The debut of “Fake Love” on the chart also marked the highest placement for a K-pop artist on Billboard Hot 100 since “Gangnam Style,” which debuted at #12 on the chart. ![]() Previously, their highest entry was “MIC Drop”, featuring Desiigner, which debuted on the Hot 100 at #28 on 16 December 2017. 10 on the US Hot 100 on 2 June 2018 - making them the first K-pop group to earn a top 10 single on the chart. The lead single “Fake Love” from the 2018 BTS album Love Yourself: Tear, debuted at No. First K-pop group to reach the top 10 spot on the Hot 100 chart Image credit: Billboard Music Awards/Twitter The track held the #1 position on the chart for three weeks, #2 for seven weeks and #10 for thirteen weeks. “Dynamite” spent a total of 32 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart until April 2021. The record was previously held by Psy’s 2012 hit, “Gangnam Style.” The track also broke the Guinness world record for the K-pop track to spend the most weeks on the US Hot 100. Most weeks on Billboard Hot 100 for a K-pop trackīTS’s 2020 single “Dynamite” is the longest-running Hot 100 hit by a Korean act. The only album which recorded higher figures in the two categories in 2022 was Harry’s House by Harry Styles. The other albums by the group that landed on the chart are Love Yourself: Answer (2018), Map of the Soul: Persona (2019), Map of the Soul: 7 (2020) and BE (2020).Īs per Billboard, Proof recorded the best week for an album by a group, in terms of units earned and album sales. This led them to make history as the first South Korean act to top the most competitive albums ranking charts in the US. The band got their first number-one album on the Billboard 200 charts in 2018, with Love Yourself: Tear. BTS earned the title on 25 June 2022 after their latest album Proof debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 list. They are currently the only Korean group to have topped the Billboard 200 list with six different albums. Historic BTS records: Billboard, YouTube, Guinness World Records and more Billboard Only Korean music act to top the Billboard charts with six albums Image credit: bts_bighit/Twitter With a 544-page book titled Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS set to release as a part of their 10th debut anniversary on 9 July 2023, there is no better time to take a dekko at some of the biggest records held by BTS. They also extended their own record of the most Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards won by a music group with their fourth consecutive win in 2023. This nearly doubled their prior record from 2021 when they overtook Coldplay by garnering 16.3 billion streams on the music streaming app. According to the record verifying organisation, BTS became the most-streamed group on Spotify for the second consecutive time, racking up a massive 31.96 billion streams as of 3 March 2023. On 10 March 2023, Guinness World Records updated two existing record titles for BTS after they extended their dominance on Spotify and at the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards. This is especially true with their latest accomplishment where the “Butter” hitmakers broke multiple of their own Guinness world records. So much so that the South Korean boy band has managed to break records with almost every new album, song, video, world tour and brand endorsement project. Mr Simpson’s record will appear in the 65th edition of Guinness World Records 2020.Ten years into their career, BTS are still creating history left and right (no pun intended). ![]() ![]() He is a presenter on Fun Kids, which is a UK digital radio station for children and families. Mr Simpson’s certificate has pride of place in his bathroom and he hopes his record will remain unbeaten. He correctly identified chart-toppers including Blank Space and Shake It Off from just their opening line. “I don’t think I had a conversation with anyone for around a month without getting them to throw in a few Taylor Swift first lines to test me.” “I found the challenge of it fun, but I’m not sure my mates did,” he said. Mr Simpson detailed his gruelling revision process of listening to Taylor on repeat for the month leading up to the attempt. “I’m not the best in the world for being stronger, fitter or smarter than anyone else – I’m a record holder for being slightly obsessed with Taylor Swift, and that will always be hysterical.” Main pic: Dan Simpson being presented with his certificate above during the challenge and Picture: PA
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