BTS's ARIRANG Tops Billboard 200 in Record-Setting Week
TL;DR
ARIRANG debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 641,000 equivalent album units in its first week (532,000 pure album sales), the largest week for a group since the chart began tracking units in 2014, aided by a strong vinyl sales push; Luke Combs’ The Way I Am enters the top 10 at No. 2.
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- Review: On ‘Arirang,’ BTS Is Too Big to Fail. But Not Too Big to Succeed. The New York Times
- BTS Are Back on Top With Record-Breaking First-Week ‘Arirang’ Sales rollingstone.com
- BTS' New Album 'ARIRANG' Breaks Spotify Records Immediately After Release Yahoo
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