K-Pop Girl Group Red Velvet Debuts on Billboard 200 Charts By SM Entertainment’s critically renowned K-pop act showed its global impact with the latest ranking. The girl group has enjoyed domestic popularity since its debut, but its recent success indicates it is also gradually gaining fame in the United States. debuted in 2014.
Since the group’s debut, two of their studio albums and over ten extended plays topped South Korea’s Gaon Album chart. The group also snagged the highest prize in K-pop, (grand prize), four times: 2019 Asia Artist Awards Song Of The Year Grand Prize, Golden Disc Awards Song Of The Year Digital Daesang in 2016, 2018, and 2021. K-pop girl group Red Velvet enters Billboard 200 charts with mini-album Cosmic Red Velvet’s 2024 comeback EP, Cosmic, has ranked 145th in the Billboard 200 weekly chart.
This impressive feat marks Red Velvet’s first-ever entry to this chart. Previously, the act ranked number four on the Billboard US World Chart and one on the Billboard US Heat Chart. Red Velvet earns their first entry on the Billboard 200 with ‘Cosmic.
’ Billboard 200 is among the most challenging charts for stars to crack. The chart primarily focuses on physical sales in the United States. Only a handful of K-pop artists have been able to top the chart, including BTS, Stary Kids, BLACKPINK, TXT, and Seventeen.
Apart from ranking within the top 10 of the Billboard 200, several artists ranked in the Billboard 200, such as BoA, Girls’ Generation, EXO.