Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Ateez may have missed out on securing their first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart with their latest release, The World EP.

Ateez joins BTS and Stray Kids as the only South Korean groups to land more than one No. 1 album on ... [+] the Billboard 200 as Golden Hour: Part 2 debuts on top. SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 14 ...

I'm satisfied that we could craft this new ... Hearing things like, 'This is different from the last one,' or 'Only Ateez could pull this off,' is what we value. We wanted to bring that to this ...