BTS top YouTube global and US charts with ARIRANG and Swim release

BTS have secured leading positions on YouTube’s Global and U.S. charts following the release of their comeback album ARIRANG and its lead single Swim.

The group placed 11 songs within the Global Top Songs chart’s top 100, with Swim reaching number one after recording more than 83 million views worldwide.

In the United States, Swim also led the weekly Top Songs chart for the period ending March 31. The track generated more than 6.2 million views, surpassing the next-highest entry, Golden from Netflix’s KPop Demon Hunters, by nearly two million views. BTS achieved five entries on the U.S. chart during the same tracking period.

Alongside new material from ARIRANG, earlier releases also returned to the rankings. The group’s 2020 single Dynamite appeared at number 81 on the Global chart, placing ahead of the newer track Please, which entered at number 90.

The YouTube performance aligns with BTS’s wider chart activity. The group debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 with Swim, marking their seventh chart-topping single.

They also led both the Billboard Global 200 and the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts, securing their eighth number one position on each.

BTS occupied the top nine positions on the Global 200, matching a record previously set by Taylor Swift for the most top 10 entries in a single week and the most consecutive placements from number one.

ARIRANG, their first studio album of new material since 2020, also reached number one on the Billboard 200 chart, becoming the group’s seventh album to do so. The release further topped the Official U.K. Albums Chart and the ARIA Albums Chart.

Spotify reported that ARIRANG set a 2026 record for the most-streamed album in a single day and became the most-streamed K-pop album in the platform’s history.