BTS’ ARIRANG captures a third consecutive, and total, week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (dated April 18), as the set earned 124,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending April 9 (down 34%), according to Luminate. The album debuted atop the chart dated April 4.
The last album by a group to spend at least three weeks at No. 1 was Mumford & Sons’ Babel, which had five nonconsecutive weeks atop the list in 2012-13. It 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. Babel was also the last album by a group to spend its first three weeks at No. 1.
ARIRANG is the first album to spend its first three weeks at No. 1 since Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl racked up its first seven weeks atop the list (Oct. 18-Nov. 29, 2025), of its 12 total weeks at No. 1.
It’s a quiet week in the top 10 on the latest Billboard 200, as there are no debuts in the region. It’s the first time there are no debuts in the top 10 in three months, since the Jan. 17-dated list.
Of ARIRANG’s 124,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, album sales comprise 71,000 (down 34%; it’s No. 1 on Top Album Sales for a third week), SEA units comprise 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 chart-topping I’m the Problem pushes 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 is a non-mover at No. 6 (46,000, down 16%).
Four former No. 1s fill out the rest of the top 10, as 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%).
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