This last week, with their new album Map of the Soul: 7, BTS made everyone realize that Adele's record might be under threat.

Their sales in South Korea have been unbelievable, topping at 3.1 million units at retail. In Japan, the rolling 7 days add for 300,000 units while half a million copies were sold elsewhere in Asia. (This last number would have been possibly higher if it wasn't for the coronavirus.)

In Europe, arguably their weakest area, they are still huge enough to debut at No. 1 in most markets, securing over 130,000 pure sales.

In the US, as they bank in their fourth No. 1 album in less than 2 years, their outstanding success isn't even breaking news anymore. The 347,000 pure sales of Map of the Soul: 7 remain unreal in this day and age with no concert or merchandise bundle.

Pure sales stand exactly at 4.5 million units for the world. This doesn't even include the 398,000 downloads of the album in China. Due to their low price, they are weighted on par with 0.5 album sales in ChartMasters' CSPC system (1 CSPC = 1 album = 1 music video = 10/3 physical singles = 10/1,5 digital singles = 1500 audio streams = 11,750 video streams).

Track sales stand at 410,000 units, worth 62,000 album units, while streaming points amount for 308,000. The grand total? A whopping 5,069,000 equivalent album sales (CSPC units).

If BTS manage to continue their never ending rise, their next comeback may send the all-time biggest debut record of Adele (6,011,000 CSPC units, 5,775,000 sales) to the history books.