{"id":176333,"date":"2026-10-28T12:21:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T19:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=176333"},"modified":"2026-10-28T12:21:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T19:21:54","slug":"bts-just-wont-leave-the-billboard-200-arirang-hits-31-straight-weeks-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/bts-just-wont-leave-the-billboard-200-arirang-hits-31-straight-weeks-and-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS just won\u2019t leave the Billboard 200: \u201cArirang\u201d hits 31 straight weeks and counting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BTS<\/strong> is more successful than ever. Seven months after its 3 week run at No. 1, BTS\u2019 fifth album sits at No. 46, \u201cSwim\u201d is still a Global Excl. US top 10 hit, and the world tour is closing its South American leg with 610,000+ fans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ARMY<\/strong>, the latest Billboard numbers are in, and BTS is still on the board. \u201cArirang\u201d landed at No. 46 on the newest Billboard 200, released Tuesday, stretching the group\u2019s stay on the U.S. albums chart to 31 consecutive weeks.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BTS (\ubc29\ud0c4\uc18c\ub144\ub2e8) \u2018NORMAL\u2019 Official MV\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GEk4jHwfFTA?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>It\u2019s a long way from where this album started. \u201c<strong>Arirang<\/strong>\u201d arrived at No. 1 with 641,000 units in its first week and held the top spot for three weeks. This week\u2019s five-spot slide matters less than the staying power: more than seven months after release, it simply won\u2019t leave.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Swim<\/strong>\u201d is carrying its weight too. The lead track sits at No. 28 on the Billboard Global 200 and No. 10 on Global Excl. US. That\u2019s its 30th week in the top 10 of the latter, following a chart-topping debut.<\/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>Off the charts, the septet closes the 5 city South American leg of its world tour in S\u00e3o Paulo this weekend, after drawing more than 610,000 fans. The tour picks up again next month in Kaohsiung, <strong>Taiwan<\/strong>. Chart life and stadium life, running at the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BTS is more successful than ever. Seven months after its 3 week run at No. 1, BTS\u2019 fifth album sits at No. 46, \u201cSwim\u201d is still a Global Excl. US top 10 hit, and the world tour is closing its South American leg with 610,000+ fans. ARMY, the latest Billboard numbers are in, and BTS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3106,"featured_media":176334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16,7],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-176333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-kpop","category-news","tag-bts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176333","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\/3106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176337,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176333\/revisions\/176337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}