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#BTS' new history-making masterpiece, 'ARIRANG' scores the Biggest Album Debut of 2026 Worldwide and is the best-selling and fastest-selling album released in 2026 globally, after debuting at No. 1 on the United World chart and its year-to-date chart with the biggest weekly sales by an album since Taylor Swift's 'The Life Of A Showgirl' in week 42, 2025, and after debuting atop the Billboard 200, the Billboard Canadian chart, The Circle chart in S. Korea, the Official UK chart, the ARIA chart in Australia, the Oricon & Billboard charts in Japan, the GfK official German chart, the French SNEP chart and 20 countries in total! 💪🆕🌊🔝💿💥➕🥇🔝💰&💨2⃣0⃣2⃣6⃣💿🌎🔥👑👑👑👑👑👑👑💜 'ARIRANG' scored the Biggest K-Pop Album debut in Global Spotify chart history and the biggest debut on Spotify for any Album in 2026, scoring 110 Million streams in its 1st day and 545 Million streams in its first week with Spotify naming it the “Comeback of the Decade!" BTS is the 1st Group and Asian act in history to simultaneously debut at #1 on all Spotify Global charts! All 14 tracks from 'ARIRANG' took over the top fourteen spots of the Global Spotify chart on its first day! It also broke the record for most 1st-day streams for a pop group album and K-Pop Album in Apple Music history! It Also scored the Biggest K-Pop Album Debut in Amazon Music history! In South Korea, the album scored the Biggest Album Debut on Hanteo in 2026 and the Biggest Album Debut in Circle chart history, selling 4,271 Million copies in its first week, immediately becoming the 9th best-selling album of All Time in S. Korea. In the US, 'ARIRANG' debuted atop the Billboard 200, scoring BTS' 7th chart-topper with 641,000 equivalent album units sold in its first week, including 532,000 pure sales, the Biggest Album Debut of 2026, and the Biggest US Debut for a K-Pop Album in Nielsen history, with BTS breaking its own record set with 'MOTS: 7'! It also scored the Top Album Debut by a Male Act and Group this Decade! It's the largest week by units for a group in Nielsen history and BTS's biggest US sales and streaming week ever, debuting at #1 on the Billboard Top US Sales and streaming charts this week! It also debuted at #1 on the vinyl chart in the US, selling 208,000 copies, with BTS setting a record for the biggest vinyl week by a male artist or group in Nielsen history! All songs from 'ARIRANG' debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 with the exception of "No. 29" due to the song having no lyrics. "SWIM" debuted at No. 1 with BTS becoming the 1st Group in history to debut atop the Hot 100 and Billboard 200 simultaneously, multiple times (Life Goes On & BE ➕SWIM & ARIRANG)! BTS extends its record as the K-Pop Act with the most Hot 100 hits in history (7). BTS is also the Group with the Most #1 Debuts (6) in Hot 100 history, the Group with the Most Hot 100 hits this Decade, the Group with the Most weeks atop the Hot 100 this Decade (18) and the Group with the most Digital Song Sales No. 1s (13) in history! BTS is also the #1 Act with the Most World Digital Song Sales No. 1s in history (43)! BTS is the 1ST & ONLY Act in history to occupy the whole Top 10 of the Billboard Global Excl. US and the whole Top 9 of the Billboard Global 200 simultaneously with songs from 'ARIRANG'! BTS is also the 1ST & ONLY Act in history to score 6 Billboard ALL KILLS (BAKs), reaching #1 on the Hot 100, the Global 200 & the Global Excl. US simultaneously for the 6th time! In Japan, 'ARIRANG' debuted atop the Billboard & Oricon Album charts, selling 541,000 units in its first day and 548, 217 units in its first week, becoming the Album with the biggest 1st week sales of 2026 for a foreign Act in Japan! In the UK, 'ARIRANG' debuted atop the Official chart with 41,551 units, including 26,019 pure sales, becoming BTS' 3rd #1 Album in the UK and scoring their biggest sales week ever! 'Arirang' also debuted at #1 on the UK vinyl chart, moving the most units on wax in the UK in its first week! "SWIM" debuted at #2 on the Official UK singles chart, becoming BTS' highest-charting song of All time in the UK, surpassing "Butter" & "Dynamite"! In Australia, 'ARIRANG' debuted atop the ARIA Top 50 Albums Chart becoming their third No. 1 album and 7th top 10 album overall in the country! It also debuted atop the vinyl chart, becoming BTS's highest-ever vinyl entry in Australia! In Germany, 'ARIRANG' debuted atop the official GfK chart in Germany, while their lead single "SWIM" debuted at No. 1 on the singles chart, making BTS the first group in German chart history to simultaneously debut atop the album and singles charts! In France, 'ARIRANG' debuted at #1 on the French SNEP Top Albums Chart with 58,559 units, including 50,840 pure physical sales, earning BTS a Gold certification in its very first week for crossing the 50,000-unit threshold and marking BTS' biggest debut ever and the highest for an Asian Artist in French chart history! The Album also debuted at #1 in Austria, Belgium (Flanders & Wallonia), Canada, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Ireland, Lithuania, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland, Slovakia, Spain & Switzerland and has reached #2 in Denmark, Greece, Italy, Poland & Sweden and #3 in Finland. BTS PAVED THE WAY BTS HISTORY MAKERS #BTS_SWİM #BTS_ARİRANG @BTS_twt

