Overview
- The album, which Billboard confirmed Sunday, stays atop the Billboard 200 with 187,000 equivalent units in the week ending April 2, marking the first time a K‑pop act has led the chart for two straight weeks.
- Luminate reports 114,000 in album sales, 65,000 in streaming units, and the remainder from track sales, following a 641,000‑unit debut that remains 2026’s biggest opening week.
- Ye’s Bully opens at No. 2 with 152,000 units and Melanie Martinez’s Hades starts at No. 3, while Arirang logs the longest No. 1 run of BTS’s seven Billboard 200 leaders.
- On Spotify, Arirang hits 1 billion streams in 16 days, the fastest by any group and any Asian act, with all 14 tracks filling the platform’s global daily top 14 as new listeners surged by about 690% on release day.
- The campaign now shifts to the stage, with a world tour starting April 9 in Goyang after a free comeback concert at Seoul’s Gwanghwamun Square was streamed on Netflix and a behind‑the‑scenes documentary premiered.