BTS Achieve The Biggest Album Sales Week Of 2020 With ‘Map Of The Soul: 7’

genius.com:

BTS is no stranger to breaking records, and MAP OF THE SOUL: 7 just earned the biggest sales week of the year. The K-pop group’s fourth Korean album notched 422,000 album-equivalent units in its debut week, becoming their fourth No.

1 on the Billboard 200. Billboard notes that The Beatles are the last group to earn four No. 1s faster than BTS, as it took them one year and five months to hit their fourth with 1967’s Magical Mystery Tour. (Notably, the septet’s last release, PERSONA, dropped 10 months prior to 7.) The 20-track LP functions as a semi-repackage album with five cuts off the previous PERSONA release.

While the streaming parties surrounding the one-hour-plus runtime didn’t hurt the SEA numbers, it turns out that album sales formed