BTS earns their fifth No. 1 album with ‘BE’ on Billboard 200, their second chart-topper this year after ‘Map Of The Soul: 7’

By Bollywood Hungama News Network -

November 30, 2020 - 11:14 AM IST

Kicking off Monday on a huge note, global superstars BTS have earned their fifth No. 1 album with their latest release 'BE' on the Billboard 200 chart. The chart announcement was made on November 30, 2020. This makes their second chart-topper after their February 21, 2020, full-length album release 'Map Of The Soul: 7'.

BTS earns their fifth No. 1 album with ‘BE’ on Billboard 200, their second chart-topper this year after ‘Map Of The Soul: 7’

According to Billboard, "Of Be’s 242,000 units earned in the tracking week ending Nov. 26, 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)."

Of BE’s 242,000 units earned in the tracking week ending Nov. 26, album sales comprise 177,000.
— billboard charts (@billboardcharts) November 29, 2020

.@BTS_twt has earned five No. 1 albums in just over two years and six months.
The last group to tally five No. 1s faster was @thebeatles, who earned five No. 1s in just under two years and five months with Yesterday and Today (July 30, 1966) and The White Album (Dec. 28, 1968).
— billboard charts (@billboardcharts) November 29, 2020

The report further revealed, "'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)."

.@BTS_twt's first-week total for 'BE' is the largest for an album by a group, both in terms of equivalent album units and album sales, since BTS’ own 'Map of the Soul: 7,' which earned 422,000 units in its first week, of which 347,000 were in album sales (chart dated March 7).
— billboard charts (@billboardcharts) November 29, 2020

.@BTS_twt is the first group to earn two No. 1 albums in 2020, and the second act overall, after YoungBoy Never Broke Again (with '38 Baby 2' and 'Top').
— billboard charts (@billboardcharts) November 29, 2020

In 'BE', BTS opens themselves up to express their mixed feelings about this situation—fear and anxiety mingled with the determination to overcome all this. The album contains the band’s emotions and ruminations they had throughout this year, and the story of “us” continuing the existential journey. That is also the reasoning behind the album’s title, BE, that stands for “to be” or “existence” and does not abide by any form.