BTS' 'ARIRANG' debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, while Luke Combs' 'The Way I Am' bows at No. 2.
pop group their seventh leader. The set opens with 641,000 equivalent album units earned — the largest week for an album by a group since the chart began measuring by units in December 2014. Of that sum, 532,000 are in pure album sales , landing BTS the biggest sales week for an album by a group in more than a decade.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums and streaming equivalent albums . Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 2,500 ad-supported or 1,000 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new April 4, 2026-dated chart will be posted in full on ’s 641,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, pure album sales comprise 532,000 , SEA units comprise 95,000 and TEA units comprise the remainder.4.002 million units on the Oct. 18, 2025-dated chart. BTS has the biggest week for any album by a group, by units, since the Billboard 200 began ranking by equivalent album units in December 2014. By pure album sales , BTS has the biggest sales week for any album sincestarted with 3.48 million copies sold. The last group to have a larger sales week was One Direction, with the debut week of’s first-week sales number was largely powered by physical sales bolstered by its availability across 17 vinyl variants and nine CD editions, all of which have the same tracklist. Vinyl sales accounted for 208,000 — BTS’ best sales week on vinyl and the largest by a group in the modern era . It’s also the sixth-largest vinyl sales week for an album in the modern era; Taylor Swift has the top five. The biggest week for a vinyl set in the modern era was registered by the opening week ofon March 21. The set’s lead single, “SWIM,” was released simultaneously with the album, and the track’s music video premiered the same day. Later in the release week, BTS performed on NBC’sNext month, the BTS WORLD TOUR ‘ARIRANG’ will launch on April 9 in Goyang, South Korea, and arrive in the United States on April 25 in Tampa, Fla. The trek will continue through the U.S. and Mexico through May 28, before heading overseas. The tour returns to the U.S. on Aug. 1 and is set to wrap its U.S./Canada dates Sept. 6 in Inglewood, Calif.arrives at No. 2 with 101,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 76,000 , album sales comprise 23,000 and TEA units comprise the rest.’s Hot Country Songs chart, three of which reached the top 10: “Back in the Saddle,” “Sleepless in a Hotel” and “Be by You.” All three have also reached the top 10 on the Country Airplay chart, with “Back in the Saddle” topping the list for two weeks in November.are the only debuts in the top 10 on the latest Billboard 200. Of the eight remaining titles in the top 10, just one is not a former No. 1 (Olivia Dean’sOne Thing at a Time charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with , data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.Bad Bunny’s Adidas Collaborations Sell Out in Minutes: Here’s How to Get His Latest Sneaker Drop Online. We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services. // This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the Google
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