BTS' 'ARIRANG' Dominates Billboard 200 for Third Week, Longest Run for a Group in Over a Decade
BTS' album 'ARIRANG' secures its third week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, marking the longest reign for a group album in over a decade. Read on for details on sales, streaming, and the rest of the top 10.
BTS' ARIRANG continues its reign, capturing a third consecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (dated April 18). The album garnered 124,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending April 9 (a 34% decrease), according to Luminate. ARIRANG initially debuted atop the chart dated April 4.
The last album by a group to hold the No. 1 spot for at least three weeks was Mumford & Sons’ Babel, which spent five nonconsecutive weeks at the summit in 2012-13. Babel also spent its first three weeks on the chart at No. 1 (charts dated Oct. 13-27, 2012) and then returned to the top for two more weeks (March 2 and 9, 2013) following its win for album of the year at the Grammy Awards. Notably, Babel was also the last group album to debut with three weeks at No. 1.
ARIRANG marks the first album to spend its first three weeks at No. 1 since Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl, which dominated for its first seven weeks (Oct. 18-Nov. 29, 2025), of its 12 total weeks at No. 1.
The latest Billboard 200 chart sees a relatively stable top 10, with no new entries. This is the first time in three months that the top 10 has remained unchanged since the list dated Jan. 17.
Of ARIRANG's 124,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, album sales comprised 71,000 (down 34%; it’s No. 1 on Top Album Sales for a third week), SEA units comprised 50,000 (down 24%, equaling 52.44 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it moves 3-4 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise 3,000 (down 65%).
Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem rises 4-2 on the Billboard 200 (80,000 equivalent album units earned, up 5%); BULLY by Ye (formerly Kanye West) falls one spot to No. 3 (69,000, down 54% in its second week); Don Toliver’s former leader OCTANE climbs 8-4 (57,000, up 7% after new physical editions of the album dropped); and Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving lifts 7-5 (50,000, down 7%). Luke Combs’ The Way I Am remains steady at No. 6 (46,000, down 16%).
Four former No. 1s round out the top 10: Bad Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS ascends 9-7 (45,000 equivalent album units earned, down 9%), Wallen’s One Thing at a Time drives 14-8 (39,000, up 1%), Harry Styles’ Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. steps 10-9 (37,000, down 22%) and Bruno Mars’ The Romantic rises 12-10 (nearly 37,000, down 7%).
Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.
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