BTS: "Arirang" becomes first K-pop album to earn platinum from Italy's FIMI

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BTS's fifth full-length album, "Arirang," has been certified platinum by the Federation of the Italian Music Industry (FIMI). Here are the details on the award, the earlier gold certifications and the comeback after four years. ━━━━━━━━━━ 💿 Platinum from Italy for "Arirang" BTS's fifth full-length album, "Arirang," has been certified "platinum" by the Federation of the Italian Music Industry (FIMI). The agency BigHit Music announced this on Wednesday, Nov. 4. The news goes back to a report by the news agency Yonhap. The source gives no exact date for the certification itself. Only the day the agency announced it is known. ━━━━━━━━━━ 🏆 A first for K-pop According to BigHit Music, "Arirang" is the first album by a K-pop act to receive this certification from FIMI. Specifically, it is platinum. According to BigHit Music, "Arirang" reached 50,000 units. Physical albums, downloads and streams are counted together. ━━━━━━━━━━ 📊 Earlier FIMI awards BTS had already received gold from FIMI for several albums. The ones named are "Love Yourself: Answer," "Map of the Soul: Persona" and "Proof." The source says these are several albums, including these three, "among others." It does not give a complete list. ━━━━━━━━━━ 🎤 The comeback after a four-year hiatus "Arirang" has 14 tracks, and the lead single is "Swim." It is the band's first release after a four-year hiatus prompted by the members' mandatory military service. "Arirang" also became the first album by a K-pop act to spend three weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The source does not give the album's release date. For that, it's best to check with BigHit Music or your streaming service. ━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 Sources Yonhap Culture – BTS album 'Arirang' certified 'platinum' in Italy https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20261104005800315 ━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 Have you listened to "Arirang" yet? Which track is your favorite, and how did you experience BTS's return? 📲 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lebeninkorea_en/ 📸 Photos: Marek Piwnicki, Marissa Lewis (Unsplash); Dispatch (CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons), The White House (Public domain, Wikimedia Commons), Carolin von Petzholdt (CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons), LG전자 This file comes from LG Electronics's official Flickr . This tag does not i (CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons)