Who's in ? Who's out ? This week's Billboard Charts are here !

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What's new? BTS has achieved its first four #Hot100 No. 1s ("Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)" by Jawsh 685 x Jason Derulo, "Dynamite", "Life Goes On" and "Butter") over a span of exactly nine months, from September 2020 to June 2021. That's the quickest accumulation of four leaders since Justin Timberlake in 2006-07.
Among groups, BTS achieves the fastest run to four #Hot100 No. 1s since the Jackson 5 in 1970.


Hot 100:

• BTS' "Butter" enters the chart at No. 1!

Billboard 200:

• BTS' "BE" is No. 70 (No. 161 last week)


• BTS' "Map Of The Soul" is No. 76 (No. 123 last week - 66 weeks on the chart)


• BTS' "Love Yourself: Answer" is No. 109 (No. 152 last week - 100 weeks on the chart)


• ENHYPEN's "Border: Carnival" is No. 190 (No. 18 last week)

Global 200 Chart (only the first 100 here):

• BTS' "Butter" enters the chart at No. 1!


• BTS' "Dynamite" is No. 18 (No. 33 last week)


• aespa's "Next Level" is No. 65 (No. 97 last week)


• BTS' "Life Goes On" re-enters the chart at No. 94!


• ITZY's "In The Morning" is No. 80 (No. 63 last week)

Global excl. US Chart (only the first 100 here):

• BTS' "Butter" enters the chart at No. 1!


• "Dynamite" by BTS is No. 9 (No. 15 last week)


• aespa's "Next Level" is No. 34 (No. 54 last week)


• BTS' "Life Goes On" re-enters the chart at No. 63!


• BTS' "Film Out" is No. 74 (No.156 last week)


• ITZY's "In The Morning" is No. 75 (No. 47 last week)

Artist 100 Chart:

• No. 2 BTS (No. 14 last week)

Sources: billboardchart Twitter 1 | 2, Billboard.com 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5, BTS Official Twitter

Comments

[aures.livejournal.com]

so much BTS haha

[broadcities.livejournal.com]

bts dominating the charts! but also good to see some girl groups doing well

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

It's good for the boys but I wish it was with a better song
Also stream #sour (I don't even go there, but seeing the nastyness on twt makes me want to root for that girl)

[dior-chic.livejournal.com]

Not related to Billboard but aespa is doing REALLY well. On melon it’s at #4. Doing way better than I thought. I think people have a soft spot for the familiarity of Fast & Furious since I don’t really see the appeal otherwise. but it’s very intriguing seeing Itzy’s main competition arise, especially since Next Level surpassed MITM.

With YG’s Baby Monsters debuting later on (and maybeeee the next Big Hit girl group) we can see the true 4th gen competition start amongst the big companies

But on the topic of billboard (not kpop though), I’ve been really enjoying Olivia’s SOUR. When Billie took off in stardom I couldn’t really jump the hype bandwagon despite liking some of her songs. Her stuff tends to drag for me, and whispery slow stuff has to have that special something otherwise I’m very bored. Olivia’s still is on the slower side but has more variance to pull me in. but it’s the storytelling really appeals to me.

[marsdiamonds.livejournal.com]

Congrats, BTS!

[chiives.livejournal.com]

i wish i can be happy about bts but tbh the way their fans react to olivia has really soured me off on them. so muuuch nasty racist, sexist shit, lord.
and before anyone can tell me that i shouldn't let fans dictate the way i feel about an artist, idrc because they've had years to actually call them out and they never will, and i feel the same way about ts, so!

[lightframes.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's completely unreasonable for the way you see a group to be partially affected by how the fans act. Because you don't want to be associated with that group of people.

I wish instead of getting defensive, fans would think "how can we make the fandom a safer, more welcoming place for everyone?" We aren't just talking about "my faves are better", people have been harassed and doxxed.

