BTS’s Arirang Debuts With Record-Breaking First-Week Sales
TL;DR Summary
BTS’s comeback album Arirang, their first full-length in six years, moved 641,000 total copies in its first week (532,000 pure album sales), the biggest first-week figure for a group since Billboard started tracking streaming in 2014, with record single-day streams on Spotify and Apple Music as the members returned from military service and solo projects. Jin is absent from the songwriting credits due to tour obligations, and the album features a slate of collaborators including Ryan Tedder, Flume, Diplo, and others.
- BTS Are Back on Top With Record-Breaking First-Week ‘Arirang’ Sales Rolling Stone
- Nobody Can Beat BTS — Even As New Albums From Music’s Stars Debut forbes.com
- Review: On ‘Arirang,’ BTS Is Too Big to Fail. But Not Too Big to Succeed. The New York Times
- BTS Blasts to No. 1 on ARIA Chart With ‘ARIRANG’ billboard.com
- BTS’ ‘Arirang’ Debuts at No. 1 on Albums Chart With Biggest Sales Week for a Group in Over a Decade Variety
Reading Insights
Total Reads
0
Unique Readers
12
Time Saved
13 min
vs 14 min read
Condensed
97%
2,751 → 81 words
Want the full story? Read the original article
Read on Rolling Stone