BTS has dominated Japan’s Oricon charts.
On March 25, Oricon reported that BTS’s fifth studio album, Arirang (ARIRANG), is set to top the Weekly Combined Album Ranking, the Weekly Album Ranking and the Weekly Digital Album Ranking dated March 30, sweeping Oricon’s primary charts.
Arirang logged 11,851 first-week digital downloads on the Weekly Digital Album Ranking, surpassing the group’s previous best of 11,396 for the mini album BE (dated Nov. 30, 2020). That total is the highest first-week digital album download figure ever recorded by a foreign artist in Japan. The milestone also marks BTS’s 10th No. 1 on that chart.
The group is also making huge waves on global platforms. On Apple Music’s Global Top 100 chart dated March 24, BTS occupied the top five slots. The title track “SWIM” led at No. 1, followed by “Body to Body” (No. 2), “Hooligan” (No. 3), “FYA” (No. 4) and “NORMAL” (No. 5).
Overall, 12 BTS tracks placed in the Global Top 20, including “Aliens” (No. 7), “2.0” (No. 8), “Like Animals” (No. 11), “Merry Go Round” (No. 12), “they don't know 'bout us” (No. 14), “Please” (No. 17) and “One More Night” (No. 20).
“SWIM” also held the No. 1 spot on Spotify’s Daily Top Songs — Global chart for three consecutive days (March 20–22).
Meanwhile, the “BTS Comeback Live: Arirang” event on March 21 at Seoul’s Gwanghwamun Square drew an estimated 18.4 million concurrent viewers, according to Netflix’s real‑time tally. Social media mentions tied to the comeback reached roughly 2.62 billion.
After wrapping the Spotify collaboration “Spotify X BTS: SWIMSIDE” on March 24, BTS will make a full-group appearance on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on March 26–27 — their first complete-group television appearance in about four years and eight months.
