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BTS's 'Arirang' drops on Billboard 200 after three-week reign

Published: 20 Apr. 2026, 08:44

Members of boy band BTS pose for a photograph during their performance titled, ″BTS The Comeback Live: Arirang,″ in central Seoul on March 21. [NETFLIX/BIGHIT MUSIC]

K-pop boy band BTS's latest album, "Arirang," has slipped to No. 3 on the Billboard main albums chart after topping the U.S. chart for three consecutive weeks.

The group's fifth full-length album placed behind country singer Ella Langley's "Dandelion" and Morgan Wallen's "I'm the Problem" (2025) on the Billboard 200, Billboard said in a chart preview Sunday.

During the latest tracking week, "Arirang" earned 78,000 equivalent album units, a 37 percent decline from the previous week.

The Billboard 200 ranks the most popular albums of the week in the United States, measured by equivalent album units comprising physical and digital sales, as well as streaming and digital track downloads converted into album sales.

“Arirang” previously made history as the first album by a K-pop act to spend three weeks at No. 1.

Led by the lead single "Swim," the 14-track album marks the band's first release after a four-year hiatus caused by its members' mandatory military service.

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