BTS holds the second record on the Billboard 200

The boys “Map of the Soul: 7” ranked #1 on Billboard 200. Starting with “Love Yourself: Tear” in June 2018, “Love Yourse...

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The boys “Map of the Soul: 7” ranked #1 on Billboard 200. Starting with “Love Yourself: Tear” in June 2018, “Love Yourself: Answer” in September 2018, “Map of the Soul: Persona” in April 2019, and finally “Map of the Soul: 7”, BTS' record is 4 straight albums on the top of Billboard 200 within 1 year and 9 months. The shortest record for 4 straight albums on Billboard 200 is held by The Beatles, who holds the record with 1 year and 5 months.“Map of the Soul: 7” storms in atop the tally with 422,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 27, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. Of that sum, 347,000 are in album sales. It’s the fourth No. 1 in less than two years for the seven-member South Korean pop group.BTS’ big bow is accompanied by two more debuts in the top 10, from YoungBoy Never Broke Again and Ozzy Osbourne.The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new March 7-dated chart, where Map of the Soul: 7 enters at No. 1, will be posted in full on Billboard's website on March 3.They’ve beaten one Beatles’ record (the three albums on the top of Billboard’s Chart) but that record was set this century - ie 30 years or more after the Beatles split (the Billboard 200 started in 1992.