{"id":163343,"date":"2026-04-04T09:40:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=163343"},"modified":"2026-04-04T09:40:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:40:46","slug":"bts-is-expected-to-become-the-first-kpop-artist-to-spend-2-consecutive-weeks-atop-the-billboard-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/bts-is-expected-to-become-the-first-kpop-artist-to-spend-2-consecutive-weeks-atop-the-billboard-200\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS is expected to become the first Kpop artist to spend 2 consecutive weeks atop the Billboard 200"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BTS<\/strong> had an unprecedented success like no other in the American markets with the recent release of their fifth full album<em>,<\/em><strong><em> \u201cARIRANG.\u201d<\/em><\/strong> The idols\u2019 efforts are currently paying off, and they are ready to make history on the Billboard charts, positioning the Kpop scene at the very forefront.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, <em>\u201cARIRANG\u201d<\/em> landed at the top of the Billboard 200 for the week of April 4, after reporting 641,000 units sold, becoming BTS&#8217;s<strong> seventh album to achieve the milestone,<\/strong> and tying the Beatles\u2019 long-standing record.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chartdata\/status\/2040178756560503267\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BTS&#39; &#39;ARIRANG&#39; to spend second week at #1 on the Billboard 200 with 183K units (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HITSDD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@HITSDD<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>It will mark the first K-Pop album in history to spend its first two week of release at #1. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uEwXzfwKBP\">pic.twitter.com\/uEwXzfwKBP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; chart data (@chartdata) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chartdata\/status\/2040178756560503267?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 3, 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>U.S. Sources stated that<em> \u201cARIRANG\u201d<\/em> will maintain strong at the top of the Billboard 200 for the second consecutive week.<strong> If the idols can defend their No.1 album for a second week, they will officially become the first K-Pop artist to do so<\/strong>, showcasing their big influence in the American market.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, BTS currently <strong>dominates<\/strong> the Billboard charts with the debut at the top of <em>\u201cSWIM\u201d<\/em> on the Billboard Hot 100, and No.1 on<em> \u201cBillboard Global\u201d, \u201cGlobal Exclusive. U.S.\u201d, \u201cDigital Song Sales\u201d, \u201cWorld Digital Song Sales\u201d,<\/em> and many more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BTS had an unprecedented success like no other in the American markets with the recent release of their fifth full album, \u201cARIRANG.\u201d The idols\u2019 efforts are currently paying off, and they are ready to make history on the Billboard charts, positioning the Kpop scene at the very forefront. Earlier this week, \u201cARIRANG\u201d landed at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":163344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1353,16],"tags":[49],"class_list":{"0":"post-163343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-charts","9":"category-kpop","10":"tag-bts"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163343","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=163343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163348,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163343\/revisions\/163348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}