''Gateway'' is the seventh extended play by South Korean boy group Astro. It was released on May 4, 2020, by

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and distributed by

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. The album contains six songs including the lead single "Knock". This is their third number one album in

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Reception

The group re-entered the Emerging Artists chart at number 49. Upon the release of ''Gateway'', ''Billboard'' reported that the sextet gained 75,000 new

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subscribers, 24,000 new

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followers and 6,000 new

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page followers. The biggest music move Astro made was with new single "Knock" logging 312,000 on-demand US streams, in its first week available.

Commercial performance

The album debuted atop the

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for the week ending May 9, 2020. It also debuted at number 38 on

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's Hot Albums for the week ending May 18, 2020, and at number 15 on Top Download Albums. It also debuted at number 3 on the

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with 11,459 copies sold and peaked at number 3 on the Oricon Combined Albums Chart.

Reception

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Track listing

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Accolades

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