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BTS’ ‘ARIRANG’ Logs Third Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200

The streak points to a comeback powered by a global rollout across stages and screens.

Overview

  • Billboard said Sunday that ARIRANG stayed No. 1 for a third straight week with 124,000 equivalent units, based on Luminate data.
  • ARIRANG is the first K-pop album to spend three weeks at the summit and the first by any group to do so since Mumford & Sons’ Babel in 2012–13.
  • The week’s total included 71,000 album sales, 50,000 streaming-equivalent units equal to 52.44 million plays, and 3,000 track-equivalent units, keeping it No. 1 on Top Album Sales.
  • Lead single “Swim” slipped to No. 2 on the Hot 100 as BTS held 10 slots on the chart, and 13 tracks from the album ranked inside the top 40 on both Billboard global tallies.
  • The comeback campaign paired a free Seoul concert streamed on Netflix that drew 18.4 million Live+1 viewers with a tour opening in Goyang that drew about 132,000 fans, as Luminate counted 739.1 million first‑week global audio streams.