Another new record..BTS's 14-Year History of 260-fold Growth [★FOCUS]

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• BTS's 5th regular album "Arirang" surpassed 4,169,464 early on.Career High following the 4th full-length album 'Map of the Soul: Seven' released in 2020

Group BTS (BTS·RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V, Jungkook) set their own new records. Their career high, which has grown about 260 times over 14 years, is currently ongoing.

According to Hanteo Chart, a record sales aggregation site on the 27th of last month, BTS's fifth full-length album, "ARIRANG," released in three years and nine months on the 20th of the same month, surpassed 4,169,464 copies (sales in a week after its release).

This is a figure that far exceeds the initial 3.37 million copies of the fourth full-length album "MAP OF THE SOUL: 7", which was released in February 2020, and Shinbo achieved a million seller within about 10 minutes of its release and sold 3.98 million copies on the first day alone.

BTS has become an irreplaceable artist, breaking their own records on each album. Based on the initial sales of regular albums released in Korea, they showed tremendous growth of about 260 times, from their first full-length album "DARK & WILD" released in 2014 to "Arirang."

First of all, about 16,000 copies of "Dark & Wild" were initially sold, and about 340,000 copies of its second full-length album "WINGS" in 2016. Since then, the third full-length album "Love Yourself Exhibition Tier" (LOVE YOURSELF 轉 "Tear") has surpassed 1 million copies, and has tripled in three years.

The beginning of the fourth full-length album "Map of the Sol: Seven" released in 2020 was 3.37 million, and the popular new album "Arirang" released in three years and nine months sold 4.17 million copies, far exceeding the initial sales of the previous full-length album. As a result, the initial sales of the fifth album increased more than 260 times compared to the first regular album in Korea.

It has also achieved overwhelming results on domestic and international music charts. According to Billboard in the U.S. on the 30th of last month, "Arirang" debuted at No. 1 on the main album chart "Billboard 200," and the title song "SWIM" ranked No. 2 on the latest chart (April 11). In addition, the songs "Body to Body" (42nd), "Hooligan" (64th), "NORMAL" (73rd), "FYA" (74th), "2.0" (75th), "Alien" (84th), "Like Animals" (90th), "they don't know "about us" (94th) and "Merry Go Round" (96th) were listed in order, and 10 of the 14 songs were successfully charted.

BTS, who has written a steady and explosive growth history for 14 years since his debut, will now embark on a large-scale tour in earnest to blow up the disappointment of the gap. Starting with the main stadium of Goyang Stadium on the 9th, the world tour "BTS World Tour "Arirang" will be held 85 times in 34 cities, including North America, Europe, Asia and South America, via Tokyo Dome, Japan on the 17th and will meet with fans from all over the world.

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