BTS stays atop Oricon chart for 3rd week

BTS Photo by Big Hit Music via The Korea Herald/Asia News Network

SEOUL — BTS maintained its No. 1 spot on Oricon’s weekly album ranking for the third time, according to the tally that was announced on Tuesday.

The band’s best-of album “BTS, The Best” sold 27,000 units last week extending the status as a chart-topper for another week. The album is the first to stay atop on the chart for three consecutive weeks this year.

The album sold 782,000 copies in the first week of release and landed at the top of the chart while recording best album sales in the first week this year in Japan. It also replaced record set by its fourth Japanese LP “Map of the Soul: 7 ~ The Journey ~” that sold the most in the first week by an international male artist ever at 564,000.

“BTS, The Best” consists of 23 tracks that chronicles all songs the band released in Japan, including “Dynamite,” a mega hit song from August 2020.