BTS’s third Japanese album is smashing it (Picture: BigHit)

BTS continue to dominate Japan’s Oricon music chart with their new album Face Yourself.

After topping the daily charts, Face Yourself wound up on top of Oricon’s weekly album chart, with 282,000 copies sold in the first week for the period 2-8 April.

This is the third time that BTS topped the weekly chart, after the albums Love Yourself: Her, released in September, and Youth in 2016 achieved the same feat.

Face Yourself was released in Japan on 4 April and on its first day, it sold 188,085 copies.


It erased the record set by K-pop girl group KARA in 2011 when their album Super Girl sold 275,000 copies in November 2011.



It also became No. 1 in 49 countries on the iTunes Top Albums chart while the song Don’t Leave Me took the top spot in 35 countries.

In addition, the album debuted at No. 43 on the Billboard 200 with 12,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending 5 April, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, ‘4,000 were in traditional units to help them land at No. 41 on Top Album Sales’, according to Billboard.com.

It also ranked No. 1 on Billboard’s World Albums chart.

Face Yourself has 12 tracks including the Japanese versions of Mic Drop, Blood Sweat & Tears, DNA and Spring Day.

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