Jennie Joins Jimin, Jung Kook And Rosé In An Exclusive Club

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Blackpink's Jennie sees her solo album Ruby hit 10 weeks on the Billboard 200, becoming just the ... More fourth K-pop soloist's project to manage double-digit stays. NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 01: Jennie Kim attends The 2023 Met Gala Celebrating "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line Of Beauty" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 01, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by)
Like her three Blackpink bandmates, Jennie released a solo album not long ago, right before the group began rehearsing for its world tour, which is set to kick off later this year. The superstar dropped Ruby in March, and the set didn't just earn a lofty debut and then disappear — it has been holding on for months now in America.
As the set manages one more stay on an important albums ranking, the woman behind it joins a very exclusive club.
Ruby drops nearly 40 spaces on the Billboard 200 this week. The full-length, which shifted another 8,800 equivalent units, according to Luminate, dips from No. 159 to No. 192 on the ranking of the most consumed full-lengths and EPs in the country.
While it's very much on the decline, it's the length of time that Ruby has managed on the Billboard 200 that is important and noteworthy.
As of this frame, Ruby has spent 10 weeks on the Billboard 200. It is just the fourth album in U.S. history to rack up double-digit stays on the competitive roster, when looking only at K-pop soloists.
When narrowing that view to female solo K-pop acts, two of the four members of Blackpink make the cut. Rosé's almost self-titled Rosie is in a distant first place among this small collection. That set, which is also still present on the Billboard 200, has now spent 23 frames somewhere on the tally.
His BTS bandmate Jung Kook claims the second-longest charting title among all K-pop soloists on the Billboard 200. His only solo full-length Golden made it to 25 turns on the tally before slipping away.
Rosé's Rosie is being powered largely by the single "Apt.," her collaboration with Bruno Mars. That tune is still present on not just the Hot 100, but also the Streaming Songs, Radio Songs, and Digital Song Sales charts this week. If consumption of that smash — as well as the project in full — continues, Rosie could tie Jung Kook's Golden in just two weeks and match as the second-longest charting album by any K-pop soloist in the history of the Billboard 200.