It would be extremely powerful for BTS to set a "code of conduct" for their fans. Other groups would probably do it, too. HYBE could do it but it would probably reach more people if BTS did it themselves. It wouldn't stop everyone but it would at least be a step to discouraging racist and sexist behavior.

[em-cavey.livejournal.com]

I was a huge fan at one point and I’ve cooled off on them a lot in part because of what a toxic, carcinogenic cesspool their fandom became as they got more and more popular and how no one is doing anything about it. It wouldn’t be as much of a problem if not for the fact that current-day BTS’s identity and material leans so heavily on their relationship with army, they can’t avoid the ugliness by association.

Obviously artists/labels don’t and shouldn’t have to answer for everything fans do and no one wants to bite the hands that feed them but their fandom is so huge and vocal that they have a unique level of power and ideally someone would take some responsibility or authority over that instead of just letting them do whatever they want. Y’all created this monster, do something other than throw finger hearts at it while it’s going around stomping on buildings. Like if I wasn’t already pretty distant, the way they treated that poor designer who was getting terrorized by army earlier this year would have really pushed me away.

[chiives.livejournal.com]

I was a fan up until 2017 or so and attended their concert before, by then their fanbase was already turning into an actual septic tank but it was still mostly fun and silly, occasional drama aside. Since they started to break into the US market, the toxicity snowballed and fans began to use bts' disadvantages in the US to defend them against literally everything. Tbh I genuinely don't even care that they're gaming billboard's system lmao, but I do side-eye how they keep whining that OTHER FANDOMS DO THE SAME THING when called out on it, like... y'all need to stop acting like perpetual victims and hypocrites. And idk, joon's rap in butter actually made me cringe because it's like he's lowkey using army as a shield, even if he didn't mean it that way, army definitely will take it that way.

I don't think that artists and labels should answer for fans usually, but army has been harassing and doxxing people who point out bts' issues, hiding and covering up problematic actions, and making up ugly, untrue rumors about artists that they perceive as threats, all for bts' sake. By now, bts should have enough clout that calling their fans out shouldn't affect their bottom line that much, especially if they have as many fans as army say they do. 🙃 I'm probably going to sound really harsh here but imo them acting coy about army considering how much damage they've already caused comes off kind of cowardly, tbh.

[em-cavey.livejournal.com]

I don’t think that’s harsh, and I’ll go even harsher, I think it’s downright craven that no one seems interested in doing anything other than coddling army as long as there’s (even more) money to be made. No, they probably wouldn’t lose too many fandom dollars if they were to call out some bad fan behavior but they’d still lose some and even with the hundreds of millions they’re making, I guess they can’t afford to lose a cent.

I might just be projecting at this point but what makes it worse imo is that they seem willing to respond when it benefits them to do so. Like after the BTS You Quiz episode, some fans were brigading the show’s message boards, saying they ‘disrespected’ Jin by cutting him out of the interview portion. Jin then clarifies that he didn’t like what he said during his interview so he’d asked the PDs not to air it. Which is good, but it’s interesting that they were so quick to respond to a controversy so relatively minor. I’d guess it’s at least in part bc they want to stay on the best possible terms with an entity as powerful as TVN (and CJ). But if it’s individuals with no significant power to their name having their safety threatened or their career damaged, apparently no one gives a shit 🤷🏻♀️ (The way they handled the Kim Rieul situation was a bad call though bc it got them probably the worst domestic press since Jungkook’s Itaewon outing).

Lol I probably sound like an anti but I swear I’m not, if it was just the members, their music, and Run bts in a vacuum I’d still enjoy them a lot, but everything around them is so utterly exasperating and awful at this point and it stings bc I really did love them so much once upon a time

[chiives.livejournal.com]

i agree with all your sentiments, i still actually like the boys, i really do. but everything else... ugh.

frustrated former fan high-five.

[dongsaengkiller.livejournal.com]

BTS stomping all over the charts lol I love it. I’m so happy to see 4th gen groups though!