SEVENTEEN has reached a new peak on the Billboard 200 chart with their newly repackaged album ‘Sector 17’.
on 31st July, Board announced that the 13-member boyband’s re-packaged album ‘Sector 17’ debuted at number four on the weekly album chart, their highest-charting entry to date.
‘Sector 17’, which dropped on 18 July, earned a total of 34,000 equivalent album units. Board, Of these, 31,000 included album sales while the remainder consisted of streaming and track equivalent units.
The album was a re-release of Seventeen’s fourth studio effort ‘Face the Sun’, and included lead single ‘World’, pre-release track ‘Cheers’, B-side ‘Circle’, as well as a Korean-Japanese single of their 2020 Language version of ‘Fallin’ Flower’.
“Face the Sun” debuted at number seven on the Billboard 200 following its release in June and peaked at number seven, making “Sector 17” the act’s second top 10 entry of 2022. In a four-star review of the record, NME Abby Webster wrote that ‘Hot’ “forges into new territory with its brazen sexuality – but, as proven by the familiar yet exquisitely inventive B-sides of ‘Face the Sun’, SEVENTEEN has to start from scratch. do not require.”
In a recent interview, Seventeen dancer Hoshi revealed that all 13 members of the group had “serious discussions” before renewing their contract with Pledis Entertainment last year. “All the members are on the same page of ‘Let’s Be Seventeen Together’ and we talked a lot about the details,” Murthy explained.
“It was a bit strange to have such a serious conversation with the friends I sing, dance and work with,” Hoshi admitted. “However, instead of avoiding that moment, we faced it, negotiated, and were able to grow.”
