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

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,

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 seven-member group is back with their first album in nearly four years, ‘Arirang,’ a hip-hop heavy, Korean folk-infused experimental exploration of how the biggest group in the world can move forward.

Meanwhile, "Arirang" broke Apple Music's record for the "biggest K-pop album" based on worldwide first-day streams. Amazon Music also announced that "Arirang" recorded the biggest first-day global streaming numbers for a K-pop album. BTS made their monumental return on Saturday evening with a grand performance at Seoul's Gwanghwamun Square.

The major BTS reunion concert in Seoul, South Korea featured a notable guest. Singer Becky G, who collaborated with j-hope on his 2019 track Chicken Noodle Soup, was present in the crowd supporting the K-pop group.

From bold energy to beautiful reflections, BTS crafts a layered sonic experience with global pop and personal storytelling.