{"id":553013,"date":"2026-03-29T21:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T21:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/553013\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T21:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T21:13:10","slug":"bts-arirang-debuts-at-no-1-on-billboard-200-albums-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/553013\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS’ ‘ARIRANG’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBTS<\/a>\u2019 ARIRANG debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200<\/a> albums chart (dated April 4), scoring the reunited<\/a> pop group its seventh leader. The set opens with 641,000 equivalent album units earned \u2014 the largest week for an album by a group since the chart began measuring by units in December 2014. Of that sum, 532,000 are in pure album sales (purchases of physical and digital albums), landing BTS the biggest sales week for an album by a group in more than a decade.<\/p>\n

\n\tARIRANG follows BTS\u2019 previous No. 1s Proof (2022), BE (2020), MAP OF THE SOUL : 7 (2020), MAP OF THE SOUL : PERSONA (2019), Love Yourself \u2018Answer\u2019 (2018) and Love Yourself \u2018Tear\u2019 (2018).<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200<\/a> chart, Luke Combs<\/a> captures his seventh top 10 set, as The Way I Am bows at No. 2.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 2,500 ad-supported or 1,000 paid\/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new April 4, 2026-dated chart will be posted in full on\u00a0Billboard\u2018s website on March 31. For all chart news<\/a>, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.<\/p>\n

\n\tOf ARIRANG\u2019s 641,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, pure album sales comprise 532,000 (the group\u2019s biggest sales week ever; it debuts as BTS\u2019 seventh No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 95,000 (equaling 99.10 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s songs, BTS\u2019 biggest streaming week ever for an album; it debuts at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise the remainder.<\/p>\n

\n\tBTS claims the biggest week for an album by units earned since Taylor Swift\u2019s The Life of a Showgirl debuted at No. 1 with an historic<\/a> 4.002 million units on the Oct. 18, 2025-dated chart. BTS has the biggest week for any album by a group, by units, since the Billboard 200 began ranking by equivalent album units in December 2014.<\/p>\n

\n\tBy pure album sales (purchases of physical and digital download albums), BTS has the biggest sales week for any album since Showgirl started with 3.48 million copies sold. The last group to have a larger sales week was One Direction, with the debut week of Midnight Memories (547,000 sold, Dec. 14, 2013-dated chart).<\/p>\n

\n\tARIRANG\u2019s first-week sales number was largely powered by physical sales (516,000) bolstered by its availability across 17 vinyl variants and nine CD editions, all of which have the same tracklist. (All contain collectible items such as photocards, stickers and posters.) Vinyl sales accounted for 208,000 \u2014 BTS\u2019 best sales week on vinyl and the largest by a group in the modern era (since Luminate began electronically tracking sales in 1991). It\u2019s also the sixth-largest vinyl sales week for an album in the modern era; Taylor Swift has the top five. The biggest week for a vinyl set in the modern era was registered by the opening week of Showgirl, with 1.334 million.<\/p>\n

\n\tARIRANG\u2019s release date of March 20 was announced<\/a> on Jan. 1, though its title was not revealed<\/a> until Jan. 16. The album was ushered in alongside the global live Netflix special BTS THE COMEBACK LIVE | ARIRANG on March 21. The set\u2019s lead single, \u201cSWIM,\u201d was released simultaneously with the album, and the track\u2019s music video premiered the same day. Later in the release week, BTS performed on NBC\u2019s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, on March 25 and 26.<\/p>\n

\n\tNext month, the BTS WORLD TOUR \u2018ARIRANG\u2019 will launch on April 9 in Goyang, South Korea, and arrive in the United States on April 25 in Tampa, Fla. The trek will continue through the U.S. and Mexico through May 28, before heading overseas. The tour returns to the U.S. on Aug. 1 and is set to wrap its U.S.\/Canada dates Sept. 6 in Inglewood, Calif.<\/p>\n

\n\tLuke Combs collects his seventh top 10-charted album on the Billboard 200, as The Way I Am arrives at No. 2 with 101,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 76,000 (equaling 77.66 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s songs; it debuts at No. 2 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 23,000 (it debuts at No. 2 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise the rest.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe album was preceded by seven charted hits on Billboard\u2019s Hot Country Songs chart, three of which reached the top 10: \u201cBack in the Saddle,\u201d \u201cSleepless in a Hotel\u201d and \u201cBe by You.\u201d All three have also reached the top 10 on the Country Airplay chart, with \u201cBack in the Saddle\u201d topping the list for two weeks in November.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Way I Am adds to Combs\u2019 top 10 total on the Billboard 200, following Fathers & Sons (No. 6 peak in 2024), Gettin\u2019 Old (No. 4, 2023), Growin\u2019 Up (No. 2, 2022), What You See Is What You Get (No. 1, 2019), The Prequel (No. 4, 2019) and This One\u2019s for You (No. 4, 2018).<\/p>\n

\n\tARIRANG and The Way I Am are the only debuts in the top 10 on the latest Billboard 200. Of the eight remaining titles in the top 10, just one is not a former No. 1 (Olivia Dean\u2019s The Art of Loving at No. 6).<\/p>\n

\n\tMorgan Wallen\u2019s I\u2019m the Problem falls 2-3 (76,000 equivalent album units earned, up 4%), Harry Styles\u2019 Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. slips 1-4 in its third week (64,000, down 35%) and Don Toliver\u2019s Octane rounds out the top five, rising 6-5 (55,000, down 2%).<\/p>\n

\n\tDean\u2019s The Art of Loving climbs 7-6 (54,000 equivalent album units, down 2%), Bad Bunny\u2019s DeB\u00cd TiRAR M\u00e1S FOToS falls 5-7 (53,000, down 7%), Bruno Mars\u2019 The Romantic is a non-mover at No. 8 (45,000, down 16%), Wallen\u2019s One Thing at a Time rises 12-9 (38,000, up 7%) and the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack is steady at No. 10 (36,000, down 4%).<\/p>\n

\n\tLuminate, the independent data provider to the\u00a0Billboard\u00a0charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with\u00a0Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.<\/p>\n


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