BTS still dominating charts
Ten songs from BTS’s comeback album Arirang remained on the Billboard Hot 100 for a second week, while three other tracks from the album fell off the U.S. chart — a sign of heavy, multi‑track streaming and sales activity. The chart snapshot was called out as evidence of the group's sustained U.S. presence after the comeback (ca.news.yahoo.com).
BTS kept 10 songs from *Arirang* on the Billboard Hot 100 for a second week, extending one of the biggest multi-track runs on the United States singles chart this year. (ca.news.yahoo.com) Billboard reported on March 31 that 13 songs from *Arirang* debuted on the Hot 100 dated April 4, led by “Swim” at No. 1, with “Body to Body” at No. 25, “Hooligan” at No. 35 and “FYA” at No. 36. (billboard.com) By the next chart week, dated April 11, 10 of those songs were still on the Hot 100 and three had dropped off, according to Forbes and Yahoo’s pickup of the chart update. “Swim” also slipped from No. 1 to No. 2 on Billboard’s Hot 100 top 10 countdown for that week. (forbes.com) (billboard.com) The chart pileup came as *Arirang* opened at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 641,000 equivalent album units in the week ending March 26, according to Luminate data published by Billboard. Billboard said that was the biggest week of 2026 and BTS’s seventh No. 1 album in the United States. (billboard.com) A Billboard 200 total is built from three inputs: album sales, track-equivalent albums and streaming-equivalent albums. Billboard said *Arirang*’s second week at No. 1, on the chart dated April 11, was powered by 114,000 album sales, 8,000 track-equivalent units and 65,000 streaming-equivalent units, equal to 68.49 million on-demand official streams. (billboard.com) That mix helps explain why so many songs charted at once: a fan base buying the album, purchasing tracks and streaming multiple songs can lift an entire release onto the singles chart in the same tracking week. Billboard’s formula counts one album sale, 10 track sales, or 1,000 paid streams and 2,500 ad-supported streams as one album unit. (billboard.com) The comeback also pushed BTS back to No. 1 on Billboard’s Artist 100 for a 22nd total week on top, their first time leading that chart since June 2022. Billboard said only Taylor Swift, Drake, Morgan Wallen and The Weeknd have spent more weeks at No. 1 since the ranking launched in 2014. (billboard.com) *Arirang* added to a stack of Billboard records for the group. Billboard said BTS became the first group to debut an album and a song at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and Hot 100 multiple times, after doing it before with *Be* and “Life Goes On” in 2020. (billboard.com) Billboard also said *Arirang* was BTS’s first studio album of new music since 2020, which helps explain why the reunion release hit with unusual force across sales and streaming at once. Two weeks in, the United States charts still show the same pattern: not one hit single, but an album moving as a block. (billboard.com)