WORLDMUSICAWARD's tweet photo. #BTS' new history-making masterpiece, 'ARIRANG' scores the Biggest Album Debut of 2026 Worldwide and is the best-selling and fastest-selling album released in 2026 globally, after debuting at No. 1 on the United World chart and its year-to-date chart with the biggest weekly sales by an album since Taylor Swift's 'The Life Of A Showgirl' in week 42, 2025, and after debuting atop the Billboard 200, the Billboard Canadian chart, The Circle chart in S. Korea, the Official UK chart, the ARIA chart in Australia, the Oricon & Billboard charts in Japan, the GfK official German chart, the French SNEP chart and 20 countries in total! 💪🆕🌊🔝💿💥➕🥇🔝💰&💨2⃣0⃣2⃣6⃣💿🌎🔥👑👑👑👑👑👑👑💜
'ARIRANG' scored the Biggest K-Pop Album debut in Global Spotify chart history and the biggest debut on Spotify for any Album in 2026, scoring 110 Million streams in its 1st day and 545 Million streams in its first week with Spotify naming it the “Comeback of the Decade!" BTS is the 1st Group and Asian act in history to simultaneously debut at #1 on all Spotify Global charts! All 14 tracks from 'ARIRANG' took over the top fourteen spots of the Global Spotify chart on its first day! It also broke the record for most 1st-day streams for a pop group album and K-Pop Album in Apple Music history! It Also scored the Biggest K-Pop Album Debut in Amazon Music history!

In South Korea, the album scored the Biggest Album Debut on Hanteo in 2026 and the Biggest Album Debut in Circle chart history, selling 4,271 Million copies in its first week, immediately becoming the 9th best-selling album of All Time in S. Korea.

In the US, 'ARIRANG' debuted atop the Billboard 200, scoring BTS' 7th chart-topper with 641,000 equivalent album units sold in its first week, including 532,000 pure sales, the Biggest Album Debut of 2026, and the Biggest US Debut for a K-Pop Album in Nielsen history, with BTS breaking its own record set with 'MOTS: 7'! It also scored the Top Album Debut by a Male Act and Group this Decade! It's the largest week by units for a group in Nielsen history and BTS's biggest US sales and streaming week ever, debuting at #1 on the Billboard Top US Sales and streaming charts this week! It also debuted at #1 on the vinyl chart in the US, selling 208,000 copies, with BTS setting a record for the biggest vinyl week by a male artist or group in Nielsen history! All songs from 'ARIRANG' debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 with the exception of "No. 29" due to the song having no lyrics. "SWIM" debuted at No. 1 with BTS becoming the 1st Group in history to debut atop the Hot 100 and Billboard 200 simultaneously, multiple times (Life Goes On & BE ➕SWIM & ARIRANG)! BTS extends its record as the K-Pop Act with the most Hot 100 hits in history (7). BTS is also the Group with the Most #1 Debuts (6) in Hot 100 history, the Group with the Most Hot 100 hits this Decade, the Group with the Most weeks atop the Hot 100 this Decade (18) and the Group with the most Digital Song Sales No. 1s (13) in history! BTS is also the #1 Act with the Most World Digital Song Sales No. 1s in history (43)! BTS is the 1ST & ONLY Act in history to occupy the whole Top 10 of the Billboard Global Excl. US and the whole Top 9 of the Billboard Global 200 simultaneously with songs from 'ARIRANG'! BTS is also the 1ST & ONLY Act in history to score 6 Billboard ALL KILLS (BAKs), reaching #1 on the Hot 100, the Global 200 & the Global Excl. US simultaneously for the 6th time!

In Japan, 'ARIRANG' debuted atop the Billboard & Oricon Album charts, selling 541,000 units in its first day and 548, 217 units in its first week, becoming the Album with the biggest 1st week sales of 2026 for a foreign Act in Japan!

In the UK, 'ARIRANG' debuted atop the Official chart with 41,551 units, including 26,019 pure sales, becoming BTS' 3rd #1 Album in the UK and scoring their biggest sales week ever! 'Arirang' also debuted at #1 on the UK vinyl chart, moving the most units on wax in the UK in its first week! "SWIM" debuted at #2 on the Official UK singles chart, becoming BTS' highest-charting song of All time in the UK, surpassing "Butter" & "Dynamite"!

In Australia, 'ARIRANG' debuted atop the ARIA Top 50 Albums Chart becoming their third No. 1 album and 7th top 10 album overall in the country! It also debuted atop the vinyl chart, becoming BTS's highest-ever vinyl entry in Australia!

In Germany, 'ARIRANG' debuted atop the official GfK chart in Germany, while their lead single "SWIM" debuted at No. 1 on the singles chart, making BTS the first group in German chart history to simultaneously debut atop the album and singles charts!

In France, 'ARIRANG' debuted at #1 on the French SNEP Top Albums Chart with 58,559 units, including 50,840 pure physical sales, earning BTS a Gold certification in its very first week for crossing the 50,000-unit threshold and marking BTS' biggest debut ever and the highest for an Asian Artist in French chart history!

The Album also debuted at #1 in Austria, Belgium (Flanders & Wallonia), Canada, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Ireland, Lithuania, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland, Slovakia, Spain & Switzerland and has reached #2 in Denmark, Greece, Italy, Poland & Sweden and #3 in Finland.

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