Aespa, Stray Kids, TWICE, and more.
Ranking of K-pop albums on the Billboard World Albums Chart
@billboardcharts has confirmed that aespa’s first full-length album ‘Armageddon’ landed at No. 4 on the World Albums Chart this week, giving the girl group their fifth consecutive Top 5 appearance on the list.
On the June 8 list, Tomorrow X Together’s ‘Minisode 3: Tomorrow’ went strong and reached No. 2. It was followed by Seventeen’s best album ’17 Is Right Here’ at No. 3, marking some consistent winners on this chart.
NEWGEN’s “Get Up” finished behind aespa’s latest album at 5th place, while HYBE’s rookie girl group ILLIT ranked at 7th with their debut offering “Super Real Me.” Industry heavyweights BTS remained in the top 10 entries with their 2022 anthology album “Proof” and landed at 8th place.
BTS was followed by Stray Kids at number 9 with ‘Rock-Star’. Le Seraphim topped the K-pop rankings on the chart with their EP ‘Easy’ at number 10. Next, Jimin’s ‘Face’, TWICE’s ‘With U-th’, ENHYPEN’s ‘Orange Blood’ and BoyNextDoor’s ‘How?’ made it to the World Albums chart at number 11, 12, 13 and 14.
