BTS Has Now Became The Only Artist With Bestselling Album Of 2020 In World
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BTS Has Now Became The Only Artist With Bestselling Album Of 2020 In World

BTS Now Has The Bestselling Album Of 2020 In The United States, South Korea, Japan, And Worldwide!

When BTS fans talk about the group’s world domination, they’re not boasting. Following the release of their new Japanese album, Map of the Soul: Journey, the Korean pop septet now achieved the bestselling album of 2020 in the United States, Korea, Japan, and worldwide. 

BTS Has Now Became The Only Artist With Bestselling Album Of 2020 In World
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Soon after its release, Map of the Soul: 7 – The Journey easily became the bestselling album of the year in Japan within its first week, while smashing several daily records along the way. The album contains the Japanese versions of songs from Love Yourself: Answer 2018, Map of the Soul: Persona 2019, and Map of the Soul: 7, 2020. Along with four new Japanese tracks scored historic first-day sales of 447,000 and passed 500,000 copies in its second day. It ultimately topped the Oricon Albums Chart for five consecutive days and sold 564,000 copies in its first week.

BTS in America 2020

While Map of the Soul: 7 – The Journey rules Oricon’s yearly chart, Map of the Soul: 7 continues to dominate much of the rest of the world. The album sold 552,000 copies including physical and digital sales in the United States through the first half of the year, nearly 150,000 more than The Weeknd’s After Hours, which sold 407,000copies. The gap gets even bigger when only measuring physical album sales. Map of the Soul: 7 sold 528,000 physical copies in the U.S., nearly doubling the sales of runner-up Kenny Chesney, whose Here and Now sold 219,000 physical copies. 

BTS Bestselling Album Of 2020
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Those are impressive figures, especially in an era when many pop stars rely heavily on streaming figures to launch their albums to No. 1 in the U.S. But the stateside numbers for Map of the Soul: 7 with comparison to BTS’s own country South Korea, where the album has sold at least 4 million copies, based on a Gaon Music certification from April. Map of the Soul: 7 is the first album in South Korean history to notch 4 million certified sales, making it the bestselling album not just of 2020, but of all time. 

BTS Map of the soul The Journey Records

Tally up these massive sales around the world, and it should come as no surprise that Map of the Soul: 7 is the bestselling worldwide album of 2020. It crossed that threshold immediately upon release in February, as it sold a reported 4.02 million global preorders. Because some of the album’s certifications are several months old, its actual sales are likely much higher than reported. Consequently, it doesn’t seem like BTS will relinquish its stronghold on the global music industry anytime soon.

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