BTS Butter continues to dominate Billboard Hot 100 while surpassing 400 million views on YouTube.
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The world phenomena BTS continues to break multiple
records in music history and even become the first Asian group to dominate five
straight weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Previously, BTS made history as they became the first
Asian group to dominate Billboard Hot 100 chart for 4 consecutive week.
Apparently that doesn’t stop the group to continue breaking records and make
history because the boys are definitely not giving it up very soon.
Billboard has officially released the information,
unveiling BTS with their hit single “Butter” topping the Hot 100 chart for the 5th
consecutive week as it is the top-selling song of the week. According to the
report week ending 24th June, the track already has 12.4 million
streams and 128,400 downloads sold which is up 15%, in the United States. Radio
Airplay impressions also were up 6% in the previous week, pushing the number to
27.6 million impressions.
According to Billboard records, “Butter” has already
sold over 100,000 downloads in each of the five weeks since its debut. It is
the first song to link such a streak since Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s hit
song ‘Despacito,’ featuring Justin Bieber, cleared 100,000 in 12 consecutive
weeks in May-August 2017.
BTS’s Butter is also the first song in four years to
sell at least 100,000 downloads in the US in each of its first five weeks.
Meanwhile, ‘Butter’ has hit over 400 million views on
YouTube, as of this writing, the official “Butter” music video is already
trailing 403 million views, making it BTS’s 13th music video to make
such record.