Twice climbed to No. 2 on the US Billboard main chart 'Billboard 200'.
Twice is the second K-pop girl group to rank second, following Blackpink's first full-length album, The Album, in 2020 which ranked second on the Billboard 200. According to Billboard's announcement on its official social media channel on March 20th, TWICE's new mini-album 'READY TO BE' released on March 10 ranked second on the US Billboard 200.
In particular, the total sales of albums and streaming reached 153,000 copies. This is the highest figure ever for a K-pop girl group, and compared to the 100,000 copies of the previous and 11th mini-album 'Between One and Two', it has risen significantly.
Not only that, but it is also high compared to the sales volume (102,000 copies) that Blackpink made last year when they ranked #1 on the Billboard 200 with their 2nd regular album 'BORN PINK'.
The new album broke its own record by exceeding 1.7 million pre-orders as of March 7th and recorded its own record on the album aggregation site Hanteo Chart's Album Weekly Chart (March 6-12) and Circle Chart's 2023 10th Week Retail Album Weekly Chart (March 5-12). 11) took first place.
Meanwhile, from April, Twice will launch its 5th largest world tour, 'READY TO BE'. Starting with the 2nd Seoul performance held at KSPO DOME (Olympic Gymnastics Stadium) in Songpa-gu on April 15 and 16, Sydney, Australia on May 3 (local time), Melbourne, Australia on May 6, Melbourne on May 13-14, Osaka, Japan on May 20 Tokyo on June 21st, Los Angeles, the USA on June 10th, Auckland on June 13th, Seattle on June 16th, Dallas on June 21st, Houston on June 24th, Chicago on June 28th, Toronto in Canada on July 2nd, New York on June 6th, Atlanta on July 9th in Korea, holding 17 solo concerts in 14 cities in Australia, Japan, and North America.