With ‘Butter,’ BTS Is First International Group to Be Added at Every Monitored Top 40 Station in a Song’s First Week
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variety.comChris Willman Music WriterRemember when BTS was a hard sell at American top 40 radio stations, despite already having an immense and very energized U.S.
fan base? Neither do we. This week, with “Butter,” the K-pop crew became the first international group ever to have a new song added at every reporting Top 40 station in a song’s first week of release.The Mediabase numbers don’t lie: “Butter” is listed as having 180 adds in the format this week.
The number of stations that report their results for the charts: also 180.It’s not as if they were too far off that mark their last time around with an English-language single: “Dynamite” debuted last year with 171 stations.
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