{"id":367885,"date":"2026-03-27T10:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T10:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/367885\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T10:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T10:50:07","slug":"bts-blasts-to-no-1-on-aria-chart-with-arirang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/367885\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS Blasts to No. 1 on ARIA Chart With \u2018ARIRANG\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBTS<\/a> is back. And they\u2019ve been very much missed in Australia, where ARIRANG (via Virgin Music Group\/Geffen) opens its account at No. 1.<\/p>\n

\n\tARIRANG leads the latest ARIA Albums Chart<\/a>, published Friday, March 27, and is the week\u2019s best-seller on vinyl, ARIA<\/a> reports. With its hot start, ARIRANG becomes the K-pop superstars\u2019 third leader. All told, the septet has landed seventh top 10 albums here: Love Yourself: Tear (No. 6 in 2018), Love Yourself: Answer (No. 9 in 2018), Map Of The Soul: 7 (No. 1 in 2020), Map Of The Soul: 7 \u2013 The Journey (No. 9 in 2020), Be (No. 2 in 2020) and Proof (No. 1 in 2022).<\/p>\n

\n\tOver on the ARIA Singles Chart, BTS has the top debut with \u201cSwim\u201d diving in at No. 4. It\u2019s their sixth top 10 single, after \u201cBoy With Luv\u201d (No. 10 in 2019), \u201cDynamite\u201d (No. 2 in 2020), \u201cButter\u201d \u201c(No. 6 in 2021), \u201cPermission To Dance\u201d (No. 6 in 2021) and \u201cMy Universe\u201d with Coldplay (No. 7 in 2021). The Bantang Boys also crack the new ARIA Top 50 with \u201cBody To Body\u201d (new at No. 26), \u201cHooligan\u201d (No. 46) and \u201cFYA\u201d (No. 48).<\/p>\n

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\n\tBTS\u2019 Australian ARMY will be rewarded next year when the group\u2019s world tour<\/a> in support of ARIRANG visits Melbourne (Feb. 12 and 13), and Sydney (Feb. 20 and 21). Venues and ticketing information for those shows, presented by Live Nation, are listed as \u201cstay tuned\u201d and fans are encouraged to register for the waitlist<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, U.S. country star Luke Combs<\/a> debuts at No. 3 on the ARIA Chart with The Way I Am (Columbia\/Sony). It\u2019s his sixth studio album, all of which have reached the top 20, with What You See Is What You Get (2019) hitting No. 1 and Growin\u2019 Up (2022) and Gettin\u2019 Old (2023) both reaching No. 2.<\/p>\n

\n\tAdelaide, South Australia rock band Bad\/\/Dreems<\/a> bow at No. 5 on the Albums Chart with Ultra Dundee (Gutto Records), their fifth studio album. That\u2019s a career chart best for the band, whose previous top performer was No. 10 for 2023\u2019s Hoo Ha!.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso new to the chart is Morgan Evans<\/a>\u2019 Steel Town (Virgin Music Group\/Inertia), at No. 17. It\u2019s the ARIA Award winning country artist\u2019s third album after his self-titled debut from 2014 (No. 20) and 2018\u2019s Things That We Drink To (2018). Evans\u2019 Steel Town<\/a> tour starts in April.<\/p>\n

\n\tOlivia Dean<\/a> extends her reign over the ARIA Singles Chart<\/a> with \u201cMan I Need\u201d (Universal), the No. 1 song for 19 consecutive weeks. That\u2019s the second-longest streak at No. 1 on the ARIA Chart by any song, with the exception of Tones And I\u2019s \u201cDance Monkey,\u201d which completed 24 non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 in 2019 and 2020.<\/p>\n

\n\tFinally, Tame Impala<\/a>\u2019s \u201cDracula\u201d (Columbia\/Sony) spreads its wings. The Deadbeat cut is up 8-7 for a new peak position, doing so in its 22st chart week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BTS is back. And they\u2019ve been very much missed in Australia, where ARIRANG (via Virgin Music Group\/Geffen) opens…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[110690,36565,13724,321,3850,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-367885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-aria","9":"tag-bbcharts","10":"tag-bbnews","11":"tag-celebrities","12":"tag-charts","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}