JAKARTA - The album of the South Korean idol group Bangtan Boys (BTS) 'Map of the Soul: 7' became the best-selling physical album in the United States in 2020. This album includes the hits 'On' and 'Boy with Luv'.
Launching Koreatimes on Friday, January 8, sales of the physical album, which was released on February 21, 2020, reached 646 thousand copies in the United States, based on the MRC Data report with Billboard during January 1 - December 31, 2020.
In the same report, BTS's album 'BE' with the hits 'Life Goes On' also ranked fifth on the best-selling physical album chart with sales of 252 thousand copies.
Meanwhile, for the overall list of physical and digital album sales, BTS's 'Map of the Soul: 7' was ranked 2nd best seller with total sales of 674 thousand. The first place is occupied by singer and songwriter Taylor Swift from the United States with 1.27 million.
Separately, BTS's disco-pop song 'Dynamite' also managed to top the charts for top digital song sales with 1.3 million, double The Weeknd's "Blinding Lights" hit with 580,000.
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