2020 had been a wild ride for the South Korean pop group BTS.
Releasing two albums this year: Map Of The Soul: 7 on February, and Be, which dropped in the early days of this month, now the latter has a deluxe edition.
Its release swiped the No. 1 spot on the Billboard album charts.
With 177,000 were album sales and 30,000 streaming equivalent album units, the deluxe Be sold 242,000 equivalent album units. Its first-week total is the most any group has posted since their own previous album, Map Of The Soul: 7.
That means that in the last two years, they’ve had five chart-topping albums. The last artist to accomplish this feat at a faster rate was Future, who landed five No. 1s in one year and seven months, spanning from 2015’s DS2 to 2017’s Hndrxx.
Megan The Stallion took the No. 2 spot with her debut, Good News, which logged 100,500 units. The album is now the rapper’s highest-charting release, surpassing her projects Fever and Suga, which debuted at No. 10 and No. 7 respectively.
Good News also the most-streamed album of the week, thanks to 115.85 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs.
