BTS' 'ARIRANG' returns to top 10 on Billboard 200

"ARIRANG," the fifth studio album of K-pop megaband BTS, has returned to the top 10 of the U.S.

Billboard's main albums chart.

The album reached No.

9 on the Billboard 200 in the latest tracking period, up from 26th in the previous week, according to a chart preview by Billboard on Sunday (U.S. time).

The on-week climb was attributed to an increase in album sales following the group's release of a special vinyl edition of "ARIRANG," which includes two bonus tracks: "Voice Message: Love Song" and "Normal." The Billboard also cited BTS' recent co-headlining of the first-ever halftime show at the 2026 FIFA World Cup final, where the group performed its 2020 megahit "Dynamite." Released in March, "ARIRANG" became the first album by a K-pop act to spend three consecutive weeks at No.

1 on the Billboard chart.

Elsewhere on the chart, American singer-songwriter Gracie Abrams clinched her first No.

1 with her third full-length album, "Daughter from Hell." The Billboard 200 ranks the most popular albums of the week in the United States, measured by equivalent album units comprising physical and dig ...