{"id":2365,"date":"2021-07-26T13:28:27","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T20:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2365"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:44:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:44:34","slug":"bts-butter-returns-to-no-1-on-billboard-hot-100-ties-for-2021s-longest-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2365","title":{"rendered":"BTS&#8217; &#8216;Butter&#8217; Returns to No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100, Ties for 2021&#8217;s Longest Rule"},"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\">The song spends an eighth week on top, matching the reign of Olivia Rodrigo&#8217;s &#8220;Drivers License.&#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; rebounds to 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, from No. 7, adding an eighth week on top and tying for the chart&#8217;s longest command of 2021, first logged by Olivia Rodrigo&#8217;s &#8220;Drivers License&#8221; in January-March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Butter&#8221; replaces BTS&#8217; own &#8220;Permission to Dance,&#8221; which&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/9603058\/bts-permission-to-dance-number-one-hot-100\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">launched at No. 1<\/a>&nbsp;on the Hot 100 a week earlier, succeeding &#8220;Butter,&#8221; which had spent the previous seven weeks at No. 1. &#8220;Permission to Dance&#8221; falls to No. 7.<\/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 July 31) will update on\u00a0Billboard.com\u00a0tomorrow (July 27) 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; released on HYBE\/BigHit Music\/Columbia Records, drew 30.7 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 2%) and 8.8 million U.S. streams (down 21%) in the week ending July 22, according to MRC Data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite its airplay gain, the track drops 20-21 on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/radio-songs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Radio Songs<\/a>. On&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/streaming-songs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Streaming Songs<\/a>, it falls 26-40.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As &#8220;Butter&#8221; soars back to No. 1 on the Hot 100 from No. 7, swapping spots with &#8220;Permission to Dance&#8221; (1-7), sales most sharply tell the story of the stark rank changes. A week after &#8220;Permission to Dance&#8221; opened with 140,100 downloads sold (via its original and instrumental digital versions, each on sale for 69 cents), following its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/k-town\/9598563\/bts-permission-to-dance-stream\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">July 9 release<\/a>, it drops by 39% to 85,000 in the week ending July 22 (encompassing those two digital versions, plus an &#8220;alternate single cover&#8221; option released in the group&#8217;s webstore the last day of the tracking week, also for 69 cents).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, &#8220;Butter&#8221; resurges by 132% to 115,600 sold from 49,800, good for the Hot 100&#8217;s top Sales Gainer award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Butter&#8221; tallies an eighth 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 (2-1), supplanting &#8220;Permission to Dance&#8221; (1-2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As &#8220;Butter&#8221; replaces &#8220;Permission to Dance&#8221; at No. 1 on the Hot 100, a week after &#8220;Permission to Dance&#8221; took over for &#8220;Butter,&#8221; BTS is the first act to displace itself at No. 1 with a new leader and then send the previous No. 1 back to the summit with no other acts holding the top spot in between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Olivia Rodrigo&#8217;s &#8220;Good 4 U&#8221; holds at No. 2 on the Hot 100, nine weeks after it&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/9577508\/olivia-rodrigo-good-4-u-number-one-debut-hot-100\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">premiered at No. 1<\/a>. It keeps at No. 2 on Streaming Songs, after seven weeks on top (24.4 million, down 5%); rises 4-3 on Radio Songs (71.5 million, up 10%); and holds at No. 12 on Digital Song Sales (7,100, down 4%). (See below for more on Rodrigo&#8217;s Hot 100 and airplay chart moves.