Meet the First Timers on Our Charts This Week
This week: an eight-member Korean boy band, an up-and-coming Canadian country singer, the bassist from 5 Seconds of Summer and more.
Across Billboard’s 200-plus charts this week (dated June 28, 2025), a diverse group of artists debut for the very first time. It’s a list that includes an eight-member Korean boy band, an up-and-coming Canadian country singer, the bassist from 5 Seconds of Summer and more.
Take a look at the eclectic bunch below.
The eight-member Korean pop group enters the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time this week with its new single “Lemon Drop.” The song is the lead single from the group’s new five-track, EP GOLDEN HOUR : Part.3, which debuts at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 105,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States between June 13-19, according to Luminate.
While this is the act’s first appearance on the Hot 100, ATEEZ has long been a powerhouse in the K-pop world. Since forming in 2018, the group has placed 16 titles on the World Albums chart — all of which reached the top 10, with the last nine hitting No. 1. That gives ATEEZ the third-most No. 1s in the chart’s history among K-pop acts, after only BTS (13) and SEVENTEEN (11).
Most No. 1s on the World Albums Chart Among K-Pop Acts
13, BTS
11, SEVENTEEN
9, ATEEZ
8, TOMORROW X TOGETHER
7, ENHYPEN
7, NCT 127
6, Stray Kids
6, TWICE
5, EXO
ATEEZ has also charted nine albums on the Billboard 200, including two No. 1s: THE WORLD EP.FIN : WILL (2023) and GOLDEN HOUR : Part.2 (2024). The group is one of only three K-pop acts (along with BTS and Stray Kids) to have multiple No. 1s on the Billboard 200.
ATEEZ isn’t the only act to chart for the first time this week. Take a look at some other First-Timers below:
Josh Ross
Canadian country singer Josh Ross also arrives on the Hot 100 for the first time this week, thanks to his breakout single “Single Again,” which debuts at No. 97. The song, released on The Core Entertainment/Universal Music Canada/Mercury Nashville, debuts with 20.6 million radio airplay impressions (up 6% week-over-week) and 1.8 million official U.S. streams.
The song has also been a slow-builder Country Airplay, where it climbs to a new peak of No. 9 in its 64th week. It took exactly 60 weeks for it to reach the top 10, wrapping the third-longest trip to the region since the chart launched in January 1990 (after Brett Young’s “You Didn’t” took 70 weeks in 2023 and Chase Matthew’s “Love You Again” took 62 weeks in 2024). The track also jumps 35-31 on the all-genre Radio Songs chart.
Ross, 29, hails from Ontario and has been rising in country music since the early 2020s. He’s already charted six songs on the Canada Country airplay chart — all of which reached the top five, while one, 2023’s “Trouble,” hit No. 1.
Before pursuing music, Ross was a college football star at Western University in Ontario, until injuries sidelined his career. “I got to the point where I thought, ‘Do I keep forcing through the injuries of sports or do I pursue this thing I’m definitely falling in love with?’” he told Billboard in a 2023 interview. He moved to Nashville in 2019 and signed with The Core three years later.
Calum Hood
Calum Hood, best known as the bassist for 5 Seconds of Summer, makes his solo Billboard chart debut this week with his first album under his own name, ORDER chaos ORDER.
Released via EMI/Capitol/ICLG, the album debuts at No. 179 on the Billboard 200 with 9,000 equivalent album units earned in its opening week — including 5,000 in vinyl sales. The strong vinyl performance helps the album also debut at No. 5 on the Vinyl Albums chart. Hood also enters at No. 1 on the Emerging Artists chart, thanks to the album, not only making his solo debut but also claiming his first No. 1 as a solo artist.
5SOS has had an impressive run over the last decade. The band has charted seven albums on the Billboard 200, six of which reached the top five and three of which hit No. 1: 5 Seconds of Summer (2014), Sounds Good Feels Good (2015) and Youngblood (2018). The group has also charted 15 hits on the Hot 100, including the 2018 top 10 “Youngblood.”
Hood is now the third member of 5SOS to chart on Billboard as a solo act. Drummer Ashton Irwin reached No. 77 on Top Current Album Sales with Superbloom in 2020, while vocalist Luke Hemmings has charted two solo projects: his debut solo album When Facing the Things We Turn Away From reached No. 124 on the Billboard 200 in 2021 and No. 10 on Alternative Albums, and his EP Boy peaked at No. 99 on the Billboard 200 and No. 11 on Alternative Albums in 2024. Hemmings also hit No. 1 on Emerging Artists in 2024.
The fourth member of 5SOS, guitarist Michael Clifford, is slated to release his debut solo album Sidequest, in July.
Mama Duke
After appearing on the June 17 episode of American’s Got Talent season 20, Austin-based rapper-singer Mama Duke makes her Billboard chart debut. Performing her original track “Feels So Good To Be You,” she earned four yesses from judges Simon Cowell, Sofia Vergara, Mel B and Howie Mandel.
The track debuts at No. 4 on the Dance Digital Song Sales chart with 1,000 downloads sold in its first week of release, helping Mama Duke also debut at No. 50 on the Emerging Artists chart.
The artist (real name: Kori Roy) joins a growing list of America’s Got Talent contestants who have charted on Billboard — a list that includes Grace VanderWaal, Jackie Evancho and Lindsey Stirling.
For more on the Billboard charts, click here. Check out last week’s first-timers here.
What is Billboard looking at? The entire K-pop community is shocked that flopezz got to 69th place when they weren't even close to the top 100 predictions. They don't even have streams! They're not on any American charts! Billboard, change the rules, don't turn us into suckers
Ateez are scammers. With literally 0 US streams, no US chart hits, they SUDDENLY hit 69. They weren't even predicted. The Aespa fandom is already planning on using this dirty trick. Ateez fans don't even have a clue how the Billboard charts work. They can't tell the difference between bb200 and bb100.