K-Pop · ChartsFP-038 · Side A
CORTIS Return to the Billboard 200 With No New Release
GREENGREEN came back at No. 90 on the chart dated November 7, seven weeks after it dropped off and nearly six months after it came out.
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CORTIS have no new album out, and they are back on the Billboard 200 anyway. The group's second EP, GREENGREEN, returned at No. 90 on the latest chart after seven weeks away, The Korea Herald reported. That takes it to 19 total weeks on the main albums chart.
The EP came out in May and debuted at No. 3, then logged 18 consecutive weeks before falling off, per the Herald.
What the other charts show
On the same chart week, GREENGREEN ranked No. 1 on World Albums and No. 5 on Top Album Sales, The Korea Daily reported. It has now spent 26 straight weeks on World Albums.
The gap between No. 5 on a sales chart and No. 90 on the main chart points to physical buying more than streaming. None of the reports give a reason for this week's return, and Music Times notes that a re-entry only means an album's weekly activity rose enough to qualify again.
It is also not the first late surge for this record. In August, in its 13th week, the EP jumped from No. 114 to No. 39 and reached No. 2 on Top Album Sales, Soompi reported.
The numbers behind it
The six-track EP sold over 2.3 million copies in its first week and more than 4 million units by August, and it had reached 500 million Spotify streams as of October, per the Herald. Its No. 3 debut came nine months after the group's debut, the shortest such run for a K-pop group, according to The Korea Daily.
A long chart run is the reverse of the campaign-first model First Press looked at in The Rollout Is the Album Now: here the record keeps moving after the campaign has ended. How K-pop acts hold a US audience is the wider question in K-Pop's English Test.
What comes next
CORTIS head into award season as nominees for artist, album and song of the year at the Melon Music Awards at Gocheok Sky Dome on November 15, followed by the 2026 MAMA Awards at Kyocera Dome Osaka on November 20 and 21 and Fuji TV's FNS Music Festival on December 2, The Korea Daily reported.
The same chart week also brought a first for ATEEZ: the prerelease single "Drip" entered the Global 200 at No. 190, the group's first opening-week entry on that chart, ahead of the EP Golden Hour: Part 6 on November 13, The Korea Herald reported.