Tomorrow x Together's repackaged album "The Chaos Chapter: Fight or Escape!" has debuted at No. 8 on Billboard 200 shortly after its Aug. 17 release, making it the third South Korean group to re-enter the top 10 of the Billboard charts following BTS and Blackpink.

The boy band, commonly known as TXT, released its second album "The Chaos Chapter: Freeze" in May, which eventually debuted at No. 5 on Billboard 200. It went on to spend nine consecutive weeks on the chart, making it the longest-charting K-pop album of the year, according to Soompi.

The original album also occupied the No. 1 spot on Billboard's top album sales and world albums tallies in June. With the release of the repackaged album, the U.S. sales of the original one rose by 667%, earning a total of 47,000 equivalent album units during the week ending on Aug. 23, reported Soompi.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S., based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. According to Billboard, units are counted through album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit corresponds to one album sale or 10 individual tracks sold from an album or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album.

Only recently, BTS made it to the Top 10 of Billboard Hot 100 twice, thanks to its summer track "Butter."

Prior to this, Blackpink's musical collab track with Selena Gomez, "Ice Cream," made it to No. 8 in September 2020 followed by "Lovesick Girls" which peaked at No. 2 in October 2020. Both songs are part of "The Album," the all-female quartet's first full-length album.

TXT was formed in 2019 by Big Hit Music, the same record label that manages BTS. Its members include Yeonjun, Soobin, Huening Kai, Beomgyu and Taehyun.

TXT's repackaged album features three new songs led by "LO$ER=LO♡ER." The music video of the song dropped on the group's official YouTube channel on Aug. 17 and has since received more than 19 million views from fans worldwide.

"LO$ER=LO♡ER" is about navigating youth as part of the Gen Z crowd. "[The song] expresses the desire of wanting to be your lover — my healer and salvation — and to be each other's savior, even if you have to appear to be like a loser in the eyes of the world," Yeonjun told Teen Vogue in an interview earlier this month.

Also included in the repackaged album is "MOA Diary (Dubaddu Wari Wari)," which the boy band dedicates to TXT fans collectively known as "Moments of Alwaysness" or "MOA," and the emocore mix of "0X1=LOVESONG (I Know I Love You)."

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