BTS Breaks Records with Map of the Soul : PERSONA

by JJ

So many things have happened since Map of the Soul: PERSONA has dropped! During the days that lead up to its release, BTS were in New York to promote the album to RADIO and to perform on Saturday Night Live. Which definitely helped us getting mad radio play this time around.

Despite being only out for 10 days, Map of the Soul : PERSONA and the tracks in it already have so many achievements.

Here are some of what BTS (and ARMY) has achieved with Map of the Soul : PERSONA and its lead single, Boy With Luv!

KOREAN CHARTS

- Perfect All Kill (PAK - hardest to get, when it charts at top, in all chart, in real time, daily and weekly and ultimately tops instiz chart) for BWL

- #1 GAON 3M Pre-Orders

- #1 HANTEO 2.13M sales 

iTunes

- #1 iTunes Album 87 countries

- #1 iTunes Single 68 countries

- #1 Single on Worldwide iTunes Charts “Boy With Luv” (x4days)

- #1 Album on Worldwide iTunes Charts “Map Of The Soul: PERSONA” (x4days) 

Youtube

- #1 Youtube 24H BWL 78M

- Many of BTS’s videos have also been on the trending page of Youtube, like the Dionysus performance, BWL Dance Practice and more 

Spotify

- #2 Spotify 24H BWL 6.7M streams

- BWL is on multiple playlists on Spotify like Today’s Top Hits, etc

US BILLBOARD CHARTS

BB200: #1 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart

- 3rd album from BTS to snag the #1 within 11 months (May 18, 2018 - April 12, 2019)

- Last time this happened was The Beatles in 1995-1996 with Anthology 1, Anthology 2 and Anthology 3 all debuted at No. 1 in a stretch of 11 months and a week (between Dec. 9, 1995 and Nov. 16, 1996)

- It also became the #1 Album in the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, China and Japan

Hot100: #8 Boy With Luv.

- BTS’s highest charting single

- #95 Make It Right (cowritten with Ed Sheeran)

- Makes BTS the 1st Korean Act to have multiple simultaneous entries on Hot100

- HOME #1 Bubbling Under Hot100

- Mikrokosmos #2 Bubbling Under Hot100

- Dionysus #11 Bubbling Under Hot100
- Jamais Vu #14 Bubbling Under Hot100

World Albums Chart : #1

World Digital Songs Chart

- #1 Boy With Luv

- #2 Make It Right

- #3 Mikrokosmos

- #4 HOME

- #5 Dionysius

- #6 Jamais Vu

- #7 Intro: PERSONA

That reeks legendary behavior, fam! The boys are also announced to perform at the Billboard Music Awards on May 1st with Halsey, and are nominated for 2 awards: Top Social Artist and Top Duo/Group!