{"id":699866,"date":"2026-05-28T10:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/699866\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T10:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:57:09","slug":"bts-arirang-stays-in-top-10-of-billboard-200-for-9th-consecutive-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/699866\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS&#8217; &#8216;Arirang&#8217; stays in top 10 of Billboard 200 for 9th consecutive week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                Published: 28 May. 2026, 17:31\n                            <\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Boy band BTS [BIGHIT MUSIC]\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4a1e7b71-8e61-4906-8dca-d2916688af42.jpg\" data-reuse=\"allowed\"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Boy band BTS [BIGHIT MUSIC]<\/p>\n<p> \u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/> K-pop mega band BTS remained in the top ranks of the Billboard 200 for the ninth consecutive week with the group&#8217;s latest album, &#8220;Arirang.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/> \u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/> The group&#8217;s fifth studio album ranked No. 10 in the latest tracking week, down two spots from the previous week, according to the chart posted on Billboard&#8217;s website Wednesday. The Billboard 200 ranks the most popular albums of the week in the United States.<br \/>\n<br \/> \u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/> <br \/>\n \u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/> \u201cArirang\u201d previously made history as the first album by a K-pop act to spend three weeks at No. 1 following its release in March.<br \/>\n<br \/> \u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/> Led by the lead single &#8220;Swim,&#8221; the 14-track album marks the band&#8217;s first release after a four-year hiatus caused by its members&#8217; mandatory military service.<br \/>\n<br \/> \u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/> \u201cSwim\u201d placed 55th on the Hot 100 chart, Billboard&#8217;s main singles chart.<br \/>\n<br \/> \u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/> Meanwhile, Hybe&#8217;s Japan-based boy band &amp;TEAM entered the Billboard 200 for the first time, ranking No. 52 with &#8220;We On Fire.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/> \u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/> On the Hot 100, &#8220;Dracula,&#8221; a song by Australian psychedelic rock project Tame Impala featuring Blackpink&#8217;s\u00a0Jennie, ranked No. 25, according to Billboard. <\/p>\n<p>Yonhap<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published: 28 May. 2026, 17:31 Boy band BTS [BIGHIT MUSIC] \u00a0 K-pop mega band BTS remained in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-699866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}