BTS Collect Another Major Honor In The U.K. With Their Latest Album

Like every other band and solo musician in the world, BTS can’t tour or do much to promote their most recent full-length Map of the Soul: 7 right now, but that doesn’t mean that fans everywhere aren’t consuming the project. In fact, the group’s latest CD continues to rack up healthy sales and streams in many territories, and now it has earned a special honor in one of the largest music markets on the planet.

Map of the Soul: 7 has just been certified silver in the U.K. by the BPI (British Phonographic Industry), making it their latest release to secure the prize.

Albums are certified by the BPI when they have hit certain sales thresholds, combining pure purchases and streaming equivalents. A silver award means the title has shifted 60,000 equivalent units. When the effort reaches 100,000 equivalents, it goes gold, and 300,000 is enough for an album to be named platinum.

Map of the Soul: 7 was released back in mid-February, so the fact that it has already moved at least 60,000 equivalent copies is impressive. In fact, only a handful of albums that have dropped in 2020 have been able to reach silver status so far.

BTS’s most recent project was an immediate hit in almost every country in the world, including the U.K., where it wasted no time going straight to No. 1. In doing so, it became the group’s second chart-topper, following the historic success of 2019’s Map of the Soul: Persona. The new set was preceded by the promotional single “Black Swan,” which narrowly missed out on becoming another top 40 hit by just a few rungs. First proper single “On” opened at No. 21, while album cut “Filter” barely broke through, landing at No. 100 for a single turn.

Map of the Soul: 7 is BTS’s third piece of music to be certified in the U.K. this year. Just a few days into 2020, their older release Love Yourself: Tear went silver, and on the same Friday in February when Map of the Soul: 7 was made widely available, their 2019 smash single “Boy with Luv,” which features American pop singer Halsey, also earned a silver certification.