Booming return for BTS - K-pop supergroup sets new first-day sales record with 'Arirang'

A customer reacts after purchasing the fifth album “Arirang” by the K-pop group BTS, at the Kyobo Book Centre Gwanghwamun in Jongno-gu, Seoul, on Friday. Photo: Yonhap via The Korea Herald/ANN

SEOUL (Bernama-Yonhap) -- K-pop supergroup BTS has sold nearly 4 million copies of its new album "Arirang" on the first day of release, marking the band’s highest first-day sales to date, its agency said Saturday.

BigHit Music said the band’s fifth studio album recorded 3.98 million sales within 24 hours of its release on Friday, Yonhap News Agency reported.