BTS is rewriting the record books. The group’s fifth studio album, Arirang, has claimed a third consecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, racking up 124,000 equivalent album units for the week ending April 9, according to Luminate. The milestone makes Arirang the longest-running No. 1 album by any K-pop act in Billboard 200 history.
The feat is particularly staggering in context. Before this album cycle, no BTS project had ever spent more than a single week at the top of the chart. Now they’ve done it three times in a row. The last group to achieve that was Mumford and Sons, whose 2012 album Babel opened with three consecutive weeks at No. 1 before eventually returning to the top spot twice more following its Grammy win. That was over a decade ago.
Arirang debuted on March 20, scoring 641,000 equivalent album units in its opening frame, the biggest debut of 2026 so far and the strongest opening since Taylor Swift‘s The Life of a Showgirl. The album’s lead single “Swim” also bowed at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 the same week. Meanwhile, the group’s world tour is already underway, with BTS having just played to 132,000 fans across three nights at Goyang Stadium in South Korea.
ARMY has always been a force. But right now, BTS is operating on a different level entirely.
