SEOUL, Aug 10 (Yonhap) – “Butter,” the hit by K-pop superband BTS, has taken fourth place on this week’s top Billboard singles chart, falling from first place. was positioned last week.
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Billboard said Monday (US time) on its website that BTS’s “Butter” fell to fourth place after nine weeks at the top of the “Hot 100” chart.
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The US music magazine added that the song topped the “Digital Song Sales” chart for the 10th week, with 79,200 downloads, a 30 percent drop, while it returned to 20th place on the “Radio” chart. Songs “(Radio Songs), with 31.6 million listeners, which was a rise of 4 percent.
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The summer song had topped the top singles chart for nine non-consecutive weeks, becoming the longest-standing song in 2021.
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With “Permission to Dance” and “Butter,” which topped the Hot 100 for one and nine weeks respectively, the septet reigned the competitive music chart for 10 consecutive weeks.
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BTS has topped the Billboard “Hot 100” chart 15 times, including three times with “Dynamite”, once with “Life Goes On” and once with “Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat) “.
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The group, which set records in 10 months and two weeks, is the artist to top the charts five times in the fastest time in three decades since Michael Jackson, according to Billboard. Jackson was ranked 1st. place on the “Hot 100” chart five times in just nine months and two weeks, from 1987 to 1988.
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“Butter,” a summer disco pop song, released in late May, has gone from strength to strength since its release, sweeping online music charts and streaming platforms around the world, including iTunes and Spotify.
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With “Butter”, BTS previously managed to stay at the top of the chart for the longest amount of time for a group song, since the 1995 song “One Sweet Day” by American pop singers Mariah Carey. and Boyz II Men, which topped the list for 16 weeks.
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The septet also became the first Asian artist to remain at No. 1 on Billboard’s top singles chart for more than four consecutive weeks. Previously, the Japanese singer Kyu Sakamoto enjoyed the title, with his song “Sukiyaki”, in 1963.
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Meanwhile, “Permission to Dance,” released on July 9, is the group’s second collaboration with British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran. The subject was included in the physical album of “Butter”, along with the instrumental versions for both songs.
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“Permission to Dance” caused a sensation immediately upon its release, peaking at No. 2 on Spotify and No. 1 on the iTunes Top Songs chart in 92 countries and regions. The song recently debuted at # 16 on the “Top 100” singles chart of the UK Official Charts music chart.
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BTS released an R&B remix of the summer song in July, which the group’s agency Big Hit Music described as a 1990s-style music track. The remake is a gesture of gratitude to fans around the world who helped BTS reach the top spot on Billboard’s main chart with five songs, the agency said.
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