Boy Band BTS Becomes First K-Pop Group To Top US Billboard 200

(CNN) — South Korean boy band BTS has become the first K-pop group to top the US Billboard 200 chart, with the debut of their new album, “Love Yourself: Tear.”
The album was released on May 18 and sold 135,000 total copies in its first week, including 100,000 traditional album sales. That makes this debut the second-biggest of 2018, just behind Migos’ “Culture II”, which sold 199,000 copies in its first week.
It’s also the first foreign-language album to