Jung Hoseok, popularly known as J-Hope’s ‘Jack in the Box’ ranked 17 on the US Billboard’s Top album under ‘Billboard 200’, according to the charts released by Billboard. The album was initially released on July 15th. The famous rapper first topped the Billboard 200 back in 2018 with the group’s album, 'Love Yourself: Tear', and the series of topping continued, as follows, until June of this year, 'Love Yourself Answer', 'Map of the Soul: Persona' and 'Map Of the Soul: 7', 'BE', and 'Proof', etc., topped the charts in a row.
Additionally, J-Hope became the first Korean solo artist to have two albums in the top 40 of the Billboard 200. In March 2018, his first mixtape 'Hope World' ranked 38th on the 'Billboard 200'. J-hope ranked 81st on the 'Hot 100' with 'Chicken Noodle Soup' in collaboration with American singer Becky G in 2019. Also, 'MORE', one of the double title songs of this album and a pre-release song, placed 82nd on 'The hot 100'. J-Hope is the fourth singer to enter the Billboard 200 and Hot 100 at the same time as K-pop singers, both as a group and solo. Previously, BTS, Suga, and BLACKPINK created similar records. He is the second Korean solo singer after Suga.
Previously, with this same album, J-Hope entered 67th place on the UK's official album chart 'Top 100', which is known as the world's two largest pop charts along with the US Billboard chart. J-Hope will participate as the main stage headliner at the American music festival 'LOLLAPALOOZA' held at Grand Park in Chicago, Illinois, the USA on July 31st. Making it the first time for a BTS member to appear solo at a large festival.
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