On September 3, Billboard announced that BTS hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart for the second time this year with 'LOVE YOURSELF 結 Answer', as the album reached the top of the chart dated September 8.
Billboard added that BTS is the first pop act since English-Irish pop boy band One Direction to hit No. 1 with two separate albums in less than 12 months.
Units are comprised of traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA), and streaming equivalent albums (SEA).
According to Nielsen Music, 'LOVE YOURSELF 結 Answer' topped the chart with 185,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending August 30, out of which 141,000 of those units were made in traditional album sales.
Not only it was the first time for a K-pop act to top the chart, but it was also the first non-English album to hit No. 1 on the chart in over 12 years, since classical crossover quartet Il Divo's second studio album 'Ancora' in 2006.
Meanwhile, BTS' latest title track 'IDOL' of 'LOVE YOURSELF 結 Answer' recently set the YouTube record for most views in 24 hours with over 45 million views.
(Lee Narin, Credit= Big Hit Entertainment, 'ibighit' YouTube)
(SBS Star)