BTS has most No. 1 on Billboard’s ‘Hot 100’ this decade (2023)

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BTS has also had an impressive run on the Hot 100, having collected six No. 1 hits in just two years. They landed three chart-toppers in 2020 and repeated that same feat in 2021. Now, with Jimin's solo No.

5, the boy band's mega-hit “Dynamite” reached No. 1. The septet's first English-only track became the first song by a South Korean musician to debut at the top of the Hot 100. It also made new records by topping Billboard's Global and Digital Song Sales charts.

K-pop septet BTS can add "Billboard top seller" to their list of achievements thanks to their May 18 release Love Yourself: Tear, which entered the Billboard 200 album chart for May 24 at No. 1. This makes BTS the first K-pop band ever and the first foreign-language album in more than 12 years to accomplish this feat.

Meanwhile, other artists named by Billboard to have bagged the most Hot 100 Number Ones include Drake with five hits, Ariana Grande and Taylor Swift with four each, as well as Justin Bieber and Nicki Minaj with three Number Ones each.

The group charted 26 songs on the Hot 100, all between 2017 and 2022, including 10 top 10s and six No. 1s: “Dynamite” (2020) “Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat),” with Jawsh 685 and Jason Derulo (2020)

7 on the Billboard 200, becoming the highest ever debut for a K-pop act. The album's lead single “DNA” was their first entrance on the Hot 100, but the chart moves don't end there. Their first all-English-language single “Dynamite” became their first to debut at the summit in 2020.

I Need U. After a year of win and releasing their albums back to back, in 2015, BTS was recognised at the international level. The Korean band's song, 'I Need U' from 'The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 1' made its debut on the Heatseekers Albums chart at number 6.

BTS were one of two artists to sell half a million copies of an album in the US. According to Nielsen Music's annual report, only two albums racked up at least 500,000 sales in 2020, and they were Taylor Swift's Folklore and BTS's Map of the Soul: 7. Map of the Soul: 7 sold 674k copies.

1 On Billboard's Hot 100 From “Permission To Dance” For Its 8th Total Week.

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With its 21st week at No. 1 on the Artist 100, BTS extends its record for the most weeks spent on top among duos/groups, and surpasses Adele for the fourth-most weeks at the summit among all acts.

With its thirty-second turn on the tally, “Dynamite” broke its tie with Psy's “Gangnam Style,” which had held its record as the longest-charting tune by a South Korean act for several years.

Cher's career as a recording artist spans seven decades and she is the only artist to have a number-one single on a Billboard chart in each of the past six decades.

Drake had the longest cumulative run at number one in the decade (49 weeks), aided by six number-one singles, with three songs spending over 10 weeks atop the chart: "One Dance", 2018's number-one single "God's Plan" and "In My Feelings". Katy Perry gathered eight number-one singles, spending 26 weeks atop the Hot 100.

[MEDIA] BTS' Jungkook is aptly named as the 'Sexiest Asian Man Alive' and is considered one of the hottest members of the group.

A few sources claim that the group has over 90 million fans worldwide, based on their social media accounts.

Wonder Girls was the first K-pop act to enter the Billboard Hot 100, doing so with "Nobody" in 2009.

Performed by Jungkook, “Euphoria” is unquestionably BTS' best-known solo song.

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While they identify as a K-pop group, they've changed up their style throughout the years, and have always had a strong rap throughline. The strength of their rapping skills has allowed them to be one of the few non-Western artists to land on Billboard's Top Rap Album's chart.

Intense choreography: The BTS moves are known for intense choreography, especially for chart-toppers like Black Swan, On, Dynamite, Boy With Love, Butter, Blood Sweat and Tears, among others. The ability to pull it all off boils down to their compete-against-yourself posture.

1) Map of the Soul: 7

This album has till date sold more than 4.7 million units.

In 2022, the year 2022, Black Pink is ranked as the best K-pop singer in the world, over BTS. The video network Blackpink has more subscribers than BTS' 38.6 million, which has more social media followers than BTS' 51.3 million.

No band can have success without its fans and BTS has some of the most loyal, dedicated fans that the world has EVER seen with 19.4 million followers on Twitter and 23.7 million on Instagram.

With so many BTS fans all across the world, it's no surprise that they have started referring to themselves as the BTS Army. Despite the fact that no official polls by the Army have been conducted globally, the majority of sources indicate that the Philippines has the most army.

"Old Town Road" holds the record for the longest stretch at No. 1 with 19 weeks. It also became the fastest song in history to be certified diamond.

BTS wins three awards at Billboard Music Awards 2022. In 2017, BTS became the first K-pop group to be nominated for and winning a Billboard Award. The band has won an award every year since then. They won the Top Social Artist award for five years in a row since their first nomination in the category in 2017.

Drake Continues To Reign As The Undisputed King Of Billboard's Streaming Songs Chart. Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Canadian rapper and singer Drake has once again broken records on the Billboard charts.

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The Beatles have the most No. 1 hits of all time: 20. Though unclear for how long, the Beatles still reign supreme as the artist with the most No. 1 songs of all time.

According to Guinness World Records, Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" (1942) as performed by Bing Crosby is the best-selling single worldwide, with estimated sales of over 50 million copies.

'Dreamers' by Jungkook becomes the longest-charting solo song by a Korean Soloist on Spotify Global Chart.

'The Astronaut' debuted with the biggest number of sales any K-pop soloist ever had in Billboard's history - 62k. In the USA (44k), it also has the highest sales for any Korean song, and Jin surpassed even his own group - BTS, with the song 'Yet To Come"! He was charting on Billboard Global 200 Excl.

The Beatles have the most No. 1 hits of all time: 20. Though unclear for how long, the Beatles still reign supreme as the artist with the most No. 1 songs of all time.

BTS earned their first Billboard Hot 100 hit with DNA, a track released in 2017. In 2020, three more tracks followed – Dynamite, Savage Love and Life Goes On.

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