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BTS Smashes Records with ARIRANG, Swim

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BTS dominates YouTube and Billboard charts with their comeback album ARIRANG and lead single Swim, breaking records and proving their reunions massive impact on global music.

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BTS Smashes Records with ARIRANG, Swim

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Music News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now!BTS Smashes Records with ARIRANG, Swim. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.

On April 2nd, BTS just dropped their comeback album ARRing and lead single Swim and their owning YouTube's weekly charts like Nobody's Business. Swim hit number 1 on the Global Top Songs Chart with over 83 million views worldwide. The group landed 11 tracks in the Global Top 100, proving their reunion is a total takeover. On the US Top Songs Chart for the week ending, March 31st, Swim let again 1 of 5 BTS songs in the mix. American fans streamed it more than 6.2 million times, blowing past the runner by almost 2 million views. Army is showing up huge, feeling this splash while older hits like Dynamite from 2020 climb back to number 81 globally, even edging. Out newer tracks like, please at number 90. Beyond YouTube, Swim debuted at number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, their 7th leader there, and they swept the top 9 spots on the Global 200. Having Taylor Swift's record for most top 10s in a week, ARRing topped the Billboard

200, UK albums, and ARRia charts too. Spotify crowned ARRing, the most streamed album in a single day this year, and the biggest K-pop album ever on the platform. Even with YouTube pulling data from Billboard charts earlier this year, BTS keys rewriting the rules across the board, from the world of music, powered by AI. This is Music News today.

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