BTS’ “Butter” Becomes Longest Running #1 Song On Billboard Hot 100 This Year Earning Its 9th Week On The Chart!

“Butter” by BTS tops the US Billboard Hot 100 Chart for its 9th week! Becoming the longest charting #1 song of 2021! “Butter” gaveway to “Permission to Dance” when it debuted at #1 but tool reign again at #1 this means that BTS has now topped the Hot 100 Chart for 10 consecutive weeks!

Speaking of breaking records, “Butter” has now broken the 2021 Billboard Hot 100 record set by Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License” which previously had the longest-running No. 1 hit of 2021, when it topped the chart for 8 weeks! “Butter” was released on 21st May breaking several Guinness World Records and streaming records. The music video is close to garnering half a billion views in less than four months!

According to Billboard, “Butter” had 30 million radio airplay audience impressions, 8.1 million U.S streams and 112, 900 downloads sold

.@BTS_twt's "Butter" is officially No. 1 on this week's #Hot100 chart for a ninth week.

It is now the longest-running No. 1 song of 2021 so far, surpassing the eight-week run of @Olivia_Rodrigo's "Drivers License."
— billboard charts (@billboardcharts) August 2, 2021