BTS dropped their first studio album in nearly six years on Friday (March 20), breaking records across major streaming platforms.<\/p>\n
Arirang<\/em>\u00a0pulled in over\u00a0110 million<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0streams<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0Spotify<\/strong>\u00a0in its first 24 hours, breaking the record for the most-streamed K-pop album in Spotify history and the most-streamed album in a single day this year, Spotify\u00a0announced<\/a> on social media over the weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n Big Hit Music said Arirang also sold 3.98 million<\/a> copies on its first day of release, citing local album sales tracker Hanteo Chart. The figure surpasses BTS’s previous first-week record of 3.37 million copies set by Map of the Soul: 7 in February 2020 \u2014 in a single day rather than a full week.<\/p>\n Arirang <\/i>has now landed on the 12th spot on Spotify’s all-time list for opening-day streams across any genre, according to<\/a> Variety.<\/i> Taylor Swift\u2019s The Tortured Poets Department<\/i> still holds the title for the best first day on Spotify with 314 million <\/b>streams on its debut.<\/p>\n Besides Swift, who holds the top four spots, the only other artists ahead of BTS are Bad<\/b> Bunny<\/b>, Drake<\/b>, Playboi<\/b> Carti<\/b>, and Travis<\/b> Scott<\/b>, according to Variety.<\/i><\/i><\/p>\n All 14 tracks from the album also occupied spots<\/a> on the Spotify Global Top 50<\/strong><\/a>, with the lead single SWIM, <\/i>debuting at No. 1 on the Spotify Daily Global Chart and Body to Body <\/i>taking the second spot.<\/p>\n
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