{"id":162195,"date":"2026-03-20T10:50:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T17:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=162195"},"modified":"2026-03-20T10:50:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T17:50:42","slug":"bts-arirang-earns-the-biggest-kpop-first-day-streaming-debut-in-amazon-music-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/bts-arirang-earns-the-biggest-kpop-first-day-streaming-debut-in-amazon-music-history\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS\u2019 \u201cARIRANG\u201d earns the biggest  Kpop first day streaming debut in Amazon Music history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BTS<\/strong> is currently at the top of the game with the release of their album,<strong><em> \u201cARIRANG,\u201d<\/em><\/strong> and the release of the \u201cSWIM\u201d music video. Ultimately, March 20 revolves around BTS and their big impact on the Kpop scene and international market. This time, the idols have broken another astonishing record<\/p>\n<p>On March 20, just a few hours after the release of BTS\u2019s album<strong>, Amazon Music took over social media to make a special announcement: \u201cARIRANG\u201d has earned the biggest K-pop first-day streaming debut in the platform\u2019s history<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amazonmusic\/status\/2035042853022310563\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BTS ARMY, you \ud83e\udef5 did that! ARIRANG is breaking records, keep streaming on Amazon Music!<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HxrSGgg9GQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/HxrSGgg9GQ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RDEcTRcOyG\">pic.twitter.com\/RDEcTRcOyG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Amazon Music (@amazonmusic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amazonmusic\/status\/2035042853022310563?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 20, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In addition, BTS also earned<strong> wide recognition<\/strong> in the international market as they achieved 4 million pre-orders, 3.5 million Spotify pre-saves, and #1 on US iTunes within hours of the release, proving why they are still at the top of the game despite being inactive for almost four years. Congratulations to BTS on another amazing achievement!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b4iVv91Z6lY&amp;list=RDb4iVv91Z6lY&amp;start_radio=1\" title=\"BTS (\ubc29\ud0c4\uc18c\ub144\ub2e8) \u2018SWIM\u2019 Official MV\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b4iVv91Z6lY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BTS is currently at the top of the game with the release of their album, \u201cARIRANG,\u201d and the release of the \u201cSWIM\u201d music video. Ultimately, March 20 revolves around BTS and their big impact on the Kpop scene and international market. This time, the idols have broken another astonishing record On March 20, just a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":162196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,2264,7],"tags":[49],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-162195","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kpop","8":"category-entertainment","9":"category-news","10":"tag-bts"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162199,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162195\/revisions\/162199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162195"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=162195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}