{"id":167000,"date":"2026-05-18T09:02:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=167000"},"modified":"2026-05-18T09:02:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:02:22","slug":"bts-arirang-is-holding-steady-in-the-top-10-of-the-billboard-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/bts-arirang-is-holding-steady-in-the-top-10-of-the-billboard-200\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS\u2019 \u201cARIRANG\u201d is holding steady in the top 10 of the Billboard 200"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BTS<\/strong> is having such an amazing run in the United States with the release of their album, \u201c<em>ARIRANG,<\/em>\u201d and their ongoing tour in America. Ultimately, the idols have proven once again why they are still at the top of the Kpop scene, expanding the genre to new markets.<\/p>\n<p>On May 17 local time, Billboard announced that BTS\u2019s latest album<strong><em> \u201cARIRANG\u201d<\/em> was now spending its eighth consecutive week on the Top 200 Albums chart<\/strong>, currently ranking at No. 8 after taking the No.1 spot back in March. The idols are proving their great influence on the American audience by maintaining a strong position on the different charts.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" 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<p>This new steady position makes <em>\u201cARIRANG,<strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/em><strong> the first album by a Korean artist ever to spend eight weeks in the top 10<\/strong>. According to Luninate<em>, \u201cARIRANG\u201d<\/em> earned a total of 44,000 equivalent album units during the week ending on May 14. Congratulations to BTS for making another amazing moment in the Kpop scene!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BTS is having such an amazing run in the United States with the release of their album, \u201cARIRANG,\u201d and their ongoing tour in America. Ultimately, the idols have proven once again why they are still at the top of the Kpop scene, expanding the genre to new markets. On May 17 local time, Billboard announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":167001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1353,16],"tags":[49],"tmauthors":[3735],"class_list":{"0":"post-167000","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\/167000","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=167000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167002,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167000\/revisions\/167002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167000"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=167000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}