Congratulations to BTS who claim their second Number 1 on the Official Irish Albums Chart with BE. The boyband’s fifth Korean-language album was the biggest record of the week on CD and download.
BTS have scored two Number 1 albums in 2020 following Map of the Soul: 7 in February, making them the first group in 10 years since the Glee Cast in 2010 to have two Number 1 albums in the same year.
The last act to claim two Number 1s in the same calendar year was Ed Sheeran in 2017 with X (which first hit Number 1 in 2014) and ÷.
The last act to have two new Number 1s in the same year was Bruce Springsteen in 2012 with studio album Wrecking Ball and his 1995 Greatest Hits which went to the top spot for the first time.
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