BTS’s Arirang Debuts at No. 1 With Record-Setting Week Fueled by Vinyl
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BTS earns its seventh No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with Arirang, opening with 641,000 equivalent album units (532,000 pure sales) and a vinyl push of 208,000 copies across 17 variants, delivering the biggest week for a group in more than a decade and the largest vinyl‑led boost since 2013; the release follows BTS completing mandatory military service and was promoted with a Seoul concert and a Netflix documentary.
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