BTS's 'ARIRANG' Surpasses 5 Billion Streams on Spotify, Setting Record for Albums Released This Year

Group BTS's 5th full-length album, "ARIRANG," has surpassed 5 billion cumulative streams on Spotify, the world's largest music streaming platform, its agency Big Hit Music announced.

This is the highest play count among albums released this year, trailing about 2 billion more streams than Olivia Rodrigo's 3rd album, which ranked second.

Big Hit Music explained that the achievement of "ARIRANG" stands out when compared to the new releases of global pop stars like Bruno Mars or Harry Styles released around a similar time, which recorded about 1 billion to 2 billion streams.

Along with the title track "SWIM" nearing 1 billion streams, all 14 tracks included in "ARIRANG" have surpassed 200 million streams each.

Notably, "No.29," which contains only the sound of the Emille Bell (the Sacred Bell of Great King Seongdeok), also drew attention by achieving 200 million streams.

BTS's 5th full-length album, "ARIRANG," garnered immense interest as a new album released by the members, who stand at the very forefront of the K-pop Korean wave, as a complete group after 3 years and 9 months.

This album exceeded 110 million total streams on its first day of release on March 20.

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