BTS album still #1
BTS’s album ARIRANG remained at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for a third consecutive week, a run the briefing calls the longest‑running #1 for a K‑pop album. (x.com) The social posts also noted ARIRANG became 2026’s most‑streamed album on Spotify with more than 1.26 billion streams. (x.com)
BTS stayed at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for a third straight week, extending the longest run at the top for a K-pop album. (billboard.com) Billboard said *ARIRANG* earned 124,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending April 9, down 34% from the prior week. The chart is dated April 18, 2026. (billboard.com) The album debuted at No. 1 on the April 4 Billboard 200 with 641,000 units, including 532,000 in pure sales. Billboard said that was the biggest week for an album by a group since the chart began measuring by units in December 2014. (billboard.com) Billboard counts album performance by combining physical and digital sales with streaming and track-equivalent units, so a long stay at No. 1 usually means an album is selling and streaming at the same time. In *ARIRANG*’s case, BTS paired a huge opening sales week with heavy Spotify listening. (officialcharts.com, billboard.com) Spotify said on March 21 that *ARIRANG* became the platform’s most-streamed album in a single day in 2026 and the most-streamed K-pop album in Spotify history. Variety reported the album opened with about 110 million first-day streams globally. (billboard.com, variety.com) By April 13, social posts from Spotify said the album had passed 1.26 billion streams and become the service’s most-streamed album released in 2026. Those platform claims circulated as Billboard confirmed the third week at No. 1. (x.com, billboard.com) The release is BTS’s first album in six years, according to Billboard, and its March 20 arrival came after the group’s yearslong pause in full-group recording activity. That gap helps explain why the comeback opened with unusually large sales and streaming totals at the same time. (billboard.com, billboard.com) The chart run is also landing as BTS has moved back into live promotion. The group opened its *ARIRANG* world tour on April 9 at Goyang Stadium in South Korea. (yahoo.com) Three weeks at No. 1 does not guarantee a longer run, but it already places *ARIRANG* in rarer company than BTS’s earlier chart-toppers, which Billboard said had each spent one week at the summit. For now, the comeback is holding both the sales lead and the streaming attention that put it there. (billboard.com)
