BTS’s ‘Love Yourself: Answer’ Hits Two Full Years On The World Albums Chart

BTS officially kicked off the next phase of their time as global superstars just a few days ago with the release of their new single “Dynamite,” which is already shaping up to be one of the biggest hits of 2020. That track appears to serve as the first taste of their forthcoming album, which should arrive before the end of the year. 

While fans are busy streaming and buying that tune (every version of it, apparently), they continue to listen to and purchase older titles from the South Korean band, and now one of their most successful releases reaches a special milestone on a Billboard chart they have gotten to know extremely well throughout the years.

On this week’s World Albums chart, BTS’s Love Yourself: Answer dips from No. 4 to No. 5, finding space inside the top five yet again. This frame is important, as that title has now spent 104 weeks, or exactly two years, on the list. The set isn’t the first to manage that feat, but it is one of only a very small number to make it to that mark. 

Just two weeks ago, another BTS album reached the same milestone, becoming their first to do so. Love Yourself: Tear marked 104 frames spent on the tally earlier in August, and it is still charting. That title is now down at No. 10, falling two spots from where it ranked last time around.

BTS’s Love Yourself: Answer was a massive success when it was first released back in the summer of 2018, and while it isn’t always present on the Billboard 200, it rarely leaves the Top Album Sales chart and it has yet to fall from the World Albums list. The set debuted at No. 1 on all three of those tallies, and it routinely places inside the top five on the latter ranking, holding as one of the most successful Korean-language offerings of all time in the U.S.

At the moment, no other BTS full-lengths or EPs are rapidly approaching three-digit week counts on the World Albums roster, though more will make it to that mark in time. Map of the Soul: Persona, their chart-topping release from 2019, has now passed 70 frames on that genre-specific list, and seeing as it is still going strong inside the top 10 (it is currently down at No. 7), it will likely reach at least 100 turns on the list at some point.

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