HYBE’s 2026 Billboard 200 Run: BTS, KATSEYE and ENHYPEN Reach No. 1
2026년 9월 1일
Three acts connected to HYBE’s multi-label system have topped the Billboard 200 in 2026. BTS, KATSEYE, and ENHYPEN reached No. 1 through BigHit Music, the HYBE–Geffen partnership, and BELIFT LAB respectively. These were separate chart achievements across the year rather than consecutive weekly victories, with each team reaching the top from a different stage of their career. BTS opened HYBE’s 2026 run with their fifth studio album, ‘ARIRANG.’ The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 dated April 4 after earning 641,000 equivalent album units in the United States. It became BTS’s seventh No. 1 album and recorded the largest weekly unit total for a group since Billboard introduced its current album-equivalent unit system in 2014. KATSEYE followed with their third EP, ‘WILD,’ which debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated August 29 with 170,000 equivalent album units. It was the global group’s first Billboard 200 chart-topper. During the same chart week, KATSEYE placed four songs on the Billboard Hot 100: ‘Animal’ at No. 24, ‘Hootie Frutti’ at No. 31, ‘PINKY UP’ at No. 81, and the LE SSERAFIM and ILLIT collaboration ‘ICONIC BY MISTAKE’ at No. 94. ENHYPEN became the third HYBE-affiliated act to reach No. 1 with their eighth mini-album, ‘THE SIN : BLISS.’ The album earned 98,000 equivalent units and debuted atop the Billboard 200 dated September 5, giving ENHYPEN their first No. 1 and seventh consecutive top-10 album. It also sold 2,099,048 copies in its first week on the Hanteo Chart. Title track ‘Bloody Paradise’ entered Spotify’s Weekly Top Songs Global chart at No. 59 and won first place on five major Korean music shows. The three results highlight the different roles within HYBE’s label network. BTS extended the record of an established global act, KATSEYE reached No. 1 through a joint American–Korean production system, and ENHYPEN arrived at the top after building a run of Billboard 200 top-10 albums. Together, their achievements gave HYBE three distinct Billboard 200 success stories in 2026.