{"id":389408,"date":"2026-04-13T06:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T06:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/389408\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T06:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T06:46:10","slug":"bts-bts-arirang-spends-third-week-at-no-1-on-billboard-200-chartspends-third-week-at-no-1-on-billboard-album-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/389408\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS’ BTS’ ‘Arirang’ Spends Third Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200 ChartSpends Third Week at No. 1 on Billboard Album Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBTS<\/a>\u2018 \u201cArirang\u201d is at No. 1 on the Billboard 200<\/a> album chart for the third frame in a row, with little competition coming along to usurp it in a slow week for new releases. Prior to this album, BTS had never spent more than one week at No. 1 the U.S. album rankings, so a high-water mark was already set for the K-pop group last week, with this third time at the top just extends the ARMY-pleasing streak.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cArirang\u201d scored 124,000 equivalent album units for the week ending April 9, as reported by Luminate and Billboard<\/a>. That\u2019s down just 34% from the previous week, when the album racked up 187,000 units. Two weeks ago, in its debut, BTS\u2019 album earned 641,000. That was the highest debut this year, and the best opening figure since Taylor Swift released a new album last October.<\/p>\n

\n\tBillboard notes that the last time a group scored three weeks at No. 1 was in 2012-13, when Mumford & Sons did it with \u201cBabel,\u201d which ultimately spent five weeks on top.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe figures for \u201cArirang\u201d this week break down mainly to 71,000 physical or digital albums sold, and another 50,000 equivalent album units coming from streaming (based on 52.44 million on-demand streams of the songs from the album).<\/p>\n

\n\tLast week\u2019s No. 2 album, Ye\u2019s \u201cBully,\u201d slipped to No. 3, with 69,000 units, down by 54%. Although \u201cBully\u201d debuted more modestly than virtually all albums by Ye (formerly Kanye West<\/a>), the drop-off wasn\u2019t terrible, suggesting that the controversy over Ye being dropped from a festival in the U.K. over his former antisemitic statements may not be affecting the trajectory of the album one way or another.<\/p>\n

\n\tMorgan Wallen\u2019s perennial blockbuster \u201cI\u2019m the Problem\u201d moved back up two spots to claim the No. 2 spot this week, with 80,000 units added to its tally, representing a slight 5% increase as the country star\u2019s new stadium tour got underway.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt No. 4 is Don Toliver\u2019s \u201cOctane,\u201d with 57,000 units, a four-spot jump and a 7% increase based on new physical editions of the album being released.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe remaining spots in the top 10 belong to Olivia Dean\u2019s \u201cThe Art of Loving\u201d at No. 5 (50,000 units), Luke Combs\u2019 \u201cThe Way I Am\u201d at No. 6 (46,000), and Bad Bunny, an older Wallen album, and the latest releases from Harry Styles and Bruno Mars at Nos. 7-10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BTS\u2018 \u201cArirang\u201d is at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart for the third frame in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2644,1845,146,85,46,18221,409],"class_list":{"0":"post-389408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-billboard-200","9":"tag-bts","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-kanye-west","14":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}