Fans Choose BTS’ ‘ARIRANG’ as This Week’s Favorite New Music

ARIRANG , the new album from BTS , tops this week’s fan-voted music poll. Fans voted in a poll published Friday (March 20) on Billboard , choosing the seven-piece’s return LP as their favorite new release of the week. ARIRANG is the poll leader in a week that also saw new music releases from Niall Horan, Lizzo, Paris Paloma and more.

As the poll came to a close on Sunday, the K-pop superstars finished with an overwhelming 94% of the vote. The album, a collection of 14 tracks via BigHit, was long-awaited by ARMY while the group formation of J-Hope, Jimin, Jin, Jung Kook, RM, Suga and V took a hiatus; the members were fulfilling mandatory military service in South Korea.

BTS last released music in 2022 — the compilation project Proof , which launched at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart — but hadn’t actually released a full-length album of new songs in six years, since the 2020 release of Billboard 200 chart-topper BE . ARIRANG features production from Diplo, Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker, Mike WiLL Made-It and...