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.
