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.
![LOVE YOURSELF 結 Answer](http://img.sbs.co.kr/newimg/news/20180829/201222752_1280.jpg)
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.
![BTS](http://img.sbs.co.kr/newimg/news/20180903/201224337_1280.jpg)
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.
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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)