BTS Breaks Pre Order Album Record with 3.42 Million in Just One Week

Kapanlagi.com - BTS has announced that they will soon make a comeback with a new album. This time, their album is titled MAP OF THE SOUL: 7. Of course, this news was immediately welcomed with joy by ARMY worldwide.

Like all K-Pop idols, they usually start pre-ordering album sales before the official release date. The same goes for BTS.

The pre-order for the album MAP OF THE SOUL: 7 started on January 9th. At that time, several album sales websites in Korea experienced downtime due to the high number of ARMY making purchases.

1. 3.42 Million in One Week

Finally, the data for the pre-order of this BTS album has been obtained. On Thursday morning (16/1/2020), Big Hit Entertainment agency officially announced that MAP OF THE SOUL: 7 became the BTS album with the highest pre-order value. According to music distributor Dreamus Company as reported by Soompi, MAP OF THE SOUL: 7 has surpassed 3.42 million pre-orders in just one week, counted from January 9th to 15th.

This number has successfully broken the previous record held by BTS. Their album in 2019, MAP OF THE SOUL: PERSONA at that time had a pre-order record of 3 million copies until one day before the release.

2. Best Seller on Amazon

This happy news was immediately celebrated by ARMY. They made '3.42 million' trend on Twitter. MAP OF THE SOUL: 7 also became number one for eight days on Amazon's CD & Vinyl Best Sellers chart.

The MAP OF THE SOUL: 7 album will be released on February 21st. Meanwhile, the MV for the main song will be launched on February 28th.

Who has pre-ordered already? Let's patiently wait for BTS's comeback, ARMY!

(soo/pit)