Group ENHYPEN has once again proven its global popularity by rising to the top of the U.S.Billboard main album chart.

Billboard, an American music media outlet, announced on its official homepage on the 15th(local time)in a preview article that Enhypen(Jungwon, Heeseung, Jay, Jake, Sunghoon, Sunwoo, Niki)’s 6th mini album ‘DESIRE : UNLEASH’ entered the ‘Billboard 200’ (June 21)at 3rd place.

With this, ENHYPEN has made a record of having five consecutive albums enter the top 10 of the Billboard 200, starting with ‘MANIFESTO : DAY 1’, followed by ‘DARK BLOOD’, ‘ORANGE BLOOD’, ‘ROMANCE : UNTOLD’, and this album.Their steady growth is also notable in that this is their eighth time entering Billboard.

‘DESIRE : UNLEASH’ recorded the second highest initial album sales of the year with over 2.14 million copies K.It topped not only the Korean album charts, but also Japan’s Oricon’s ‘Weekly Combined Album Ranking’, ‘Weekly Album Ranking’, and ‘Weekly Digital Album Ranking’, and also took first place on Billboard Japan’s ‘Top Album Sales’, ‘Hot Albums’, and ‘Download Albums’ charts, showing overwhelming performance.

They continued their momentum on music shows.On the 15th, ENHYPEN won first place on SBS ‘Inkigayo’ with their title song ‘Bad Desire(With or Without You)’, achieving three crowns on a music show.They said, “This is our first win on ‘Inkigayo’.We are grateful to our fandom Engine(ENGENE)who always cheers us on.ENHYPEN will show you an even better side in the future.”


Reporter Jang Eun- eunj@donga.com

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