First K-pop group to reach No.1 on the US albums chart (female)

On 1 October 2022, Born Pink, the second full-length studio album by BLACKPINK (South Korea), became the first K-pop album by a female act to make No.1 on the US Billboard 200. The quartet shifted 102,000 album-equivalent units in the first week to debut at the top of the chart. BLACKPINK followed all-male groups BTS, SuperM and Stray Kids to the summit.

As of 14 January 2023, BTS had scored six No.1 albums on the Billboard 200: Love Yourself: Tear (2018); Love Yourself: Answer (2018); Map of the Soul: Persona (EP) (2019); Map of the Soul: 7 (2020); Be (2020); and Proof (2022). SuperM – The First Mini Album (EP) (2019), by the seven-piece supergroup SuperM, and the Stray Kids EPs Oddinary and Maxident, both from 2022, have also landed K-pop at the top of the US chart. All of these No.1s are by all-male groups.

Born Pink was the first US No.1 by an all-female group since Danity Kane’s Welcome to the Dollhouse on 5 April 2008.