BTS has taken the top spot on Billboard’s main singles chart, the Hot 100, following its No. 1 showing on the Billboard 200 with its fifth album, “ARIRANG.”
Billboard said in a chart preview article on March 30 (local time) that the album’s title track, “SWIM,” rose to No. 1 on the Hot 100, beating Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” and Olivia Dean’s “Man I Need,” among others.
It is BTS’ seventh time at No. 1 on the Hot 100.
The group first topped the chart in 2020 with “Dynamite,” the first K-pop song to reach No. 1. BTS later returned to the top with “Savage Love,” “Life Goes On,” “Butter,” “Permission to Dance” and “My Universe.”
So far, the only Korean artists to reach No. 1 on the Hot 100 are BTS and members Jimin and Jungkook.
In K-pop, another No. 1 came last year when “Golden,” from the original soundtrack of the Netflix animated series “K-pop Demon Hunters,” topped the Hot 100.
* This article has been translated by AI.
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