First time for a non-Japanese overseas artist.. BTS, accumulates 1 million points on Japan's Oricon

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Boy group BTS has swept records as the first overseas artist in the Japanese music market.

According to Oricon on the 12th, BTS' fifth full-length album "ARIRANG" reached a cumulative total of 1 million points on the "Combined Album Ranking" (as of August 17), which sums up physical album sales, digital downloads, and streaming figures.

With this achievement, BTS now holds its third cumulative 1-million-point album following the Japanese best-of album "BTS, THE BEST" and the fourth full-length album "MAP OF THE SOUL : 7 ~ THE JOURNEY ~". This is the third such record in history after local popular artists Snow Man and Mrs. GREEN APPLE, and BTS remains the only overseas artist to achieve this feat.

BTS also added another achievement on Billboard Japan. According to a report on the 12th, the digital single "Dynamite," released in 2020, surpassed 1 billion cumulative streams. This figure combines play counts from major Japanese music platforms including Amazon Music, Spotify, and LINE Music, along with YouTube Music view counts provided by Luminate. "Dynamite" is the first overseas song to reach 1 billion streams and also holds the record for the most-streamed single among BTS' solo tracks.

"Dynamite" was BTS' first English-language song and became the first K-pop group to top the US Billboard Main Song Chart "Hot 100" on September 5 of that year. In Japan, it ranked second on the annual chart of Billboard Japan's comprehensive song chart "Hot 100" in 2021.

"ARIRANG" previously swept both the "Album Ranking" and "Combined Album Ranking" at Oricon's "First Half-Year Ranking 2026," released last June, securing a double crown. With sales exceeding 700,000 copies in the first-half "Album Ranking," it marks the first time since 2004 that any album has achieved such figures, following the legendary rock band Queen's compilation album "Jewels." Additionally, in the first-half "Combined Album Ranking," BTS surpassed 800,000 points to claim the top spot, becoming only the third act in history after local popular groups King & Prince and Snow Man, and the first overseas artist to do so.

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