BTS Album 'Map Of The Soul: 7' Again Reaps Proud Achievements

BTS Album ‘Map Of The Soul: 7’ Again Reaps Proud Achievements – It also confirms that BTS must have sold at least 4 million album copies, which is impressive as it happened right before the release of their long-awaited comeback album ‘Proof’ which will be released on June 10th.

On February 21, 2020, Boyband Bangtan Boys aka BTS released what has become their best-selling album in their career to date, “Map of the Soul: 7”. A very personal album which includes performances from other big stars like Halsey, Troye Sivan and Ed Sheeran as well as won many awards on various music shows and has charted high on many different music charts.

His two lead singles, “Black Swan” and “ON”, were also highly praised and loved by ARMYs. According to charts Gaon, which tends to overestimate album sales due to the fact that it tracks shipments and not actual individual sales, the most recent sales count made by “Map of the Soul: 7” overall is around 4.81 million, which is already be a record in itself.

But now thanks to the Korean music chart Hanteo, this album has reached another record that no other K-Pop artist has ever achieved. Unlike Gaon, Hanteo tends to underestimate their sales figures because they track individual album sales, but only on approved stores and websites. Due to these two data collection techniques, the actual sales amount for any album is likely to be somewhere in between.

That’s why it’s so impressive that “Map of the Soul: 7” has now surpassed 4 million sales according to Hanteo’s data, making it the first K-Pop album to do so. This also confirms that BTS must have sold at least 4 million album copies, which is especially impressive as it comes right before the release of their long-awaited comeback album “PROOF” which will be released on June 10.

Meanwhile “Map of the Soul: 7” was a huge commercial success, reaching number one in over 20 countries and becoming the world’s best-selling album of 2020. BTS became the first Asian group to top the charts in all of the top five music markets in the world. world. In the United States, it was BTS’ fourth consecutive album to debut at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, earning 422,000 album-equivalent units (including 347,000 sales) in its first week. In less than nine days after its release, the album sold over 4.1 million copies for the first time in the history of the Gaon Album Chart, setting a Guinness World Record for the best-selling album in South Korea and being certified quadruple by Korean Music Content. Association (KMCA) and was certified platinum in the United States and Japan, and obtained gold certification in seven other countries.