BTS & Ye Dominate Billboard 200, Melanie Martinez Debuts

It's April 5th.

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BTS is holding strong at number 1 on the Billboard 200 for a second straight week with

their album R-Rang.

It racked up 187,000 equivalent album units, down 71% from its massive debut of 641.

Thousand.

This marks their 7th number 1 album overall.

Meanwhile, Y-Away, once known as Kanye West, lands at number 2 with his new release,

Bully.

Scoring 152,000 units right out the gate, album sales alone hit 56,000, making it his

14th top 10 entry.

It's a solid show despite the controversies, but it snaps his long streak of number 1 solo

debut.

For BTS, R-Rang now owns their longest reign at the top, topping the one week runs of

their past leaders.

It also nosh the biggest opening week for any group album in over a decade, proving their

global poll is unmatched.

Y-Away dropped Bully on March 28th after some delays, and he even previewed tracks that

sold out SoFi stadium shows in LA this week, mixing in old.

Hits too.

Elsewhere, Melanie Martinez starts at number 3 with Hades and 84,000 units, her 4th top

10 project.

The rest of the top 10 shakes up with Morgan Wallen sliding to 4, y-8 bowing at 5, and

spots 6 through 10 going to Luke Combs, Olivia Dean.

Don Tolliver, Bad Bunny, and Harry Styles.

The chart battles like this keep the music game alive and kicking.