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BTS’s album Arirang stayed at No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 for a second consecutive week.
On April 6, Billboard reported on its website that Arirang, the group’s fifth studio album, topped the Billboard 200 chart dated April 11. The second straight week at No. 1 made BTS the first Korean act to hold the chart’s top spot for two consecutive weeks.
Billboard reported, “This week, Arirang logged 187,000 album units. Of those, 114,000 were traditional album sales (physical and digital purchases). SEA units (streaming-equivalent album units) accounted for 65,000, and TEA units (track-equivalent album units from digital song downloads) made up the remaining 8,000.”
The album first hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 dated April 4, becoming the group’s seventh chart-topping release. It debuted with 641,000 album units — the biggest weekly total for a group album since Billboard began tracking units in December 2014 — including 532,000 in pure album sales, the highest weekly sales figure for a group album in more than a decade.
Released March 20, Arirang continued to dominate global charts into its second week, signaling a sustained run. In Spotify’s weekly charts updated April 4 (tracking period: March 27–April 2), BTS held the No. 1 spots on the global Weekly Top Albums, Weekly Top Songs and Weekly Top Artists charts for a second consecutive week.
According to ARIA on April 3, the album also remained No. 1 on Australia’s Top 50 Albums chart for a second week. It reached No. 2 on Germany’s Offizielle Deutsche Charts (April 3) and No. 2 on France’s SNEP Top Albums (tracking period: March 27–April 2). In the U.K., it landed at No. 4 on the Official Albums Top 100 for April 3–9.
At home, the title track “SWIM” has kept the group’s momentum. Without appearing on broadcasts, BTS collected nine music show trophies across SBS’s Inkigayo, MBC’s Show! Music Core, KBS2’s Music Bank, Mnet’s M Countdown and MBC M’s Show! Champion.
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