BTS's "Map Of The Soul: Persona" Takes No. 1 On Mid-2019 List Of Top Physical Albums Sales In United States

BTS’s “Map of the Soul: Persona” is the highest-selling physical album in the United States for 2019 so far!

On June 27 local time, Nielsen Music released its Mid-Year Report for 2019, which is based on the tracking period from January 4 to June 20.

BTS’s “Map of the Soul: Persona” takes No. 1 on the list of Top 10 Physical Albums in the United States on the Mid-Year Report, with 312,000 units sold.

The group’s latest mini album also comes in No. 4 on the ranking of Top 10 Albums (Total Sales), with 343,000 in sales. This chart is based on physical and digital sales of the album and not overall equivalent album units (which in addition to album sales, also includes album equivalent songs from downloads and song streaming volume). On the Top 10 Albums ranking based on overall equivalent album units, Ariana Grande’s “Thank U, Next” takes No. 1 with 1,552,800 units, and no Korean artists rank in the Top 10.

BTS also comes in No. 3 on the list of the Top 5 Genre Artists in Pop. This ranking is based on album sales, track equivalent albums, and on-demand audio streaming equivalent albums.

Check out the three rankings below:

Top 10 Physical Albums

1. BTS’s “Map of the Soul: Persona” — 312,000
2. Jonas Brothers’s “Happiness Begins” — 308,000
3. Backstreet Boys’s “Dna” — 273,000
4. Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper’s “A Star Is Born” Soundtrack — 233,000
5. Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody (The Original Soundtrack)” — 194,000
6. Billie Eilish’s “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” — 185,000
7. Vampire Weekend’s “Father of the Bride” — 128,000
8. Khalid’s “Free Spirit” — 113,000
9. Hillsong United’s “People (Live)” — 111,000
10. Hozier’s “Wasteland, Baby!” — 103,000

Top 10 Albums (Total Sales)

1. Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper’s “A Star Is Born” Soundtrack — 404,000
2. Jonas Brothers’s “Happiness Begins” — 374,000
3. Billie Eilish’s “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” — 343,000
4. BTS’s “Map of the Soul: Persona” — 343,000
5. Backstreet Boys’s “Dna” — 299,000
6. Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody (The Original Soundtrack)” — 253,000
7. Ariana Grande’s “Thank U, Next” — 228,000
8. “The Greatest Showman: Original Soundtrack” — 181,000
9. P!nk’s “Hurts 2b Human” — 158,000
10. Lauren Daigle’s “Look Up Child” — 154,000

Top 5 Genre Artists in Pop

1. Ariana Grande — 2,270,000
2. Billie Eilish — 2,021,000
3. BTS — 979,000
4. Taylor Swift — 916,000
5. Ed Sheeran — 807,000

BTS has made a huge rise on the charts even compared to last year, when they appeared on the Top 10 Physical Albums ranking as “Love Yourself: Tear” took No. 9 with sales of 132,000 units.

Congratulations to BTS!

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