[theqoo] EARLY PREDICTIONS OF BILLBOARD'S HOT 100 NEXT WEEK (GOLDEN, BTS) (FT. BILLBOARD 200)

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1. Wow, so GOLDEN is still up there

2. GOLDEN is seriously amazing

3. Weren't they predicted to be 1st?

4. Are they going down because of the remixes and covers?

5. When is Choosin' Texas gonna go down?ㄷㄷㄷ

6. Wow GOLDEN

7. Why is everyone so jealous...

8. At first, Bangtan's song was supposed to rank higher. But didn't Kanye also release something?

9. The drop isn't as bad as I thought. They really held their ground.

10. It's pretty impressive, considering this is the U.S., where they won't even turn on the radio for you, congrats congrats!!

[theqoo] BTS 'ARIRANG' RANKS #1 ON BILLBOARD 200... 7TH #1

BTS’ ARIRANG debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated April 4), scoring the reunited pop group its seventh leader. The set opens with 641,000 equivalent album units earned — the largest week for an album by a group since the chart began measuring by units in December 2014. Of that sum, 532,000 are in pure album sales (purchases of physical and digital albums), landing BTS the biggest sales week for an album by a group in more than a decade.

ARIRANG’s first-week sales number was largely powered by physical sales (516,000) bolstered by its availability across 17 vinyl variants and nine CD editions, all of which have the same tracklist. (All contain collectible items such as photocards, stickers and posters.) Vinyl sales accounted for 208,000 — BTS’ best sales week on vinyl and the largest by a group in the modern era (since Luminate began electronically tracking sales in 1991). It’s also the sixth-largest vinyl sales week for an album in the modern era; Taylor Swift has the top five. The biggest week for a vinyl set in the modern era was registered by the opening week of Showgirl, with 1.334 million.

ARIRANG’s release date of March 20 was announced on Jan. 1, though its title was not revealed until Jan. 16. The album was ushered in alongside the global live Netflix special BTS THE COMEBACK LIVE | ARIRANG on March 21. The set’s lead single, “SWIM,” was released simultaneously with the album, and the track’s music video premiered the same day.

Later in the release week, BTS performed on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, on March 25 and 26. Next month, the BTS WORLD TOUR ‘ARIRANG’ will launch on April 9 in Goyang, South Korea, and arrive in the United States on April 25 in Tampa, Fla. The trek will continue through the U.S. and Mexico through May 28, before heading overseas. The tour returns to the U.S. on Aug. 1 and is set to wrap its U.S./Canada dates Sept. 6 in Inglewood, Calif.

CR: Billboard

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1. Congrats congrats, as expected of Bangtan!!

2. They got so much hate here. I'm proud. Congrats congrats

3. Congrats congrats

4. They're cool, congrats congrats

5. Every time they release something, they hit their career high overseas

6. Somebody like you~~

7. Congrats!!

8. Congrats congrats! I support you!!!!

9. Album chart? Is this different from the HOT 100?

> Yup, HOT 100 will come out tomorrow