BTS's "ARIRANG" Is Still a Billboard 200 Top-25 Album Five Months After Release
BTS's "ARIRANG" Is Still a Billboard 200 Top-25 Album Five Months After Release Photo: I Dare U JK / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0) Five months after its March 20 release, BTS's tenth studio album "ARIRANG" is still sitting at No. 21 on the Billboard 200, according to Billboard's chart dated August 22, 2026. In an industry where most albums exit the top 100 within two months, a March release holding a top-25 position in late August is the kind of stat that deserves more attention than it usually gets. The domestic sales structure behind the album explains part of the durability. Per Circle Chart's official midyear report for the first half of 2026, "ARIRANG" appears twice among the year's top-selling albums — the Weverse version at No. 37 with 346,677 copies and the LP version at No. 50 with 247,334 copies. Multi-version releases are standard K-pop practice, but what stands out here is that both editions were still accumulating me...