BTS’s ‘ARIRANG’ Achieves Historic Triple Crown on Oricon: What This Means for K-Pop
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[Sports Today reporter Lim Si-ryeong] BTS has completed a chart sweep on Japan’s Oricon charts, taking three major weekly titles.
On the 25th, Oricon said BTS’s fifth full-length album, ARIRANG, simultaneously topped the March 30 weekly Combined Album Ranking, the Weekly Album Ranking and the Weekly Digital Album Ranking.
ARIRANG recorded 11,851 first-week downloads on the Weekly Digital Album Ranking, surpassing the group’s previous best of 11,396 downloads set by the 2020 mini album BE (dated Nov. 30, 2020). That number is the highest ever for an international artist on the chart, and it marks BTS’s 10th overall No. 1 on that chart.
The group’s momentum extended across global platforms. On the 24th, BTS occupied the top five spots on Apple Music’s Global Top 100 chart: the title track “SWIM” led at No. 1, followed by “Body to Body” (No. 2), “Hooligan” (No. 3), “FYA” (No. 4) and “NORMAL” (No. 5). They placed 12 songs in the top 20 overall, including “Aliens” (No. 7), “2.0” (No. 8), “Like Animals” (No. 11), “Merry Go Round” (No. 12), “they don’t know ’bout us” (No. 14), “Please” (No. 17) and “One More Night” (No. 20). “SWIM” also held No. 1 on Spotify’s Daily Top Songs Global chart for three consecutive days (March 20–22). The new album ARIRANG — overseen in its entirety by chairman Bang Si-hyuk — has posted significant chart results immediately after release.
Meanwhile, BTS COMEBACK LIVE: ARIRANG, staged around Seoul’s Gwanghwamun Square on the 21st, drew 18.4 million concurrent viewers according to Netflix’s real-time tally. Social media mentions tied to the comeback totaled 2.62 billion. After wrapping the Spotify-collaborated event “Spotify X BTS: SWIMSIDE” on the 24th, BTS will appear as a full group on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on March 26–27 — their first full-group appearance on the program in about four years and eight months.
[Sports Today reporter Lim Si-ryeong ent@stoo.com]
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