Billboard said in a chart preview posted on its website on the 29th (local time) that BTS’ fifth full-length album, “ARIRANG,” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, ahead of Luke Combs’ “The Way I Am” and Morgan Wallen’s “I’m The Problem.”
The result gives BTS its seventh No. 1 album on the chart.
The Billboard 200 ranks albums by total album units, combining physical and digital album sales, streaming equivalent albums (SEA) and track equivalent albums (TEA).
“ARIRANG” posted 641,000 album units during the tracking week, the biggest total for any group since Billboard began measuring the chart by album units in December 2014.
Billboard said the figure is the largest since Taylor Swift’s “The Life of a Showgirl,” which debuted last year with about 4 million album units.
BTS first topped the Billboard 200 in 2018 with “LOVE YOURSELF 轉 Tear,” becoming the first K-pop act to reach No. 1. The group later returned to the top with “LOVE YOURSELF 結 ANSWER” (2018), “MAP OF THE SOUL : PERSONA” (2019), “MAP OF THE SOUL : 7” (2020), “BE” (2020) and “Proof” (2022).
* This article has been translated by AI.
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