BTS tops 115 Apple charts, selling 4.17m in 1 week

The fifth studio album from BTS, “Arirang,” sold 4.17 million copies in one week, a career-best for the septet, Big Hit Music said Friday, citing a local data firm. The album dropped on March 20 and sold 3.98 million copies on the day of its release, easily surpassing the first-week sales of its previous LP, “Map of the Seoul: 7,” in 2020. It landed atop Apple Music albums charts in 102 regions and added 13 more by Friday, notching No. 1 spots on Oricon’s weekly, weekly combined and weekly digit