Recent updates revealed that BTS’ album ‘ARIRANG‘ surpassed 4 million preorders in the first week, breaking their personal records and becoming the fastest-selling album of all time.
According to album distributor YG PLUS, on January 23rd, the boy group’s upcoming fifth full-length album was reported to have sold over 4.06 million stock copies one week after pre-orders opened on January 16th.
With this achivement, the boys surpassed their previous record set by their fourth full-length album ‘MAP OF THE SOUL : 7.’ Back in 2020, the with which BTS logged 3.42 million pre-orders within its first week and eventually sell over 5 million copies.
ARIRANG by BTS has sold over 4.06 million copies in pre-orders in one week. It becomes their fastest selling album. pic.twitter.com/XBc0EfEn46
— About Music (@AboutMusicYT) January 23, 2026
Now, ‘ARIRANG,’ set to release on March 20th, holds the record for the fastest-selling album in terms of physical pre-orders, making all fans proud and sharing praise on social networks:
“CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 This fandom deserves claps 👏,” “What a good time to be army. It’s record after record,” “This is huge 🔥🔥🔥,” “Coming to break every record,” “Album of the year is coming 🙌 ✨ 🔥,” “Kings,” “as expected, bts,” “oh godbts.”