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dua Lipa&#8217;s &#8220;Levitating,&#8221; featuring DaBaby, rebounds 4-3 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 2, as it logs a fifth week at No. 1 on Radio Songs, up 2% to a new weekly-best 81.4 million audience impressions. It also marks Lipa&#8217;s best Radio Songs command outright in terms of weeks on top, surpassing the four-week reign of her prior leader, &#8220;Don&#8217;t Start Now,&#8221; in March-April 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plus, &#8220;Levitating&#8221; hits No. 1 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/adult-contemporary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Adult Contemporary<\/a>&nbsp;chart, becoming Lipa&#8217;s first leader on the radio ranking. She previously reached the AC top five with &#8220;Don&#8217;t Start Now&#8221; (No. 5, this January) and &#8220;Break My Heart&#8221; (No. 4, April).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Lipa additionally debuts two songs on the latest Hot 100: she&#8217;s featured on Pop Smoke&#8217;s &#8220;Demeanor,&#8221; at No. 86, while her own &#8220;Love Again&#8221; enters at No. 89. The latter is new on the chart, but its origins trace back almost a century: it\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/chart-beat\/9598646\/ed-sheeran-biggest-albums-songs-ask-billboard\/\" target=\"_blank\">borrows the signature section<\/a>\u00a0of Lew Stone &amp; His Monseigneur Band and Al Bowlly&#8217;s &#8220;My Woman,&#8221; which was released in 1933 and co-written by Bing Crosby. White Town&#8217;s &#8220;Your Woman,&#8221; which hit No. 23 on the Hot 100 in 1997, also incorporates the classic instrumental hook.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber&#8217;s &#8220;Stay&#8221; dips to No. 4 on the Hot 100, a week after soaring in at No. 3. Still, it notches a second week atop Streaming Songs (28.6 million, down 6%) and enters Radio Songs at No. 35 (22.1 million, up 71%), as it wins the Hot 100&#8217;s top Airplay Gainer honor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(The Kid LAROI also earns his first No. 1 on a&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&nbsp;radio chart, as prior single &#8220;Without You,&#8221; which hit No. 8 on the Hot 100 in May, takes over atop&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/adult-pop-songs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Adult Pop Airplay<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doja Cat&#8217;s &#8220;Kiss Me More,&#8221; featuring SZA, repeats at No. 5 on the Hot 100, after hitting No. 3; Ed Sheeran&#8217;s &#8220;Bad Habits&#8221; is steady at No. 6, three weeks after it debuted at its No. 5 high; and, below BTS&#8217; &#8220;Permission to Dance,&#8221; Lil Nas X&#8217;s &#8220;Montero (Call Me by Your Name)&#8221; keeps at No. 8, following a week at No. 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Olivia Rodrigo&#8217;s &#8220;Deja Vu&#8221; climbs 10-9 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 3. It concurrently enters the Radio Songs top five (7-5; 61.1 million, up 6%). Meanwhile, Rodrigo rules the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/pop-songs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pop Airplay<\/a>&nbsp;radio-based chart for a second week with &#8220;Good 4 U,&#8221; as &#8220;Deja Vu&#8221; ascends 5-4 and &#8220;Traitor&#8221; debuts at No. 40. Those three songs (with &#8220;Traitor&#8221; not being promoted as an official single) follow her breakthrough smash &#8220;Drivers License,&#8221; which topped Pop Airplay for five weeks in March-April, with all four tracks from her debut album,&nbsp;<em>Sour<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rounding out the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10, The Weeknd and Ariana Grande&#8217;s &#8220;Save Your Tears&#8221; drops 9-10, after two weeks at No. 1.<\/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 July 31), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on\u00a0Billboard.com\u00a0tomorrow (July 27). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2365\" data-postid=\"2365\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2365 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The song spends an eighth week on top, matching the reign of Olivia Rodrigo&#8217;s &#8220;Drivers License.&#8221; BTS&#8216; &#8220;Butter&#8221; rebounds to No. 1 on the&nbsp;Billboard Hot 100&nbsp;songs chart, from No. 7, adding an eighth week on top and tying for the chart&#8217;s longest command of 2021, first logged by Olivia Rodrigo&#8217;s &#8220;Drivers License&#8221; in January-March. &#8220;Butter&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-now","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","no-post-comment","no-post-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/01-bts-butter-screenshot-2021-billboard-1548-1622641454-compressed1.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2742,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions\/2742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}