
"THIS & THAT" notches a seventh week on top, while BOYNEXTDOOR's 'HOME' sets a new Billboard 200 milestone for the group.

Stray Kids are back at No. 1 on Billboard's World Albums chart, as THIS & THAT logs its seventh week in the top spot, though not in a row.
The ranking covers the week ending Oct. 17, Soompi reports. The mini album also rebounded to No. 29 on the Billboard 200 in its ninth straight week there, and the group's 2025 release KARMA rose to No. 21 in week 56 on World Albums.
ENHYPEN's THE SIN : BLISS bounced back to No. 2 in its seventh week and moved up to No. 122 on the Billboard 200.
BOYNEXTDOOR's first studio album HOME returned at No. 3 after the arrival of its repackage, HOME: DELUXE, giving it 11 total weeks on the chart. It also came back onto the Billboard 200, the first BOYNEXTDOOR album to spend more than one week there.
&TEAM's Korean mini album Mark on Me, which earned the group its first World Albums No. 1 a week earlier, slipped to No. 4 in week three. ALPHA DRIVE ONE entered at No. 5 with UNBREAKABLE : 少年BEAST.
CORTIS claimed the next two positions: GREENGREEN sat at No. 6 in its 23rd week, and COLOR OUTSIDE THE LINES climbed back to No. 7 in its 57th. ILLIT's MAMIHLAPINATAPAI placed No. 8, also in week 23, and LE SSERAFIM's PUREFLOW rose to No. 10 in its 20th week.
BTS charted two catalog titles. The 2020 Japanese album Map of the Soul: 7 ~The Journey~ jumped to No. 11 in its 49th week, and the 2018 album Love Yourself: Answer re-entered at No. 15 for its 205th week.
Further down, EVAN (Heeseung)'s first mini album DEATH OF ME landed at No. 14 in week five, and ATEEZ's GOLDEN HOUR : Part.5 ranked No. 17 in its 15th week. aespa's LEMONADE took No. 19 in its 19th week, with NewJeans' 2023 EP Get Up at No. 20 in its 161st.
For fans catching up on the newest entry, BOYS II PLANET, the survival show that formed ALPHA DRIVE ONE, is available to stream on Viki.
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