{"id":174394,"date":"2026-08-25T12:24:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T19:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=174394"},"modified":"2026-08-25T12:24:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T19:24:56","slug":"katseye-earns-their-first-1-album-on-the-billboard-200-with-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/katseye-earns-their-first-1-album-on-the-billboard-200-with-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"KATSEYE earns their first #1 album on the Billboard 200 with WILD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KATSEYE<\/strong> reached the top of the American charts when their latest EP, <strong>WILD<\/strong>, debuted at #1 on the<strong> Billboard 200<\/strong> chart dated August 29, 2026. The 5-track project earned 170,000 equivalent album units in the United States during the week ending August 20, according to Luminate. It marks the girl group\u2019s first #1 release and their second top-10 release after Beautiful Chaos peaked at# 4 in 2025 on the same chart. Reacting to their EP reaching thech<\/p>\n<p>WILD also became the fourth album by an all-female group to reach #1 on the Billboard 200 this decade. It followed releases by previous girl groups, including TWICE&#8217;s With YOU-th (2025), NewJeans&#8217; Get Up (2023), and BLACKPINK&#8217;s Born Pink (2022). The album recorded 145,000 pure sales, giving KATSEYE its biggest sales week so far. It also posted the largest weekly unit total for an all-female group since Billboard began using equivalent album units in December 2014.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: WILD\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/2d0AkZUJV30oIOJAeEyzC6?si=fw38p-_2SaGBCzxCNJ5EFA&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Much of the album\u2019s sales came from more than 30 CD and vinyl versions that included collectible items, signed editions, randomized photocards, and a bonus track titled \u201cUnloveu,\u201d written by member Lara. WILD was supported by two songs that entered the Billboard Hot 100. \u201cPinky Up\u201d reached #28 in April, while \u201cAnimal\u201d peaked at #24 on the August 8 chart.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KATSEYE reached the top of the American charts when their latest EP, WILD, debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart dated August 29, 2026. The 5-track project earned 170,000 equivalent album units in the United States during the week ending August 20, according to Luminate. It marks the girl group\u2019s first #1 release and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":174429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,7,4],"tags":[3392],"class_list":["post-174394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-news","category-pop","tag-katseye"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174394","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=174394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174431,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174394\/revisions\/174431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}