The group joins related acts NCT and NCT 127 in having led the list. NCT Dream, the seven-member sub-unit of NCT, leaps 9-1 on Billboard's Emerging Artists chart (dated May 9) to become the top emerging act in the U.S.
for the first time. The group leads on the strength of its new EP Reload, which debuts at No. 7 on the World Albums chart with 2,000 equivalent album units, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data.
The EP's "Ridin'" concurrently debuts at No. 19 on the World Digital Song Sales chart, marking the group's ninth entry and first this year.
NCT Dream, which is signed to SM Entertainment, has sent three other EPs onto World Albums: We Young (No. 3, 2017), We Go Up (No.
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