[Epoch Times June 22, 2021](Epoch Times reporter Zeng Weixin compiled a report) The US billboard (Billboard) announced on the 21st local time that the popular Korean boy group BTS (BTS) launched on May 21 The English-language digital single “Butter” maintained the No. 1 spot on the latest (June 26) billboard “Hot 100” chart. This is the first place in the “Hot 100” chart for four consecutive weeks since the song airborne the champion of the chart on June 5.
BTS has won three championships in the “Hot 100” list with “Dynamite” in the past, and the remix version of “Savage Love (Laxed–Siren Beat)” with Jason Derulo and “Life Goes On” released in November last year. Won the championship, this time with “Butter” for four consecutive weeks to top the list, which allows them to have four songs on the “Hot 100” chart, and the number of times they have won the championship on the chart has reached nine times.
The results of “Butter” also surpassed the record of “Dynamite” released by BTS in August last year, which won three “Hot 100” championships. Of the 54 songs that have been airborne to the top of the chart, only 13 have won first place for four consecutive weeks (or more). This is also the first achievement achieved by a group since the Aerosmith in 1998, and the first record achieved by a group since entering the 21st century.
The billboard report cited data from MRC (formerly Nielsen Music). As of June 20, “Butter” had 25.8 million listeners in a single week, an increase of 6% from last week (24.6 million).
In addition, ORICON announced today that the Japanese-language album “BTS, THE BEST” released on June 16 by the BTS has airborne the single-week album on June 28 with a record of 782,000 copies sold in the first week. The champion.
The public trust chart shows that 782,000 albums are the highest album sales in the first week of the year. It is also the first week of album release after 7 months since “This is Arashi” on the chart on November 16, 2020. Sold over 500,000 copies. “BTS, THE BEST” also refreshed the best first week sales record (564,000 copies) set by BTS itself in the public trust list with the Japanese album “MAP OF THE SOUL: 7 ～THE JOURNEY～” in July last year.
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