Global boy band BTS has set a new personal record with their highly-anticipated comeback album.
On March 20, the seven-member group made their awaited return to the music industry with their fifth full-length album, ‘ARIRANG.’ The album was released physically on the same day, and according to the Hanteo chart, ‘ARIRANG’ recorded 4,169,xxx album sales in its first week of release, setting a new impressive record for the group.
With this milestone, ‘ARIRANG’ has officially become the group’s highest-selling album in both first-day and first-week sales. Remarkably, it surpassed the previous first-week record—held by their fourth full-length album ‘MAP OF THE SOUL : 7’ at 3.3 million copies.
In addition, ‘ARIRANG’ has become the best-selling album released in 2026 among K-pop acts in first-week sales.
Furthermore, BTS has now surpassed more than 30 million sales on the Hanteo chart across their albums since debut.
‘ARIRANG’ features the chart-topping title track “SWIM” and the B-sides “Body to Body,” “Hooligan,” “Aliens,” “FYA,” “2.0,” “No. 29,” “Merry Go Round,” “NORMAL,” “Like Animals,” “they don’t know ’bout us,” “One More Night,” “Please,” and “Into the Sun.”
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