Update:<\/b> With more data available, Hits Daily Double has narrowed its opening week US sales and consumption projections for the new BTS album.<\/p>\n
The publication now says the group’s “Map Of The Soul: Persona” will sell 175-185K pure US copies this week. With units from track sales and streams included, it may generate 210-225K in total first-week consumption.<\/p>\n
The numbers would represent career bests for BTS. They would also secure the group its third consecutive (and total) #1 album in the United States.
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“Map Of The Soul: Persona” is on track to become BTS’ third #1 album in the United States.<\/p>\n
Based on early data, Hits Daily Double expects the new album to sell 160-190K pure US copies this week. With units from track sales and streams included, it may generate 200-240K in total first-week consumption. Both numbers would be career highs for BTS.<\/p>\n
Given the 5AM ET release time, the projections may be rougher than is usually the case for the early report.<\/p>\n
Still, barring any surprise mid-week developments, the numbers suggest “Persona” is on track to comfortably debut atop the pure sales and consumption charts.<\/p>\n
The album will follow “Love Yourself: Tear” and “Love Yourself: Answer” in ruling the US album charts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Early sales projections are in for the new BTS album.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":127128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[183,1047],"tags":[8321,12358],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n