BTS Billboard for 2 consecutive weeks...What's the most consecutive album? [★FOCUS]

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After three years and nine months of top idol group BTS (BTS, RM Jin, Jimin, J-Hope, Suga, V Jungkook), the comeback album "ARIRANG" once again recorded its first record, keeping the top spot on the Billboard 200 chart for two consecutive weeks.

According to a chart preview article published on Billboard's official website on the 6th, BTS's fifth regular album "ARIRANG" topped the Billboard 200 chart on April 11, 2026.

BTS, which entered No. 1 with its debut in hot shots on the previous week's chart, became the first Korean singer to top the Billboard 200 chart for two consecutive weeks.

Billboard said, "Arirang recorded 187,000 album units on the chart this week, of which 114,000 were counted as pure album sales (real and digital purchases). "The SEA unit (sales volume converted by the number of streams) is 65,000, and the rest is 8,000 TEA units (sales volume converted by the number of digital sound source downloads)," he explained.

Earlier on April 4, 2026, "Arirang" topped the Billboard 200 chart for the seventh time in its team's career. "Arirang" recorded 641,000 album units in the first week of its release, the highest weekly performance based on group albums since Billboard introduced the unit count in December 2014. It also sold 532,000 pure albums, the highest weekly sales among group albums in more than a decade.

BTS became the first Korean singer to top the Billboard 200 chart with her 2018 album LOVE YOURSELF 轉 "Tear." Since then, BTS has topped the Billboard 200 chart with two albums a year, topping the 2018 LOVE YOURSELF 結 "Answer." BTS then succeeded in making its Billboard 200 chart No. 1 and Hot Shot debut with MAP OF THE SOUL: PERSONA in 2019, MAP OF THE SOUL: 7, 'BE' in 2020, and 'Proof' in 2022. However, all of these albums failed to reach No. 1 for two consecutive weeks.

Meanwhile, among the albums that topped the Billboard 200 chart for more than two consecutive weeks, top 10 albums included the OST album "West Side Story," which topped the list for 54 consecutive weeks, 37 weeks of Michael Jackson's "Thriller," 24 weeks of Adele's "21," 24 weeks of Prince's "Purple Rain," 24 weeks of Bigis' "Saturday Night Fever," 21 weeks of MC Hammer "Please Hammer, Don't Hurt"em, and 20 weeks of Elvis Presley's "Blue Hawaii."

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