BTS’s ‘BTS World’ Soundtrack Hits One Year On The World Albums Chart

As their latest release Map of the Soul: 7 – The Journey rises from outside the top 10 to No. 1 on the World Albums chart, another one of BTS’s projects reaches a special birthday on the tally that few projects can hope to match.

The band’s BTS World compilation dips one spot on this week’s World Albums chart, falling from No. 14 to No. 15. It almost departed the list entirely (as it only features 15 spots), but by holding on yet again, the title has now reached 52 frames somewhere on the roster. It’s not unheard of for a highly successful release to manage to spend a full year on the ranking, but it does remain a notable accomplishment, and it’s one that BTS has managed several times before.

BTS World is now BTS’s seventh release to reach one full year on the World Albums chart, and it definitely won’t be their last. The release comes in behind Love Yourself: Tear, Love Yourself: Answer, Love Yourself: Her, You Never Walk Alone, Map of the Soul: Perona and Face Yourself, which is only a few frames ahead of this latest addition to the one-year club. 

BTS World was released last June as a soundtrack, meant to accompany the South Korean vocal group’s mobile game of the same name. The band mixed up their promotional strategy by dropping four new singles, one each week, throughout the month leading up to the full album’s release. The set spun off a quartet of consecutive chart-toppers on the World Digital Song Sales list, with “Dream Glow” with Charli XCX, “A Brand New Day” with Zara Larsson, “All Night” with Juice WRLD and their solo tune “Heartbeat” all climbing to the peak position on that list.

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Those instant smashes made BTS World one of the band’s most successful releases yet, especially when looking solely at the number of No. 1 hits all of their efforts have produced.

The soundtrack was a commercial success all around the world, though it did fail to reach the top 10 on the Billboard 200 due to a non-traditional release plan. The set did rise to No. 26 on the all-genre tally, becoming another top 40 win for the group. It dropped just a few months after they took over the world with Map of the Soul: Persona, which quickly became the band’s fourth No. 1 on the most important albums chart in the U.S.

BTS World is one of BTS’s 10 No. 1 titles on the World Albums chart. They snag their tenth this time around with the aforementioned Map of the Soul: 7 – The Journey.

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