Blackpink’s ‘Born Pink’ returns to Billboard 200 after three weeks

K-pop group Blackpink’s second studio album “Born Pink” returned to the Billboard main album chart Billboard 200 after three weeks.

“Born Pink” was pushed out of the rankings for a while after reaching 140th on the Billboard 200 chart on Dec. 10, but returned to the chart by ranking 186th this week, according to Billboard on Wednesday local time.

With this, “Born Pink” has been named on the Billboard 200 chart a total of twelve times.

On this week’s Global 200, NewJeans’ new song “Ditto” ranked 36th, the highest K-pop song on the chart. This is the highest ranking that the ADOR label under the HYBE group has ever recorded on Global 200.

NewJeans’ debut song “Hype Boy” ranked 131st on the same chart and remained on the chart for 20 consecutive weeks.

Fellow HYBE girl group Le Sserafim’s “Antifragile” ranked 94th on the Global 200, up six notches from the previous week.

SM Entertainment’s boy band NCT Dream’s “Candy,” which topped domestic charts, also entered the Global 200 at No. 198.

BY LIM JEONG-WON [lim.jeongwon@joongang.co.kr]