BTS makes third debut atop Billboard Hot 100

SEOUL: K-pop supergroup BTS has achieved another historic milestone, landing at No. 1 on the Billboard's main singles chart with its latest single, "Butter", Yonhap news agency reported.

"BTS' "Butter" bounds in at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart," Billboard said Tuesday (US time), citing figures from MRC Data showing how the song drew 32.2 million streams and sold 242,800 downloads in the week ending May 27.

These figures put the new single fourth on the Streaming Songs chart and No. 1 on the Digital Song Sales Chart, Billboard added.

"Butter" drew 18.1 million radio airplay audience impressions in the week ending May 30, ranking No. 39 on the Radio Songs chart, which is 10 notches higher than the group's 2020 hit "Dynamite."

It marks the group's third No. 1 debut on one of the pop music industry's most influential music charts.

In 2020, the septet made history by becoming the first Korean act to debut at No. 1 on the Hot 100 with its first English-language single, "Dynamite," which also earned the group its first Grammy nomination.

Later in the year, the group's song "Life Goes On" that was the main track for their album "BE," became the first song predominantly sung in Korean to debut at the top spot on the main singles chart.

-- BERNAMA