BTS Just Did Something No K-Pop Act Has Done Before. ARIRANG Stays at No. 1 for a Third Week.
ARIRANG spent a third consecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, Billboard confirmed Monday. The album earned 124,000 equivalent album units in the week ending April 9 - down 34% from the previous week, but enough to hold off Morgan Wallen's I'm the Problem (80,000 units) and Ye's Bully (69,000 units). No K-pop act has spent three weeks at No. 1 on the chart. The previous K-pop high was two non-consecutive weeks, held by the KPop Demon Hunters original soundtrack.
The broader context: no group of any genre has held the top spot for three straight weeks since Mumford & Sons' Babel in 2012-13. BTS is also the first album of any kind to open at No. 1 and stay there for three consecutive weeks since Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl in 2025.
ARIRANG debuted March 20 with 641,000 equivalent album units - the highest opening-week figure for a group album since Billboard introduced unit calculations in December 2014. First-week pure sales of 532,000 were the highest for a group in the past decade. The album has now sold 71,000 pure copies in week three, with 50,000 additional streaming-equivalent units drawn from 52.44 million on-demand streams of the album's songs.
The single "Swim" slipped from No. 2 to No. 5 on the Hot 100 this week but has stayed in the top 5 for three consecutive weeks since debuting at No. 1 on April 4. It held No. 1 on the Global 200, Global (Excl. U.S.), and Digital Song Sales charts for three straight weeks, including 83.3 million global streams and 44,000 downloads in the week of April 3-9. "Swim" maintained the top spot on Spotify's Daily Top Song Global for 24 consecutive days (March 20-April 12). Three other ARIRANG tracks - "Body to Body" (No. 7), "2.0" (No. 5), and "Hooligan" (No. 7) - appear on the Global (Excl. U.S.) chart this week, giving BTS four simultaneous entries in that chart's top 10.
The album is also No. 1 for a third week on Spotify's Weekly Top Albums globally, No. 1 on Germany's Official Top 100 Albums (April 10), No. 2 on France's SNEP chart and Australia's ARIA Top 50 Albums, and No. 5 on the UK Official Albums Top 100.
The chart run is unfolding in real time alongside BTS's ongoing tour. The group completed three sold-out nights at Goyang Stadium (April 9, 11, 12), drawing 132,000 fans total. They play Tokyo Dome on April 17 and 18 before the North American leg opens April 25 in Tampa.
