– debuts at #1 on the Billboard 200 with 641K equivalent album units
– Largest week for an album by a group since the chart began measuring by units in December 2014
– Pure album sales – 532K, lands BTS the biggest sales week ever **and** the biggest sales week for an album by a group in more than a decade
– Streaming Equivalent Albums (SEA) – 95K, equalling 99.10 million on-demand streams
– Track Equivalent Albums (TEA) – 14K
– BTS posts biggest sales week for any album by a group since Taylor Swift’s ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ (2025)
– For comparison, ‘PROOF’ (2022) debuted at #1 with 314K equivalent album units ([source](https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/bts-proof-billboard-200-debut-no-1-1235089722/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter#:~:text=BTS%E2%80%99%20new%20compilation,according%20to%20Luminate.))
– earns the biggest US unit sales week for any K-Pop album in Billboard history, surpassing BTS’s own ‘MAP OF THE SOUL : 7’ (2020) ([source](https://x.com/chartdata/status/2038331273014362388))
– debuts as the 6th biggest US vinyl debut in Nielsen history with 208K sold ([source](https://x.com/chartdata/status/2038332822197260392)), and
– breaks the record for biggest vinyl sales week for any album by any male artist in Nielsen history. It surpasses Harry Styles’s ‘Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally’ (2026) ([source](https://x.com/chartdata/status/2038332554126729670))
– debuts at #1 on Top Streaming Albums, and as BTS’s seventh #1 on Top Album Sales
—
‘ARIRANG’ is now:
– BTS’s biggest debut ever and the biggest K-pop debut ever overall
– the 8th biggest US album debut of the 2020s decade ([source](https://x.com/chartdata/status/2038335761775259941))
– BTS’s seventh #1 album after ‘Love Yourself 轉 ‘Tear”, ‘Love Yourself 結 ‘Answer”, ‘MAP OF THE SOUL : PERSONA’, ‘MAP OF THE SOUL : 7’, ‘BE’ and ‘Proof’
thesleepingniffler on
I’m shocked! Shocked I say!
Congratulations kings 👑👑
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PoetrySuper2583 on
It’s always the 7!!!!!!!!
Congratulations BTS! Well done, Army! 💜
m9rockstar on
Amazing news to kick off the week ahead 🤍💜
lisafancypants on
How fitting! And deserved.
Iamwhoiam962005 on
We are so back!! Let’s goooooo
MadameWitchy on
It’s the 7 again!!!!!! 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Comfortable-Move-195 on
LFGGGGG 🕺🏻💜
Eternal_ARMY0613 on
Congratulations Bangtan 🥹💜
mayfly42 on
Let’s fucking go!!!!!!!!!!!
Let’s keep this energy up for week 2 and beyond!!!!!
“SEA units comprise 95,000 (equaling 99.10 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs, BTS’ biggest streaming week ever for an album; it debuts at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums)” – this is seriously huge!! This puts BTS in the league of Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, etc. And Billboard don’t even take into consideration YouTube anymore!!
klue07 on
This is amazing! And so well deserved after everything they poured into this album and cb! I hope the fears and anxiety they had about the album are gone now and they can truly enjoy it! 💜🥹
So happy for them and so happy their return from hiatus is their SEVENTH No. 1 Album (and I’m so certain SWIM is about to be their SEVENTH No. 1 single on the hot 100~) 💜💜💜
Congratulations Bangtannies!!! 💜💜 I am so beyond happy with what they have achieved with ARIRANG, with this massive success, one win after another at a period where people really were pushing for their downfall. Here is for more to come 🥂🥂 because ARIRANG deserves this and more
But on a serious note…. CONGRATULATIONS, tannies 🥹 so so happy for them. I’m sure things like this, they can have an idea of but not be convinced of till you see the actual numbers and results. They had been away for four years, and I’m sure that brought with it atleast some anxiety.
What is most impressive to me is that they would still have been No.1 with STREAMS *alone*!!! Album is a smashing success. You’ve worked hard, US ARMYs 🥳💜
further_and_beyond on
It’s seven again.
BangtAngel on
fingers crossed we get the 7th Hot 100 #1 tomorrow to match!!!
Knightingalesong on
YAAAY, sooo happy for them and sooo deserved! 🥹💜
I wasn’t able to avoid seeing so much of the initial negativity on socials so this feels even more amazing to me rn.
ScarletRaven7 on
Big congrats to BTS! I hope they take pride in this achievement. This is a phenomenal album! 🎉💜🔥
yeon_kimin on
Seventh #1 album!
Congrats to the Tannies!
Edit: If you told me in the spring of 2018 when we got their first #1 for Love Yourself Tear that’d they would be able to debut at #1 without physical sales I would’ve collapsed LOL.
heartonwindow on
i hope bts now know how loved the album is and how much they deserved this. can’t imagine the pressure they must’ve felt.
velvet_costanza on
And they did it with an amazing album, top to bottom, that I’ll never forget 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
ashmute on
next up is #1 on the hot 100 tomorrow
hollye83 on
If you’re looking ahead to week 2, I snagged the travel tag box set at Barnes and Noble this morning, only $42 if you’re a member. The travel tag is sturdy!
