BTS Earns Billboard Hot 100 NUmber-One Debut with 'Dynamite'

 

 

It's happened, BTS just scored their initial No.1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, as their English language single, "Dynamite" rockets atop the record chart putting Cardi B & Megan Thee Stallion's 'WAP' off the summit.   

 The seven-member South Korean act rules the Hot 100 with its first all-English-language single, after previously reaching a No. 4 high with "On" in March. 
BTS earns its first Hot 100 No. 1, and fourth top 10, among 12 visits to the chart. The group previously reached the top 10 with "On" (No. 4, where it debuted, this March); "Boy With Luv," featuring Halsey (No. 8 debut/peak, April 2019); and "Fake Love" (No. 10 debut/peak, June 2018). The act first appeared on the chart dated Oct. 7, 2017, with "DNA."

BTS boasts four career No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 chart and holds the records for the most weeks at No. 1 on the Social 50 chart, adding its 194th week on top this week. 

Cardi B's "WAP," featuring Megan Thee Stallion, dips to No. 2 on the Hot 100 after spending its first two weeks on the chart at No. 1.

Drake's "Laugh Now Cry Later," featuring Lil Durk, slips to No. 3 on the Hot 100 after debuting at No. 2 a week earlier.  

DaBaby's seven-week Hot 100 leader "Rockstar," featuring Roddy Ricch, descends 3-4.

he Weeknd's "Blinding Lights" backpedals 4-5 on the Hot 100, as it spends a record-extending 21st week at No. 1 on Radio Songs (80.2 million, up 2%). It tops the multi-metric Hot R&B Songs chart for a record-furthering 24th week.

Jack Harlow's "Whats Poppin," featuring DaBaby, Tory Lanez and Lil Wayne, retreats 5-6 on the Hot 100, after rising to No. 2; Styles' former one-week leader "Watermelon Sugar" holds at No. 7; and SAINt JHN's "Roses" repeats at No. 8 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 4, as it rules the multi-metric Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart for an 18th week.

Jawsh 685 and Jason Derulo's "Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)" keeps at No. 9 on the Hot 100, after hitting No. 7, and reaches the Radio Songs top 10 (13-10; 46.5 million, up 18%). Jawsh 685 posts his first Radio Songs top 10, while Derulo scores his seventh and first since "Want to Want Me" in 2015.

Rounding out the Hot 100's top 10, Lewis Capaldi's "Before You Go" returns to its highest rank (12-10), first reached two weeks earlier.