The 14-track album has drawn strong praise for its ambition and its aggressive first half, alongside more divided responses to its back end.

BTS’s fifth album *Arirang* is also performing strongly on charts. Already holding the record for eight K-pop entries (including solo) on the Billboard Hot 100 No. 1, BTS is drawing attention to whether they will break this record.

BTS is already breaking personal records with their long-awaited comeback! On March 20 at 1 p.m. KST, BTS made their highly-anticipated return with their

BTS released their album, ARIRANG, and lead single, "SWIM," music video, which captures the group's emotional impact, their musical journey, and ushers their new era.

BTS’ “Arirang,” the group’s first studio album in six years, appears to be living up to its commercial promise, based on first-day streaming results on Spotify. The album bowed with a reported 110 million streams on the service globally,

BTS released their fifth full-length album, Arirang, on March 20, with Swim as the title track. It has broken records at Apple Music.

Some works of art reveal themselves more fully once they’re given context, and BTS’s long-awaited fifth full-length album, “Arirang,” appears to be one of them, its significance to the boy band becoming clearer when put into perspective.

The big BTS comeback concert in Seoul, South Korea had a special attendee. Singer Becky G, who had previously worked with j-hope on his 2019 single Chicken Noodle Soup, was in the audience cheering on the K-pop boy band.