{"id":168594,"date":"2026-06-07T07:49:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T14:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=168594"},"modified":"2026-06-07T07:49:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T14:49:16","slug":"bts-has-topped-the-billboard-japan-mid-year-album-sales-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/bts-has-topped-the-billboard-japan-mid-year-album-sales-chart\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS has topped the Billboard Japan mid-year album sales chart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>BTS<\/strong> has had such a great run on the different Billboard charts with their album,<strong><em> \u201cARIRANG,\u201d<\/em><\/strong> and their title track, <em>\u201cSWIM.\u201d<\/em> The idols have conquered tens of international markets with their musical project, including the Japanese ones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On June 7, Billboard announced its Billboard Japan 2026 mid-year &#8216;Top Album Sales&#8217; chart. Many fans noticed that BTS\u2019 fifth full studio album, <strong><em>\u201cARIRANG,\u201d<\/em> ranked No. 1 with 706,961 copies sold.<\/strong><\/span><\/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><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ultimately, the album also<strong> topped<\/strong> d Billboard Japan\u2019s comprehensive mid-year album chart, <em>\u201cHot Albums.\u201d<\/em> On Billboard Japan\u2019s mid-year<em> &#8216;Hot 100&#8217;<\/em> chart, the album&#8217;s title track, <em>\u201cSWIM,\u201d<\/em> and B-side track,<em> \u201c2.0,\u201d<\/em> entered at No. 38 and No. 87, respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">B<strong>TS has proved their powerful influence in the Japanese market, which was surely boosted by <em>\u201cARIRANG WORLD TOUR.\u201d<\/em><\/strong> Congratulations to BTS on this amazing achievement despite being in the Kpop scene for more than a decade now! Get ready to celebrate the idols&#8217; 13th anniversary on June 13!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BTS has had such a great run on the different Billboard charts with their album, \u201cARIRANG,\u201d and their title track, \u201cSWIM.\u201d The idols have conquered tens of international markets with their musical project, including the Japanese ones. On June 7, Billboard announced its Billboard Japan 2026 mid-year &#8216;Top Album Sales&#8217; chart. Many fans noticed that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":168596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1353,16],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-168594","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\/168594","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=168594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168597,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168594\/revisions\/168597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}