BTS ARIRANG Becomes Biggest Global Album Of 2026 With 10.18 Million Sales Milestone
The ARIRANG album from BTS will be a monster album with continued international success. World Wide Album Sales are hitting 10.18 million equivalent album sales (EAS) and is the biggest World Wide Release of any artist for 2026. Data provided by Chartmasters shows that BTS’ fifth studio album has an overall cumulative of 10,183,000 total EAS and reflects BTS’ success from a much anticipated return from more than two years of inactivity.
All the numbers for ARIRANG, including the number of streams, are astronomical. Therefore, ARIRANG was streamed in both digital format and downloaded from over 2.53 billion times globally and averages more than 25.4 million streams per day! Industry estimates show that BTS has approximately received 5.43 million EAS from physical album sales and approximately 4.49 million from streaming-equivalent sales. After two months of being released on March 20, the album has maintained its strength in sales and streaming instead of dropping off sharply following release.
The most recent data tracking ARIRANG shows that more than 45,000 EAS-equivalent during individual days but continues to have an average of approximately 72,000 EAS-equivalent sales globally. This long term success from ARIRANG has put smiles on many industry evaluators and reflects fan loyalty from BTS’ international base once again.
The album ARIRANG quickly made waves internationally after its release; it debuted in the top 10 of several countries, including the USA, UK, Germany and Australia. After just one day on Spotify, ARIRANG had over 100 million streams and became the largest debut album on the platform for 2026.
In addition, all of the songs on the album have now been on the Billboard Global 200 chart for seven weeks, setting another record for these K-Pop superstars. According to preliminary figures released earlier today, BTS sold nearly 4 million copies of their first-day physical recording.
The latest leg of BTS's ongoing worldwide tour — ARIRANG — is expected to bring in an estimated $500 million in ticket revenues, placing them among the greatest touring artists of the year by gross receipts alone (2026).
