Katseye and Phoebe Bridgers top the Billboard 200 this week
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Katseye and Phoebe Bridgers top the Billboard 200 this week

Matt Keenan

Katseye and Phoebe Bridgers are sitting atop this week’s Billboard top 200, with the K-pop superstars hitting the mark for their first career No. 1, and the singer-songwriter’s return after six years landing her a spot for her first solo top 10.

Katseye’s third EP, Wild, debuted at No. 1 with 170,000 equivalent album units, including 145,000 in pure album sales, marking the group’s biggest chart week to date. The five-track EP is led by the singles “Pinky Up” and “Hootie Frutti,” the latter of which also entered the Hot 100 this week. Wild is the fourth No. 1 album this decade by an all-woman group, following releases from BLACKPINK, NewJeans, and TWICE. Katseye previously peaked at No. 4 with 2025’s Beautiful Chaos, after its 2024 debut EP, SIS (Soft Is Strong), opened at No. 98. 

Just behind the K-pop icons is another icon herself; Bridgers’ Lost Weekend debuted at No. 2 with 118.000 equivalent album units, her best week ever by that measure. The album also marks her first entry into the Billboard 200’s top 10 as a solo artist. Traditional sales made up 77,000 of that total, while on-demand streams of the album’s songs topped 41.6 million.

Lost Weekend was released across 16 physical formats, including CD, vinyl, and cassette editions, and is Bridgers’ first solo studio album since 2020’s Punisher. In the years since she also charted with the trio boygenius with Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus, with their 2023 album, The Record, peaking at No. 4. 

Matt Keenan

New York, NY

former english minor and barista turned music writer and photographer

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