BTS’s “Butter” is officially No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart for a fifth straight week. It’s now the longest-running No. 1 debut recorded by a group in the chart’s 63-year history.
The record was previously held by “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing." It was recorded by the American rock band Aerosmith for the soundtrack of the disaster film Armageddon. The song debuted at No. 1 on September 5, 1998 and stayed there for four weeks. It held the record for more than two decades (23 years, to be exact) before “Butter” came along.
This week, “Butter” is at No. 1 with 12.4 million US streams and 128,400 downloads sold in the week ending June 24. Those figures are up by 15% from last week’s. It also did well at radio, attracting 27.6 million airplay audience impressions (up by 6%) in the week ending June 27.
Of the 54 songs that have debuted at No. 1 on the Hot 100, “Butter” is just the 11th to spend its first five weeks at the summit. It also has the distinction of selling over 100,000 in each of those weeks. It’s the first song to do that since “Despacito” (the Spanish-language hit by Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee, and Justin Bieber) cleared 100,000 in 12 straight weeks, from May to August 2017.
Meanwhile, the South Korean supergroup just dropped another new set of concept photos. Check them out below.
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You can stream “Butter” and its remixes on Apple Music, Spotify, and other digital music platforms.
