Billboard said last Sunday that the album ranked first after earning 187,000 equivalent album units for the week ending Dec. 19 in the U.S.
It praised the eight-member band achieved a historic milestone by securing the top spot on the chart with six consecutive albums, a feat unprecedented "in the nearly 69-year history of the chart."
Prior to "Hop," Stray Kids had also topped Billboard's main albums chart with "Oddinary" and "Maxident" in 2022, "Rock-Star" and "5-Star" in 2023, and "ATE" in July this year.
The octet gained widespread attention even before their official debut, as they were finalists on their namesake survival audition show "Stray Kids," which aired on music cable channel Mnet in 2017.
They were also the first boy band groomed by K-pop impresario Park Jin-young, about four years after GOT7, a seven-member group that debuted in 2014.
In 2023, TIME magazine named Stray Kids as one of the "next-generation leaders" along with a score of global trailblazers and entrepreneurs.
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