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On Tuesday, BTS released their music video for "Hooligan." It's the third visual from the band's 'ARIRANG' album.
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The result keeps BTS in the center of current pop coverage, even as older songs from their catalog continue to be compared by chart strength and audience response. "Spring Day" remains one of BTS' most recognized songs.
Last week, a No. 1 debut for BTS's Arirang seemed as inevitable as the tides: The K-pop boy band didn't have much competition beyond country star Luke Combs (whose The Way I Am debuted at No. 2), and the group had already banked six No. 1 albums in its career. So it came as no surprise when Arirang became its seventh.
Led by “Swim,” BTS swarms the Billboard Global 200 and the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts as the song starts as the reunited South Korean septet’s record-extending eight
BTS hasn't missed a beat -- literally -- dropping the choreo-heavy music video for their song "Hooligan" on Tuesday. RM, Jin, SUGA, J-Hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook edgy, all-black fits in the new visual.
BTS's single "Swim" holds as the fifth-highest-rising hit by a K-pop group on Billboard's Pop Airplay chart, where it keeps at No. 16 after launching there last week.
Fans react to BTS’ return to the stage after nearly four years, at the opening night of the K-pop megastars' "ARIRANG" world tour in Goyang, South Korea. (April 9)
Tens of thousands turned up to watch and more than 18 million people live-streamed the one-hour show - a slick teaser of the upcoming BTS world tour, with the group's easy camaraderie on display, almost as if they had not spent much of the last three years apart,