{"id":1879082,"date":"2026-04-12T19:00:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1879082"},"modified":"2026-04-12T19:00:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T16:00:03","slug":"bts-arirang-scores-third-week-at-no-1-on-billboard-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1879082","title":{"rendered":"BTS\u2019 \u2018ARIRANG\u2019 Scores Third Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tBTS\u2019 ARIRANG<\/em> captures a third consecutive, and total, week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (dated April 18), as the set earned 124,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending April 9 (down 34%), according to Luminate. The album debuted atop the chart dated April 4.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tBTS\u2019 \u2018Swim\u2019 Spends Second Week at No. 1 on Billboard Global\u00a0Charts\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tHere Are All the K-Pop Albums That Have Topped the Billboard 200: Full\u00a0List\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n\tThe last album by a group to spend at least three weeks at No. 1 was Mumford & Sons\u2019 Babel<\/em>, which had five nonconsecutive weeks atop the list in 2012-13. It spent its first three weeks on the chart at No. 1 (charts dated Oct. 13-27, 2012) and then returned to the top for two more weeks (March 2 and 9, 2013) following its win for album of the year at the Grammy Awards. Babel<\/em> was also the last album by a group to spend its first three weeks at No. 1.<\/p>\n

ARIRANG<\/em> is the first album to spend its first three weeks at No. 1 since Taylor Swift\u2019s The Life of a Showgirl<\/em> racked up its first seven weeks atop the list (Oct. 18-Nov. 29, 2025), of its 12 total weeks at No. 1.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s a quiet week in the top 10 on the latest Billboard 200, as there are no debuts in the region. It\u2019s the first time there are no debuts in the top 10 in three months, since the Jan. 17-dated list.<\/p>\n

\n\tOf ARIRANG<\/em>\u2019s 124,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, album sales comprise 71,000 (down 34%; it\u2019s No. 1 on Top Album Sales for a third week), SEA units comprise 50,000 (down 24%, equaling 52.44 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s songs; it moves 3-4 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise 3,000 (down 65%).<\/p>\n

\n\tMorgan Wallen\u2019s chart-topping I\u2019m the Problem<\/em> pushes 4-2 on the Billboard 200 (80,000 equivalent album units earned, up 5%); BULLY<\/em> by Ye (formerly Kanye West) falls one spot to No. 3 (69,000, down 54% in its second week); Don Toliver\u2019s former leader OCTANE<\/em> climbs 8-4 (57,000, up 7% after new physical editions of the album dropped); and Olivia Dean\u2019s The Art of Loving<\/em> lifts 7-5 (50,000, down 7%). Luke Combs\u2019 The Way I Am<\/em> is a non-mover at No. 6 (46,000, down 16%).<\/p>\n

\n\tFour former No. 1s fill out the rest of the top 10, as Bad Bunny\u2019s DeB\u00cd TiRAR M\u00e1S FOToS <\/em>ascends 9-7 (45,000 equivalent album units earned, down 9%), Wallen\u2019s One Thing at a Time<\/em> drives 14-8 (39,000, up 1%), Harry Styles\u2019 Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.<\/em> steps 10-9 (37,000, down 22%) and Bruno Mars\u2019 The Romantic<\/em> rises 12-10 (nearly 37,000, down 7%).<\/p>\n

Luminate, the independent data provider to the\u00a0<\/em>Billboard\u00a0charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with\u00a0<\/em>Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.<\/em><\/p>\n

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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/bts-press-2026-cr-bighit-music-biillboard-1800.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard BTS\u2019 ARIRANG captures a third consecutive, and total, week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (dated April 18), as the set earned 124,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending April 9 (down 34%), according to Luminate. The album debuted atop the chart dated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-1879082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1879082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1879082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1879082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1879082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}