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ARIRANG Spends Second Consecutive Week at #1 on Billboard 200 — K-pop First
Billboard confirmed that BTS's ARIRANG held the #1 position on the Billboard 200 (chart dated April 11) for a second consecutive week, earning 187,000 equivalent album units in the week ending April 2 — a 71% drop from its record 641,000-unit debut. ARIRANG is the first K-pop album ever to spend two consecutive weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200, surpassing all previous BTS albums which each peaked for a single week. Of the 187,000 units: 114,000 were album sales, 65,000 from streaming equivalents (SEA), and 8,000 from track equivalents (TEA). Kanye West's 'Bully' debuted at #2 behind BTS.