{"id":144183,"date":"2025-06-24T10:05:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T17:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=144183"},"modified":"2025-06-24T10:19:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T17:19:04","slug":"ateez-scores-a-top-100-in-the-united-states-tying-bts-and-stray-kids-amid-fraud-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/ateez-scores-a-top-100-in-the-united-states-tying-bts-and-stray-kids-amid-fraud-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"ATEEZ scores a top 100 in the United States, tying BTS and Stray Kids, amid fraud claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ATEEZ<\/strong> just achieved a huge milestone: their new track &#8220;<strong>Lemon Drop<\/strong>&#8221; debuted at No. 69 on the United States\u2019 Billboard Hot 100 on June 23. This makes them the third K-pop boy group, after <strong>BTS<\/strong> and<strong> Stray Kids<\/strong>, to do so. The song, part of their \u201cGOLDEN HOUR: Part 3\u201d mini-album, racked up over 1.2 million Spotify streams and 24 million YouTube views in ten days.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kchartsmaster\/status\/1937246324866617355\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cLemon Drop\u201d by ATEEZ debuts at #69 on this week\u2019s Billboard Hot 100. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yXNFTcaYvs\">pic.twitter.com\/yXNFTcaYvs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kpop Charts (@kchartsmaster) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kchartsmaster\/status\/1937246324866617355?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 23, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But with the celebration came backlash! Some online commentators accused ATEEZ of inflating sales by releasing &#8220;random CDs&#8221; with member faces at <strong>Target<\/strong>, sparking claims that their chart position had been fraudulent. However, loyal ATINYs jumped in to defend their idols, pointing out that ATEEZ\u2019s strong physical sales had boosted their position, despite lower digital stream counts compared to competitors from larger labels.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jkcasstien\/status\/1937387151110623411\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"da\" dir=\"ltr\">Fraudteez <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wMhjDZ78Td\">pic.twitter.com\/wMhjDZ78Td<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Neyra (@jkcasstien) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jkcasstien\/status\/1937387151110623411?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Their album also landed at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, cementing their status as one of K-pop\u2019s biggest breakout acts. Whatever the whispers, ATEEZ are making some big noise, and with passionate fans behind their back, their rise doesn\u2019t seem to be slowing down any time soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATEEZ just achieved a huge milestone: their new track &#8220;Lemon Drop&#8221; debuted at No. 69 on the United States\u2019 Billboard Hot 100 on June 23. This makes them the third K-pop boy group, after BTS and Stray Kids, to do so. The song, part of their \u201cGOLDEN HOUR: Part 3\u201d mini-album, racked up over 1.2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":144188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16],"tags":[924,49,1074],"class_list":{"0":"post-144183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"tag-ateez","10":"tag-bts","11":"tag-stray-kids"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}