BTS’ BE on Billboard 200
Popular Korean boy band ‘BTS’ lands its fifth Number One album ‘BE’ on the Billboard 200 chart this week.
BTS have released their new album BE (Deluxe Edition) in November. This eight-track album features their hit single ‘Dynamite’ and marks the first full-length from the K-pop stars since MAP OF THE SOUL : 7 which was released earlier this year. Also on the tracklist is ‘Skit’, a recording of the band’s conversations after they learned that ‘Dynamite’ had become their first no. 1 song in the United States. Check out the full album below.
BTS appeared on the American Music Awards 2020, were held on November 22, 2020, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. They previously brought ‘Dynamite’ to the MTV Video Music Awards and delivered a stripped-down performance of the song on NPR’s ‘Tiny Desk.’
The K-Pop stars’ new set, which was released via Big Hit Entertainment on November 20, arrives with 242,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending November 26, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data.
BTS’ Be is the second chart-topper of 2020 for the pop group, following Map Of The Soul: 7, which debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated March 7. Of Be’s 242,000 units earned to date, album sales comprise 177,000, TEA units comprise 35,000 and SEA units comprise 30,000 (equating to 48.56 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs).
Be is a mostly-Korean-language release, but does feature the group’s first all-English song, “Dynamite.” The track marked the act’s first No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart dated Sept. 5.
It also recently garnered the group its first Grammy Award nomination, for best pop duo/group performance.
Be is the 11th mostly non-English album to hit No. 1. Of the 11 leaders that were recorded mostly in a language other than English, five have been by BTS.
The album’s first week is the largest for an album by a group, both in terms of equivalent album units and album sales, since BTS’ own last No. 1 album, Map of the Soul: 7, earned 422,000 units in its first week, of which 347,000 were in album sales (chart dated March 7).
Also in the new Billboard top 10, Megan Thee Stallion’s Good News bows at No. 2, Taylor Swift’s former No. 1 Folklore flies from 29 to 6 after its vinyl edition was released to Target stores and her Disney+ special premiered, and Carrie Underwood’s holiday set My Gift returns to the top 10 with a jump from 25 to 10.