3 hours ago, Faulkner said:

Yeah, I just feel like the charts need to better reflect how people consume music. We’re in an age when data are more ready available. I’m sure the industry loves to incentivize sales. But one big thing is stop counting 50,000 remixes towards one song.

 

Billboard should just ask us to create the new rules/points system.  LOL

Second week at No. 1 for BTS.

 

 

Week No. 3 for BTS’s “Butter” at No. 1. (Tom Breihan from Stereogum later walked back his BTS comments after fans barraged him with criticism.)

 

 

“Butter” is No. 1 for a fourth week.

 

 

BTS is No. 1 for a fifth week. The top 10 feels pretty static.

 

 

A sixth week at No. 1 for “Butter,” a song I’ve yet to hear in the wild. (Its airplay numbers are decent, so it may just be me.) 

Ed Sheeran’s latest enters the top 10 at No. 5.

 

Edited July 6, 20214 yr by Faulkner

7 weeks! I’ve followed the charts since I was little, but part of me is happy that BTS fans have outsmarted the system, which has always been a load of BS. (Better that fans game the charts than the traditional collusion of radio stations and record companies.)

 

BTS just replaced themselves at No. 1!

 

BTS is the 45th artist and the 11th duo/group to reach 5 #1s on the Billboard Hot 100. BTS is also the 13th artist not from the United States and the first artist from a non-English speaking country to reach 5 #1s on the Billboard Hot 100.

The duos/groups with 5 or more #1s on the Billboard Hot 100 as of today: The Beatles (20), The Supremes (12), The Bee Gees (9), The Rolling Stones (8), Wings (6), Hall & Oates (6), The Four Seasons (5), The Eagles (5), KC and the Sunshine Band (5), Boyz II Men (5), BTS (5).

Artists not from the United States with 5 or more #1s on the Billboard Hot 100 as of today: The Beatles (20), Rihanna (14), The Bee Gees (9), Elton John (9), The Rolling Stones (8), George Michael (8), Drake (8), Phil Collins (7), Justin Bieber (7), Wings (6), The Weeknd (6), Olivia Newton-John (5), BTS (5). 

And BTS replace themselves at No. 1 again, with “Butter” soaring back to the top (for its eighth week at No. 1). Officially the summer of BTS for Billboard.

 

The Hot 100 is such a joke, lol. If you surveyed random people on the street, you'd be lucky if two average people have even heard these BTS songs. 

Edited July 26, 20214 yr by BetterForgotten

14 minutes ago, BetterForgotten said:

The Hot 100 is such a joke, lol. If you surveyed random people on the street, you'd be lucky if two average people have even heard these BTS songs. 

The only song of theirs I’ve heard a lot out and about is “Dynamite.” These other songs, nope.

If BTS decided not to release any songs this summer, Olivia’s Good 4 U would be #1 for 10 straight weeks now.  

9th week at No. 1 for “Butter.” The Kanye-produced Lil Nas X/Jack Harlow collaboration debuts at No. 2.

 

A new No. 1.