Four songs from the album debut in the Hot 100’s top 40, led by “Swim” at No. 1.
BTS dominates Billboard’s latest charts (dated April 4) following the release of the group’s new album, ARIRANG.
Released March 20 via BigHit Music/Geffen/Interscope Capitol, the LP launches at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 641,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in its opening week, according to Luminate. It marks the biggest week of 2026 and the largest since Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl debuted with 4.002 million in October. It also earns the eighth-biggest week of the 2020s decade.
ARIRANG earns BTS its seventh No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and first since Proof in 2022.
The release also powers BTS back to No. 1 on the Billboard Artist 100 chart, where it leads for a 22nd total week and for the first time since June 2022. Since the chart launched in 2014, only four acts have spent more weeks at No. 1: Taylor Swift (137), Drake (38), Morgan Wallen (34) and The Weeknd (29).
On the Billboard Hot 100, BTS charts 13 songs from ARIRANG, led by “Swim” at No. 1. Here’s a recap:
Rank, Title
No. 1, “Swim”
No. 25, “Body to Body”
No. 35, “Hooligan”
No. 36, “FYA”
No. 41, “Normal”
No. 47, “Aliens”
No. 50, “2.0”
No. 52, “Merry Go Round”
No. 53, “Like Animals”
No. 56, “They Don’t Know ‘bout Us”
No. 61, “One More Night”
No. 63, “Please”
No. 68, “Into the Sun”
With 13 debuts, BTS ups its career total to 39 Hot 100-charting hits. The group first appeared on the chart dated Oct. 7, 2017, with “DNA,” which peaked at No. 67. To date, 18 of the act’s entries have reached the top 40, 10 peaked in the top 10 and seven hit No. 1: “Dynamite”; “Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)” with Jawsh 685 and Jason Derulo; “Life Goes On”; “Butter”; “Permission to Dance”; “My Universe” with Coldplay; and “Swim.”
The Artist 100 measures acts’ activity across key metrics of music consumption: album sales, track sales, radio airplay and streaming. Using a methodology comprising those metrics, the chart provides a weekly multidimensional ranking of artist popularity.
