{"id":554929,"date":"2026-03-30T21:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/554929\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:39:08","slug":"bts-scores-seventh-no-1-on-hot-100-and-billboard-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/554929\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS Scores Seventh No. 1 on Hot 100 and Billboard 200"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBTS<\/a> has scored yet another No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with their latest single \u201cSwim,\u201d the publication announced Monday, as the K-pop supergroup also topped the Billboard 200 with their reunion album, Arirang<\/a>. This marks the seventh time the group has taken the top sport on the Hot 100 and Billboard 200 charts.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe seven-member outfit returned for their first album in nearly four years last week, following a group hiatus to complete mandatory military enlistment in their home country of South Korea. Fans of the group, known collectively as ARMY, have been anxiously awaiting the group\u2019s return since then. \u201cSwim\u201d brought in 15.3 million official streams and 25.8 million radio airplay audience impressions, according to Billboard<\/a>. The single sold 154,000 digital and physical singles combined. It\u2019s unclear if any of BTS\u2019 other songs from Arirang debuted on the chart at this time; the full Hot 100 is typically released on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

\n\tArirang finished week one with 641,000 equivalent album units earned, according to Billboard<\/a>, which marks the largest debut for an album this year and the best opening by a group since the chart began measuring by units in 2014. In terms of traditional album sales, BTS had the biggest debut week for a group in over a decade with 532,000. They came close to dethroning One Direction, who debuted their 2013 album Midnight Memories with 547,000 in pure sales, according to Billboard.<\/p>\n

\n\tArirang\u2019s debut was BTS\u2019 biggest sales week yet on the chart. It was also the group\u2019s biggest streaming week yet, per Billboard. Arirang marks the biggest week for an album in both units and pure sales since Taylor Swift dominated the charts with The Life Of A Showgirl last year.<\/p>\n

\n\tA historic trailblazer in the globalization of K-pop, BTS celebrated their return last week with a Netflix live stream<\/a> comeback performance in front of Gwanghwamun, the main gate and historic entryway to Seoul\u2019s Gyeongbokgung Palace. That venue choice was no coincidence, as the new album is in many ways a meditation on the group\u2019s cultural identity.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe album\u2019s name,\u00a0Arirang, pays tribute to a treasured Korean folk ballad of the same name, which was famously the country\u2019s first song, sung by Korean men, ever recorded (it was preserved for posterity by American ethnologist Alice Fletcher in 1896). Motifs from the original Arirang feature prominently in the closing minutes of the new album\u2019s opening track, \u201cBody to Body.\u201d One of the most striking tracks on the album is \u201cNo. 29,\u201d a song made up only of the sound of a bell being tolled once, with the resonant ringing lasting a minute and 38 seconds. The bell used for the recording is Korea\u2019s original, 1,255-year-old Divine Bell of King Seongdeok. The song\u2019s title is a reference to the historic object\u2019s official designation as \u201cSouth Korea\u2019s National Treasure No. 29.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Friday, the group released a documentary on Netflix, which chronicled the group\u2019s balancing act during the making of Arirang as the band looked to honor its roots in Korea even as their audience has expanded to encompass the entire world. <\/p>\n

\n\tBTS made their return to U.S. late night television last week, appearing on two nights of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. The first night found the group as the guest and musical host, staging a performance of their single \u201cSwim\u201d at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. The second episode featured a performance of the group\u2019s song \u201c2.0,\u201d also filmed at the museum.<\/p>\n

\n\tBTS is currently preparing to embark on their first full-scale, all-group tour in years. The tour, spanning 2026 and 2027, will hit Asia, North America, Europe, Latin America and Australia, making it one of the most expansive tours of the group\u2019s career.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe tour will kick off with three nights in Goyang, South Korea, before heading to Tokyo for two nights. BTS is set to then head to the U.S. for a stop in Tampa. The group then zigzags around the world with U.S. stops sprinkled throughout. The group is anticipated to make 82 stops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BTS has scored yet another No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with their latest single \u201cSwim,\u201d the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[229439,92201,88,25702,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-554929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-arirang","9":"tag-bts","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-k-pop-news","12":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}