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‘ARIRANG’:
– debuts at #1 on the Billboard 200 with 641K equivalent album units
– Largest week for an album by a group since the chart began measuring by units in December 2014
– Pure album sales – 532K, lands BTS the biggest sales week ever **and** the biggest sales week for an album by a group in more than a decade
– Streaming Equivalent Albums (SEA) – 95K, equalling 99.10 million on-demand streams
– Track Equivalent Albums (TEA) – 14K
– BTS posts biggest sales week for any album by a group since Taylor Swift’s ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ (2025)
– For comparison, ‘PROOF’ (2022) debuted at #1 with 314K equivalent album units ([source](https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/bts-proof-billboard-200-debut-no-1-1235089722/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter#:~:text=BTS%E2%80%99%20new%20compilation,according%20to%20Luminate.))
– earns the biggest US unit sales week for any K-Pop album in Billboard history, surpassing BTS’s own ‘MAP OF THE SOUL : 7’ (2020) ([source](https://x.com/chartdata/status/2038331273014362388))
– debuts as the 6th biggest US vinyl debut in Nielsen history with 208K sold ([source](https://x.com/chartdata/status/2038332822197260392)), and
– breaks the record for biggest vinyl sales week for any album by any male artist in Nielsen history. It surpasses Harry Styles’s ‘Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally’ (2026) ([source](https://x.com/chartdata/status/2038332554126729670))
– debuts at #1 on Top Streaming Albums, and as BTS’s seventh #1 on Top Album Sales
—
‘ARIRANG’ is now:
– BTS’s biggest debut ever and the biggest K-pop debut ever overall
– the 8th biggest US album debut of the 2020s decade ([source](https://x.com/chartdata/status/2038335761775259941))
– BTS’s seventh #1 album after ‘Love Yourself 轉 ‘Tear”, ‘Love Yourself 結 ‘Answer”, ‘MAP OF THE SOUL : PERSONA’, ‘MAP OF THE SOUL : 7’, ‘BE’ and ‘Proof’
I’m shocked! Shocked I say!
Congratulations kings 👑👑
*Processing img y704zye181sg1…*
It’s always the 7!!!!!!!!
Congratulations BTS! Well done, Army! 💜
Amazing news to kick off the week ahead 🤍💜
How fitting! And deserved.
We are so back!! Let’s goooooo
It’s the 7 again!!!!!! 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
LFGGGGG 🕺🏻💜
Congratulations Bangtan 🥹💜
Let’s fucking go!!!!!!!!!!!
Let’s keep this energy up for week 2 and beyond!!!!!
“SEA units comprise 95,000 (equaling 99.10 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs, BTS’ biggest streaming week ever for an album; it debuts at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums)” – this is seriously huge!! This puts BTS in the league of Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, etc. And Billboard don’t even take into consideration YouTube anymore!!
This is amazing! And so well deserved after everything they poured into this album and cb! I hope the fears and anxiety they had about the album are gone now and they can truly enjoy it! 💜🥹
https://preview.redd.it/p5uub44d91sg1.jpeg?width=1070&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b630c6f2cbd6ff51fcb102820fd95df9a78addd0
So happy for them and so happy their return from hiatus is their SEVENTH No. 1 Album (and I’m so certain SWIM is about to be their SEVENTH No. 1 single on the hot 100~) 💜💜💜
https://preview.redd.it/kphroul8a1sg1.jpeg?width=784&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7b11023ee3262d30265529df4fd65a69679ba3f0
And it’s seven now!
Congratulations Bangtannies!!! 💜💜 I am so beyond happy with what they have achieved with ARIRANG, with this massive success, one win after another at a period where people really were pushing for their downfall. Here is for more to come 🥂🥂 because ARIRANG deserves this and more
THE KINGS ARE BACK.
https://preview.redd.it/3vn0jyh0b1sg1.jpeg?width=822&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cec35c494f8fd86ea490d8fbc9c45238fb60b29e
But on a serious note…. CONGRATULATIONS, tannies 🥹 so so happy for them. I’m sure things like this, they can have an idea of but not be convinced of till you see the actual numbers and results. They had been away for four years, and I’m sure that brought with it atleast some anxiety.
What is most impressive to me is that they would still have been No.1 with STREAMS *alone*!!! Album is a smashing success. You’ve worked hard, US ARMYs 🥳💜
It’s seven again.
fingers crossed we get the 7th Hot 100 #1 tomorrow to match!!!
YAAAY, sooo happy for them and sooo deserved! 🥹💜
I wasn’t able to avoid seeing so much of the initial negativity on socials so this feels even more amazing to me rn.
Big congrats to BTS! I hope they take pride in this achievement. This is a phenomenal album! 🎉💜🔥
Seventh #1 album!
Congrats to the Tannies!
Edit: If you told me in the spring of 2018 when we got their first #1 for Love Yourself Tear that’d they would be able to debut at #1 without physical sales I would’ve collapsed LOL.
i hope bts now know how loved the album is and how much they deserved this. can’t imagine the pressure they must’ve felt.
And they did it with an amazing album, top to bottom, that I’ll never forget 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
next up is #1 on the hot 100 tomorrow
If you’re looking ahead to week 2, I snagged the travel tag box set at Barnes and Noble this morning, only $42 if you’re a member. The travel tag is sturdy!
https://preview.redd.it/lcc6g5ukf1sg1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=485738b1166ac8871b40ac649716a44c01b3c2fc