ILLIT Scores First Billboard 200 Top 10 as 'BREAK EVEN' Debuts at No. 6

ILLIT's BREAK EVEN debuts at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 dated Nov. 14, the group's first top 10 on the chart, Billboard reported. The arrival puts the group in the middle of a top 10 led by Olivia Rodrigo, with Michael Jackson's Thriller climbing 13-2 behind her on the same list, per Billboard's chart report.

Rodrigo's you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love rises 2-1 for a fourth nonconsecutive week at No. 1, earning 57,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the tracking week ending Nov. 5, down 10%, according to Luminate. BigXthaPlug takes his third top 10 with Better Over Time at No. 7, and Queens of the Stone Age collect their fifth with Perfecth at No. 10 on the same chart.

K-pop on the Billboard 200 this week

• No. 6: BREAK EVEN, ILLIT (debut). The group's first top 10 on the Billboard 200, and a first-week placement that lands between Thriller at No. 2 and Better Over Time at No. 7.

Higher ground on the list belongs to a short roll of K-pop acts. Stray Kids have nine No. 1 titles on the Billboard 200, the most among K-pop acts, with BTS second at seven and ATEEZ next at three. ENHYPEN's THE SIN: BLISS was the 26th album or EP by a K-pop act to reach No. 1 in just over eight years, a run that opened with BTS' Love Yourself: Tear in June 2018, according to Billboard's tally.

Stray Kids' ninth came with THIS & THAT on the chart dated Aug. 22, when the album moved 369,000 equivalent album units, the group's biggest week by units. Its title cut also gave the group its first Hot 100 top 40 hit, debuting at No. 38 with 4.3 million official U.S. streams and 23,000 sold, Billboard reported.

ILLIT's No. 6 is an album-chart result, and K-pop's Hot 100 history runs back further than its Billboard 200 success: Wonder Girls' "Nobody" was the first K-pop song to enter the Hot 100, in 2009, per Wikipedia's list of K-pop songs on the Billboard charts, 17 years before ILLIT's top 10.