TODAY'S TOP STORYNOV 9 • 19 MIN

ILLIT Breaks Into the Billboard 200 Top 10: "Break Even" Debuts at #6

ILLIT just cracked the Billboard 200 top ten for the first time, as their fifth mini album "Break Even" debuted at #6 with 37,000 album units. That is a 20-spot jump from their previous best and makes them only the seventh K-pop girl group ever to reach the top ten. They have also passed 20 million monthly listeners on Spotify. Elsewhere, Big Bang had to cut short their XX: Cosmos stop in Bangkok when heavy rain and strong winds hit the stadium, and G-Dragon promised fans they would meet again. Taeyeon announced her fourth studio album "Unspecial," a 12-track release, while TWS topped the weekly Hanteo Chart with about 825,000 copies of "TO US." Plus, SM Entertainment confirmed a data breach, and Lee Chang-dong's Netflix film "Possible Love" made history with the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice International Film Festival.

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ILLIT Breaks Into the Billboard 200 Top 10: "Break Even" Debuts at #6