{"id":2316,"date":"2021-06-21T10:42:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T17:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2316"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:44:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:44:34","slug":"bts-butter-tops-hot-100-for-fourth-week-becoming-groups-longest-leading-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2316","title":{"rendered":"BTS&#8217; &#8216;Butter&#8217; Tops Hot 100 for Fourth Week, Becoming Group&#8217;s Longest Leading No. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<script>\r\nif( document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ) ) document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ).insertAdjacentHTML( \"beforebegin\", \"<link rel='stylesheet' href='https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/wp-content\/themes\/themify-music\/themify\/themify-builder\/css\/themify-builder-style.css' type='text\/css' \/>\" );\r\n<\/script>\r\n\t\t\t\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;Butter&#8221; passes the three-week reign of &#8220;Dynamite.&#8221;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/bts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BTS<\/a>&#8216; &#8220;Butter&#8221; adds a fourth week at No. 1 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>&nbsp;songs chart, becoming the South Korean superstar group&#8217;s longest leading topper on the tally. It bests the three-week rule of &#8220;Dynamite,&#8221; its first No. 1, in September-October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated June 26) will update on&nbsp;Billboard.com&nbsp;Tuesday (June 22). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WMweEpGlu_U\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Butter,&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/bts\/9575932\/bts-butter-single\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">released May 21<\/a>&nbsp;on HYBE\/BigHit Entertainment\/Columbia Records, drew 12.5 million U.S. streams, down 19%, and sold 111,400 downloads, down 20%, in the week ending June 17, according to MRC Data. It also attracted 25.8 million radio airplay audience impressions, up 6%, in the week ending June 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated June 26) will update on\u00a0Billboard.com\u00a0Tuesday (June 22). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Butter,&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/bts\/9575932\/bts-butter-single\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">released May 21<\/a>&nbsp;on HYBE\/BigHit Entertainment\/Columbia Records, drew 12.5 million U.S. streams, down 19%, and sold 111,400 downloads, down 20%, in the week ending June 17, according to MRC Data. It also attracted 25.8 million radio airplay audience impressions, up 6%, in the week ending June 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The track posts a fourth week atop the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/digital-song-sales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Digital Song Sales<\/a>&nbsp;chart, drops 19-24 on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/streaming-songs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Streaming Songs<\/a>&nbsp;and rises 28-25 on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/radio-songs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Radio Songs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As &#8220;Butter&#8221; now sports BTS&#8217; longest Hot 100 command, here&#8217;s a recap of the act&#8217;s four leaders:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Title, weeks at No. 1, date reached No. 1<br>&#8220;Butter,&#8221; four, June 5, 2021<br>&#8220;Dynamite,&#8221; three, beginning Sept. 5, 2020<br>&#8220;Savage Love (Laxed \u2013 Siren Beat),&#8221; with Jawsh 685 and Jason Derulo, one, Oct. 17, 2020<br>&#8220;Life Goes On,&#8221; one, Dec. 5, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, &#8220;Butter&#8221; has spent its first four weeks on the Hot 100 at No. 1, dating to its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/9580596\/bts-butter-number-one-debut-hot-100\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">debut at the summit<\/a>. Of the 54 titles that have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/photos\/426225\/billboard-hot-100-number-1-song-debuts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">launched at No. 1<\/a>, &#8220;Butter&#8221; is just the 13th to spend at least its first four weeks on the chart in the top spot, or a feat that just under a quarter of all No. 1s debuts have achieved. It&#8217;s the first song to earn the honor since Olivia Rodrigo&#8217;s &#8220;Drivers License&#8221; logged its first eight frames on the Hot 100 in the pole position beginning in January, as well as the first by a group since 1998, when Aerosmith&#8217;s &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Want to Miss a Thing&#8221; led in its first four weeks (encompassing its entire command) that September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Sales for &#8220;Butter&#8221; in its fourth week reflect availability for its original and instrumental versions released May 21; a &#8220;Hotter&#8221; remix released May 28; and &#8220;Cooler&#8221; and &#8220;Sweeter&#8221; remixes released June 4, all discounted to 69 cents in all four frames. Two other versions of &#8220;Butter&#8221; on sale via BTS&#8217; U.S. webstore, a 7-inch vinyl single, for $7.98, and a cassette single, for $6.98, are scheduled to count for next week&#8217;s charts, dated July 3, after they were shipped to consumers June 18.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Olivia Rodrigo&#8217;s &#8220;Good 4 U&#8221; keeps at No. 2 on the Hot 100, four weeks after it\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/9577508\/olivia-rodrigo-good-4-u-number-one-debut-hot-100\/\" target=\"_blank\">debuted at No. 1<\/a>. It posts a fifth week atop Streaming Songs (36 million, down 15%); slips 5-6 on Digital Song Sales (9,600, down 13%); and jumps 21-14 on Radio Songs with 37.5 million impressions, up 36%, as it wins the Hot 100&#8217;s top Airplay Gainer award for a third week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dua Lipa&#8217;s &#8220;Levitating,&#8221; featuring DaBaby, holds at No. 3 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 2, as it hits a new No. 2 high on Radio Songs, up 4% to 81.1 million in audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notably, for a third consecutive week, &#8220;Butter,&#8221; &#8220;Good 4 U&#8221; and &#8220;Levitating&#8221; ranks at Nos. 1, 2 and 3, respectively, on the Hot 100. Songs had last locked in the chart&#8217;s top three positions for at least three straight weeks when Roddy Ricch&#8217;s &#8220;The Box,&#8221; Future&#8217;s &#8220;Life Is Good,&#8221; featuring Drake, and Post Malone&#8217;s &#8220;Circles&#8221; did so for four frames in a row in February-March 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doja Cat&#8217;s &#8220;Kiss Me More,&#8221; featuring SZA, hits a new Hot 100 high, jumping 7-4, after previously reaching No. 5. Leading its gains, the track pushes 6-4 on Radio Songs, up 16% to 60.8 million in audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Justin Bieber&#8217;s former one-week No. 1 &#8220;Peaches,&#8221; featuring Daniel Caesar and Giveon, dips 4-5 on the Hot 100. It adds a fourth week atop both&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/r-b-hip-hop-songs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hot R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Songs<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/r-and-b-songs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hot R&amp;B Songs<\/a>, with both multi-metric charts employing the same methodology as the Hot 100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Leave the Door Open&#8221; by Silk Sonic, the duo of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, descends 5-6 on the Hot 100, after two nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1. It notches a 10th week atop Radio Songs (82.3 million, down 7%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Weeknd and Ariana Grande&#8217;s &#8220;Save Your Tears&#8221; retreats 6-7 on the Hot 100, after two weeks at No. 1; Masked Wolf&#8217;s &#8220;Astronaut in the Ocean&#8221; holds at No. 8, after hitting No. 6, as it leads the multi-metric&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/rap-song\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hot Rap Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart for a fifth week; Lil Nas X&#8217;s former one-week Hot 100 leader &#8220;Montero (Call Me by Your Name)&#8221; returns to the top 10, pushing 11-9; and Olivia Rodrigo&#8217;s &#8220;Deja Vu&#8221; drops 9-10, after reaching No. 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated June 26), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on\u00a0Billboard.com\u00a0Tuesday (June 22).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2316\" data-postid=\"2316\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2316 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Butter&#8221; passes the three-week reign of &#8220;Dynamite.&#8221; BTS&#8216; &#8220;Butter&#8221; adds a fourth week at No. 1 on the&nbsp;Billboard Hot 100&nbsp;songs chart, becoming the South Korean superstar group&#8217;s longest leading topper on the tally. 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