{"id":248,"date":"2020-08-31T23:23:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T22:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguitar.rocks\/?p=248"},"modified":"2020-08-31T23:23:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T22:23:29","slug":"bts-the-first-korean-band-to-top-the-billboard-hot-100-music-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"BTS the first Korean band to top the Billboard Hot 100 &#8211; Music News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.music-news.com\/images\/news\/BTS.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>The South Korean boy band &#8211; comprised of RM, SUGA, Jin, J-Hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook &#8211; have made history yet again with their latest single, \u2018Dynamite\u2019, as it debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on Monday (31.08.20).<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Dynamite\u2019 makes BTS the first Korean artists, and only the second Asian artist, to ever top the popular US chart.<br \/>The song beat Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion\u2019s collaborative hit \u2018WAP\u2019 to the top spot, and comes as their highest charting single to date, after their song \u2018ON\u2019 reached number four in March.<\/p>\n<p>And if topping the chart wasn\u2019t enough, it was also revealed that BTS\u2019 single managed to sell a whopping 265,000 downloads in the US in its first week, making it the biggest digital sales week for any artist in the past three years.<\/p>\n<p>A tweet from the Billboard Charts account read: \u201cWith 265,000 downloads sold (among its overall first-week total of 300,000, which includes its vinyl and cassette physical versions), @BTS_twt&#8217;s \u2018Dynamite\u2019 debuts with the biggest digital sales week since @taylorswift13&#8217;s \u2018Look What You Made Me Do\u2019 in September 2017 (353,000). (sic)\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The latest chart success comes as \u2018Dynamite\u2019 has broken a string of records for BTS since its release earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The song became the band\u2019s highest charting single in the UK on Friday (28.08.20) when it debuted at number three &#8211; a whole 10 places higher than their previous best, which they bagged when \u2018Boy with Luv\u2019 reached number 13 last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Dynamite\u2019 also smashed the record for the most viewed music video in the first 24 hours of its release, after people watched the clip 101 million times.<\/p>\n<p>And the single even gave BTS the title of the biggest Spotify global debut of 2020, when it garnered 7.779 million streams in its first 24 hours, as well as breaking multiple iTunes records, becoming the fastest song to ever reach number one in 100 countries, with a time of just eight hours, and making BTS the only artist to ever have five songs achieve 100 number ones.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.music-news.com\/news\/UK\/134110\/BTS-the-first-Korean-band-to-top-the-Billboard-Hot-100\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South Korean boy band &#8211; comprised of RM, SUGA, Jin, J-Hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook &#8211; have made history yet again with their latest single, \u2018Dynamite\u2019, as it debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on Monday (31.08.20). \u2018Dynamite\u2019 makes BTS the first Korean artists, and only the second Asian artist, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[39,67,68,10,79,17,26,18,35,212,58,55,749,48,29,72,43,419,747,82,93,92,46,20,74,83,13,63,78,88,89,38,66,71,59,87,80,14,30,21,253,11,748,37,25,34,70,40,86,52,41,12,45,85,62,103,8,9,32,91,44,7,56,31,42,16,47,64,54,73,24,77,28,22,84,50,15,27,90,69,51,23,57,61,60,53,81,65,49,36,33,19,75,76],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-nsync","tag-67","tag-albums","tag-alternative","tag-angst","tag-artists","tag-ash","tag-audio","tag-backstreet-boys","tag-band","tag-beatles","tag-beck","tag-billboard","tag-blink-182","tag-blur","tag-books","tag-britney-spears","tag-bts","tag-bts-the-first-korean-band-to-top-the-billboard-hot-100-music","tag-buy-tickets","tag-cd","tag-cds","tag-christina-aguilera","tag-classic","tag-competitions","tag-concerts","tag-dance","tag-david-bowie","tag-e-cards","tag-e-mail","tag-email","tag-eminem","tag-fifty","tag-films","tag-foo-fighters","tag-free","tag-gigs","tag-hardcore","tag-hendrix","tag-hip-hop","tag-hot","tag-indie","tag-korean","tag-korn","tag-lennon","tag-limp-bizkit","tag-live","tag-madonna","tag-magazine","tag-manics","tag-marilyn-manson","tag-metal","tag-metallica","tag-microsoft-media-player","tag-moby","tag-music","tag-music-news","tag-music-news-reviews","tag-muzik","tag-my","tag-nelly","tag-news","tag-nirvana","tag-oasis","tag-pearl-jam","tag-pop","tag-prince","tag-prodigy","tag-pulp","tag-quotes","tag-rb","tag-radio","tag-radiohead","tag-rap","tag-real-audio","tag-rem","tag-rock","tag-sex-pistols","tag-shop","tag-singles","tag-smashing-pumpkins","tag-soul","tag-stereophonics","tag-stone-roses","tag-suede","tag-supergrass","tag-tickets","tag-top","tag-travis","tag-u2","tag-underworld","tag-video","tag-webcasts","tag-webchats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}