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BTS Becomes First Foreign Band Since Michael Jackson to Top Oricon Charts

Another milestone for K-Pop sensation BTS!

The South Korean boy band became the first foreign band since Michael Jackson to top Oricon Charts.

The Bangstan Boys have now achieved a new feat by topping the Japanese Music charts Oricon for the first half of 2020.

The band’s latest album Map of the Soul: 7 has become the first foreign album to do so after Michael Jackson’s Thriller in 1984.

Map of the Soul: 7 has sold 429,009 copies in Japan so far to become the best-selling album.

 

Oricon mid-year album chart has been updated with Map of the Soul: 7 at #1 with 429,009 cumulative sales in Japan from the first half of the year, as being reported.

 

Saman Siddiqui

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