{"id":4846,"date":"2026-03-30T18:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T18:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4846"},"modified":"2026-03-30T18:02:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T18:02:22","slug":"bts-swim-debuts-at-no-1-on-billboard-hot-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4846","title":{"rendered":"BTS\u2019 \u2018Swim\u2019 Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard Hot\u00a0100"},"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<p>The song marks the reunited superstars&#8217; seventh leader on the list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/bts\/\">BTS<\/a>\u2019 \u201cSwim\u201d makes the splashiest of starts, at No. 1, on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>. The song becomes the superstar South Korean pop group\u2019s seventh career leader and first since 2021; the following year, the septet announced a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/bts-announce-hiatus-1235087020\/\">hiatus<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSwim\u201d is from&nbsp;<em>ARIRANG<\/em>, BTS\u2019 first studio album of new material since 2020. The set&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/bts-arirang-no1-billboard-200-albums-chart-1236209566\/\">blasts in atop<\/a>&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>&nbsp;albums chart, where it\u2019s likewise the group\u2019s seventh No. 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BTS continues to boast the most Hot 100 No. 1s among groups since it first led, with \u201cSavage Love (Laxed \u2013 Siren Beat)\u201d with Jawsh 685 and Jason Derulo, in October 2020. In fact, BTS has the most No. 1s among groups in nearly half a century \u2014 since the Bee Gees banked its nine career chart-toppers in 1971-79. As for the most No. 1s among groups since the chart began in August 1958, the Beatles lead all acts with 20, followed in the category by the Supremes (12), Bee Gees, the Rolling Stones (eight) and BTS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out the full rundown of this week\u2019s Hot 100 top 10 below.<\/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, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts dated April 4, 2026, will update on&nbsp;Billboard.com&nbsp;Tuesday, March 31. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X and Instagram. Plus, for all chart rules and explanations, click&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/billboard-charts-legend\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4846\" data-postid=\"4846\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4846 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The song marks the reunited superstars&#8217; seventh leader on the list. BTS\u2019 \u201cSwim\u201d makes the splashiest of starts, at No. 1, on the&nbsp;Billboard Hot 100. The song becomes the superstar South Korean pop group\u2019s seventh career leader and first since 2021; the following year, the septet announced a&nbsp;hiatus. \u201cSwim\u201d is from&nbsp;ARIRANG, BTS\u2019 first studio album [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4843,"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-4846","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\/2026\/03\/bts-arirang-album-cover-bighit-billboard-1800.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846","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=4846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4848,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846\/revisions\/4848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}