{"id":162967,"date":"2026-03-30T11:36:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T18:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=162967"},"modified":"2026-03-30T11:36:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T18:36:23","slug":"bts-reaches-the-top-with-arirang-on-the-billboard-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/bts-reaches-the-top-with-arirang-on-the-billboard-200\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS reaches the top with \u201cARIRANG\u201d on the Billboard 200"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BTS<\/strong> has written history once again with the release of their fifth album,<strong><em> \u201cARIRANG,\u201d<\/em><\/strong> and the massive success in the South Korean and American markets. Ultimately, BTS is topping every single chart with this iconic release.<\/p>\n<p>On March 30,<strong> Billboard announced that BTS\u2019s fifth full-length album debuted straight at No.1 on the Billboard 200<\/strong>, surpassing Luke Combs\u2019<em> \u201cThe Way I Am\u201d<\/em> and Morgan Wallen\u2019s <em>\u201cI\u2019m The Problem.\u201d<\/em> The idols have now topped both the U.K. and U.S. album charts.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-162980\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/BTS-reached-the-No.1-spot-on-BB200.jpg\" alt=\"BTS reaches seventh No.1 in the United States\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/BTS-reached-the-No.1-spot-on-BB200.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/BTS-reached-the-No.1-spot-on-BB200-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/BTS-reached-the-No.1-spot-on-BB200-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/BTS-reached-the-No.1-spot-on-BB200-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/BTS-reached-the-No.1-spot-on-BB200-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/BTS-reached-the-No.1-spot-on-BB200-860x484.jpg 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was reported that <em>\u201cARIRANG\u201d<\/em> recorded <strong>641,000 album units<\/strong>, marking the highest first-week for a group since the chart adopted the unit system in December 2014. 532,000 units came from pure album sales, showcasing the great support BTS has received from the American audience.<\/p>\n<p>The 532,000 pure sales also represent BTS\u2019s all-time <strong>highest sales record<\/strong>, earning them their seventh No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart. Congratulations to BTS on this amazing record in the United States!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BTS has written history once again with the release of their fifth album, \u201cARIRANG,\u201d and the massive success in the South Korean and American markets. Ultimately, BTS is topping every single chart with this iconic release. On March 30, Billboard announced that BTS\u2019s fifth full-length album debuted straight at No.1 on the Billboard 200, surpassing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":162968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1353,16],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-162967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-charts","category-kpop","tag-bts"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162967","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=162967"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162981,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162967\/revisions\/162981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}