BTS’ (@bts_bighit) “ARIRANG” Becomes the First and Only Album in History to Chart Every Track on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. Chart for 11 Consecutive Weeks.
#BTS (1방탄소년단)' history-making Masterpiece 'ARIRANG' rebounds to #4 (+1) on the United World chart, the 4th top-selling album of the week globally, after 4 consecutive weeks atop the chart, and is the best-selling Album of 2026, at #1 on the United World Year-to-date chart for an 11th consecutive week! 💪🌊📈4⃣ 🔙🤝🌎➕1⃣💿2⃣6⃣📈✖️1⃣1⃣📆👑👑👑👑👑👑👑💜
'Arirang' scored another 115,000 sales points on this week's United World chart, holding in the Top 6 for an 11th week! ARIRANG' scored the Biggest Album Debut of 2026 Worldwide, and the Biggest 1st week streaming debut, landing at No. 1 on the United World chart and going straight to #1 on 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! It debuted 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! It has now reached #1 in 25 countries! 'ARIRANG' is the most-streamed album on Spotify in 2026 with over 2.95 Billion plays! 'ARIRANG' scored the Biggest Asian Album debut in Global Spotify chart history, earning 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 tracks from 'ARIRANG' took over the top fourteen spots of the Global Spotify chart on its first day! 'ARIRANG' is now only album in history to have all its songs score over 1 Million daily streams for over 80 days on Spotify! 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! 'ARIRANG' reached 1 Billion streams in 16 days, the fastest album by any group or Asian act to reach this milestone.
In South Korea, 'ARIRANG' topped the chart for its first 2 weeks, holding in the Top 2 for 3 weeks! It has sold over 5M copies in South Korea so far after scoring the Biggest Album Debut on Hanteo in 2026 and the Biggest Album Debut in Circle chart history, landing at #1 after 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' is #11 on this week's Billboard 200, earning another 39,000 equivalent album units and 1,363,000 units so far after scoring its first 3 weeks atop the Billboard 200, becoming the 1st and Only Album by an Asian Act to spend 3 weeks at No. 1 in Billboard 200 chart history, surpassing 'KPop Demon Hunters'! It broke the record for longest-running No. 1 album by a group on the Billboard 200 since Mumford & Sons’ 'Babel' in 2013. It scored 3 straight weeks at No. 1 on the US Top Album Sales chart, surpassing 1 Million units in the US after 25 days on the chart, making it the first 2026 album to do so and the fastest Album by an Asian act in US history to hit the 1M mark, qualifying for a RIAA Platinum certification. '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 and 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! 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". "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 extended its record as the K-Pop Act with the most Hot 100 #1 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 (7), 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'! "ARIRANG" is the FIRST and ONLY album in history to chart all of its tracks on the Billboard Global Excl. US chart for 11 consecutive weeks! 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' became the 1st Foreign Act to top the Billboard Japan Hot Albums chart for 5 consecutive weeks, breaking their own record set with 'BTS, THE BEST' (3 weeks)! '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! It is #9 on this week's Oricon Album chart, selling another 6,307 units and has been certified Triple Platinum by the RIAJ for over 750,000 units!
In the UK, 'ARIRANG' rebounds to #33 (+5) on the Official chart in its 11th week, and is already BRITcertified Gold for over 100,000 sales units in the UK! It's the first Asian album to spend 3 straight weeks in the UK Top 5, debuting 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' rebounds to #6 (+2) in its 10th week on the ARIA Top 50 Albums Chart, after debuting at #1, 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! The album held at No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart in its 2nd week, becoming BTS's 2nd album to spend multiple weeks atop the chart after Map of the Soul: 7 in 2020, which also charted for two weeks at No. 1.
In Germany, 'ARIRANG' is No. 6 on the Official GfK chart after 2 weeks at #1. 'ARIRANG' debuted atop the chart, with their lead single "SWIM" debuting 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' rebounds to No. 18 (+2) on the French SNEP Top Albums Chart after 10 weeks on the chart and is already Platinum certified, having sold over 100,000 units after debuting at No. 1 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 has reached #1 in 25 countries so far including Australia, Austria, Belgium (Flanders & Wallonia), Canada, Croatia, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, UK & US and has reached #2 in Denmark, Italy & Sweden, #3 in Finland and #15 in Nigeria.
It has been certified 4x Million in South Korea, 3x Platinum in Japan (750k), Platinum in France (100k) and Gold in Italy (25k), New Zealand (7,5K), Spain (20k) and UK (100k)!
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