BTS' "ARIRANG" Surpasses 5 Billion Spotify Streams, Most-Streamed Album Released This Year

BTS. Photo courtesy of Big Hit Music.

Big Hit Music, the agency of BTS, said on October 14 that the group's fifth studio album, "ARIRANG," has surpassed 5 billion streams on Spotify, making it the most-streamed album released this year.

According to Spotify, as of October 14, "ARIRANG" has about 2 billion more streams than the second-ranked album, Olivia Rodrigo's third studio album. New albums released this year by Bruno Mars and Harry Styles have each recorded between 1 billion and 2 billion streams.

All 14 tracks on the album have also surpassed 200 million streams. The figure includes "Number 29," which features the sound of the Great King Seongdeok Bell. The title track, "SWIM," is nearing 1 billion streams.

"ARIRANG" is BTS' first new album in about three years and nine months. On March 20, its release day, the album's tracks surpassed 110 million streams on Spotify. That same day, all 14 tracks ranked consecutively from No. 1 to No. 14 on Spotify's Daily Top Songs Global chart. "SWIM" topped the chart with about 14 million streams, setting the highest single-day streaming total for a song released this year.

The album also performed well on the U.S. Billboard charts. "ARIRANG" sold 641,000 album units in the United States in its first week and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, the main album chart dated April 4. Album units combine physical and digital album sales with figures converted from streaming and digital song downloads. This was the highest weekly total for a group album since Billboard introduced this measurement in December 2014.

The album then held the top spot for three consecutive weeks. It was the first time in about 14 years that a group album had topped the Billboard 200 for three consecutive weeks, since British band Mumford & Sons did so with "Babel" in 2012.

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