Only a week after “Butter” gave way to BTS’s new hit “Permission to dance” to become the number one on the Billboard Hot 100, this energetic song returned to the top of the chart.
on Monday, billboard Announcing the smash hit of the BTS, “Butter” regained the No. 1 position after falling to No. 7 last week.
This song took a total of eight weeks to top the list. According to the bulletin board, it is comparable to Olivia Rodrigo’s “driver’s license” and became the first song with the longest playing time in 2021.
Last week, “Allow to Dance” ranked first on the top 100 singles chart, replacing “Butter,” which fell to seventh. This time, the two songs have switched places again.
Big Hit Music, the management agency of the group, immediately shared the good news on its Twitter account.
The BTS fan group known as “ARMY” patted each other on the back of the good news.
“BTS and ARMY got the light of superstars #Butter8thNo1OnHot100 #BTS_Butter returned to the top of the list because it replaced #PermissiontoDance and returned to nothing. Ranked number one on BB Hot 100 in week 8! Armies all over the world are again @BTS_twt @ bts_bighit celebrates more achievements,” Twitter user @ResearchBTS wrote.
“butter” According to Billboard data, the album released by Big Hit Music/HYBE/Columbia attracted 30.7 million broadcast viewer impressions (an increase of 2%) and 8.8 million U.S. streamers (a 21% decrease) in the week ending July 22 .
BTS is the fourth act of at least four first songs in Hot 100 after Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber and Drake. Korean septet is also the first group to replace its top song with another top-ranked song.
“Permission to Dance” is BTS’s fifth song ranked number one on the top 100 singles chart after the remix of “Dynamite”, “Life Goes On”, “Butter” and Jason Derulo’s original “Savage Love” . The combination took more than 10 months to complete the 5 top songs in the charts.
Billboard said that despite the increase in broadcast volume, the ranking of “Butter” in radio songs dropped from 20th to 21st. In terms of streaming songs, it fell from 26th to 40th.
At the same time, Billboard stated that “Dancing License” has been downloaded 140,100 times after its release on July 9.
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