3 min readHyderabadApr 15, 2026 02:46 PM IST When BTS dropped ARIRANG after nearly four years away, the numbers were always going to be big. What nobody quite expected was that they would keep coming. Three consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 is a number that sounds normal on paper, but in today’s music landscape, where streaming surges fade fast and chart momentum is hard to hold, it means a great deal more than that. The last group album to pull this off was Mumford and Sons’ Babel in 2013, which went on to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Now that belongs to ARIRANG. How it got here ARIRANG opened with 641,000 equivalent album units in the United States during its debut tracking week, making it the largest opening week of 2026 so far. In its second week, the album earned 187,000 equivalent album units, a 71% decline from debut, but still enough to hold No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Also Read: Exclusive | ‘Shah Rukh Khan …