BTS stays No.1
BTS’s album 'ARIRANG' held the No.1 spot on the Billboard 200 for a third straight week, according to the chart announcement posted on X. (x.com) The social post announcing the milestone drew notable engagement, logging roughly 24K likes on the platform. (x.com)
BTS stayed at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for a third straight week with “ARIRANG,” extending the group’s longest run atop the chart. (billboard.com) Billboard said the chart is dated April 18, 2026, and ranked “ARIRANG” ahead of Morgan Wallen’s “I’m the Problem” at No. 2 and Ye’s “Bully” at No. 3. (billboard.com) The magazine said BTS earned 137,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending April 9, according to Luminate. Of that total, 83,000 came from album sales, 53,000 from streaming equivalent albums and 1,000 from track equivalent albums. (billboard.com) The three-week run is a first for a K-pop act on the Billboard 200, according to Billboard and South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency. BTS had previously logged seven No. 1 albums, but none had lasted longer than a single week at the top before “ARIRANG.” (billboard.com; yna.co.kr) Billboard said “ARIRANG” now has the most weeks at No. 1 for an album by a group in more than a decade. That places the release in a longer drought for group albums at the top of the United States chart. (billboard.com) The album opened at No. 1 on the April 4 chart with 641,000 equivalent album units, which Billboard called the biggest week for an album by a group since the chart began measuring by units in December 2014. Billboard also said 532,000 of those units came from pure sales. (billboard.com) In its second week, “ARIRANG” remained on top with 187,000 equivalent album units for the chart dated April 11. The third-week total of 137,000 shows the album still leading even as weekly consumption declined from its debut surge. (billboard.com; billboard.com) “ARIRANG” was released March 20 by Big Hit Music as BTS’s first full group album since the members’ military-service hiatus, and Billboard reported it is the group’s seventh Billboard 200 leader. The album has 14 tracks, including “Swim.” (billboard.com; billboard.com) Billboard’s chart account posted the third-week milestone on X on April 12, and the post had about 24,000 likes as of Monday, April 13. The chart win kept the story moving from the trade press into fan platforms and general entertainment coverage. (x.com; variety.com)
