Chart archive: Billboard rankings dated August 22, 2026. Stray Kids’ This and That entered the Hot 100 at No. 38, the group’s first top-40 entry. This report records the debut week, measured from August 7 to 13; it does not claim that No. 38 is the song’s current position or eventual peak.
The debut-week numbers
Billboard’s Gary Trust reported the singles result in his August 18 chart roundup. The same week also brought a No. 1 debut for the full THIS & THAT release on the Billboard 200. These are separate charts, not two ways of ranking the same item.
- Song, Hot 100: No. 38; 4.3 million official U.S. streams and 23,000 purchases, combining physical and digital song sales.
- Album, Billboard 200: No. 1; 369,000 U.S. equivalent album units.
- Album-unit breakdown: 357,000 traditional album sales, 11,000 streaming-equivalent units and 1,000 track-equivalent units, as detailed by Billboard Japan.
What the two results can tell us
The single’s 23,000 purchases are not the album’s 357,000 sales. Likewise, 4.3 million streams are plays of the title track, while streaming-equivalent album units are a converted measure for the release. Adding these numbers together would mix different objects and units.
Using the published rounded figures, traditional sales account for approximately 96.7% of the album’s opening equivalent units: 357,000 divided by 369,000. That calculation describes the composition of the album result. It does not establish the share of the Hot 100 position attributable to sales, nor does it count unique listeners.
The useful distinction is therefore narrower than a claim that Stray Kids had suddenly become streaming-led. The title track reached a new singles-chart threshold, while the album opening remained strongly sales-led. Both can be true without either result explaining the other.
Nine album leaders, measured at that date
THIS & THAT was Stray Kids’ ninth Billboard 200 No. 1. Billboard reported that all nine of their charting albums had entered at the top, beginning with ODDINARY in 2022. At the time, the total tied the Rolling Stones among groups, behind the Beatles’ 19 leaders.
Those debut records describe an opening-week history. They do not show how many weeks this particular release would stay at No. 1 or whether the single would sustain its position. Answering either question requires later dated charts, not a prediction based on this first week.
The release campaign is a separate story
For the tracklist, STAY anniversary release and teaser chronology, see our THIS and THAT rollout dossier. This archive keeps the chart evidence together without repeating that release guide or presenting concerts announced for August as still upcoming.