BTS’ ‘Swim’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard Global Charts

Led by “Swim,” BTS swarms the Billboard Global 200 and the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts because the track begins because the reunited South Korean septet’s record-extending eighth No. 1 on every rating.

“Swim” leads a historic haul from ARIRANG, BTS’ first studio album of latest materials since 2020, which bounds in at No. 1 on the United States-based Billboard 200 albums chart. The group claims the highest 9 spots on the Global 200, tying Taylor Swift for each probably the most prime 10s in a single week and probably the most titles from No. 1 on down, after songs from her The Tortured Poets Department launched at Nos. 1-9 on the May 4, 2024, chart.

BTS does even higher on Global Excl. U.S., turning into the primary act to monopolize your entire prime 10 — and prime 13 — due to ARIRANG songs. Swift scored 9 of the highest 10 when her The Life of a Showgirl made its chart begin (Oct. 18, 2025), whereas Bad Bunny was the one act earlier than this week to carry as many as the highest three concurrently, for 2 weeks this February.

Here’s a recap of BTS’ songs at Nos. 1 by way of 9 on the newest Global 200 and their worldwide streaming and gross sales totals within the week ending March 26, following ARIRANG’s March 20 launch, in line with Luminate:

The next-highest track within the Global 200 prime 10: PinkPantheress’ “Stateside,” with Zara Larsson, per week after the collab hit No. 1.

The prime 9 traces up identically on Global Excl. U.S., adopted by 4 extra ARIRANG songs at Nos. 10-13: “They Don’t Know ‘bout Us,” “One More Night,” “Please” and “Into the Sun,” respectively.

In addition to upping its No. 1 totals, BTS practically doubles its sums to twenty prime 10s on the Global 200 and 21 on Global Excl. U.S., each probably the most amongst teams.

Meanwhile, the very best entry not by BTS on Global Excl. U.S. is Dominic Fike’s “Babydoll” at No. 14, per week after reaching the highest 10 at No. 7.

The Billboard Global 200 and Global Excl. U.S. charts, which started in September 2020, rank songs primarily based on streaming and gross sales exercise culled from greater than 200 territories world wide, as compiled by Luminate. The Global 200 is inclusive of worldwide knowledge and the Global Excl. U.S. chart contains knowledge from territories excluding the United States.

Chart ranks are primarily based on a weighted system incorporating official-only streams on each subscription and ad-supported tiers of audio and video music providers, in addition to obtain gross sales, the latter of which replicate purchases from full-service digital music retailers from world wide, with gross sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) websites excluded from the charts’ calculations.

The charts, dated April 4, 2026, will replace on Billboard.com Tuesday, March 31. For each tallies, the highest 100 titles can be found to all readers on Billboard.com, whereas the entire 200-title rankings are seen on Billboard Pro, Billboard’s subscription-based service. For all chart information, you may observe @billboard and @billboardcharts on each X and Instagram.

Luminate, the impartial knowledge supplier to the Billboard charts, completes a radical overview of all knowledge submissions utilized in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate evaluations and authenticates knowledge. In partnership with Billboard, knowledge deemed suspicious or unverifiable is eliminated, utilizing established standards, earlier than last chart calculations are made and revealed.