{"id":492074,"date":"2026-03-24T05:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T05:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/492074\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T05:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T05:53:13","slug":"bts-swimming-towards-hat-trick-of-number-1-albums-with-arirang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/492074\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS swimming towards hat-trick of Number 1 albums with ARIRANG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ALBUM COVER.jpg\" alt=\"ARIRANG ALBUM COVER\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\"\/><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{1a4292d5-2312-48ee-a473-a83d4792d09e}{28}\" paraid=\"1969805088\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{1a4292d5-2312-48ee-a473-a83d4792d09e}{28}\" paraid=\"1969805088\">BTS\u2019s closest competition comes courtesy of\u00a0North Carolina\u00a0country\u00a0star\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/51732\/luke-combs\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Combs<\/a>, who\u00a0looks to land a personal best with\u00a0The Way I Am\u00a0(2).\u00a02023\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/albums\/luke-combs-gettin-old\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Gettin\u2019 Old<\/a>\u00a0is Combs\u2019 highest-charting record in the UK to date (5).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{1a4292d5-2312-48ee-a473-a83d4792d09e}{30}\" paraid=\"1199816099\">Elsewhere,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/4871\/jane-mcdonald\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Jane McDonald<\/a>\u00a0is cruising her way towards\u00a0her highest-charting album in\u00a028 years, since her self-titled 1998 debut,\u00a0with\u00a0Living The Dream\u00a0(5).\u00a0It\u2019s on course to\u00a0earn the Wakefield\u00a0multihyphenate her fifth Top 10 album overall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{1a4292d5-2312-48ee-a473-a83d4792d09e}{32}\" paraid=\"2054002296\">And finally, with its release on physical formats,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/62744\/zach-bryan\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Zach Bryan<\/a>\u2019s sixth studio LP\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/albums\/zach-bryan-with-heaven-on-top\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">With Heaven On Top<\/a>\u00a0vaults\u00a073 spots midweek to Number 25. The album reached Number 3\u00a0on its release in January.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/charts\/albums-chart-update\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">See the full Official Albums Chart Update Top 100 here from 5.45pm.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Images: BIGHIT MUSIC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 BTS\u2019s closest competition comes courtesy of\u00a0North Carolina\u00a0country\u00a0star\u00a0Luke Combs, who\u00a0looks to land a personal best with\u00a0The Way I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[29334,96,31389,39981,128,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-492074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-bts","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-jane-mcdonald","11":"tag-luke-combs","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}