BTS’s “Butter” Breaks Oricon Record For Most Streams In 1st Week + Tops Weekly Charts

BTS’s “Butter” continues to comb data because it rises to the highest of Oricon’s weekly charts in Japan!

On Might 26, Oricon reported that BTS’s “Butter” had positioned No. 1 on the weekly digital singles chart and weekly streaming chart for the week of Might 17 to 23.

Since its launch on Might 21, “Butter” garnered a complete of 52,821 downloads in a span of three days, inserting the tune on the prime of the weekly digital singles chart. That is BTS’s second time rating No. 1 on the chart following the discharge of “Film Out” in April 2. “Film Out” can even be the title monitor for BTS’s upcoming Japanese compilation album “BTS, The Best,” which will likely be out on June 16.

“Butter” additionally defended its No. 1 spot on Oricon’s every day digital singles chart for the third consecutive day since its launch. Moreover, the tune was performed a complete of 16,607,136 instances over these three days, inserting it on the prime of the weekly streaming chart on its first week of launch. That is the best variety of performs recorded within the first week of a tune’s launch in Oricon historical past.

BTS beforehand topped the weekly streaming chart with “Dynamite” (chart dated September 7, 2020) and “Film Out” (chart dated April 19, 2021), so BTS has set a brand new file of getting three consecutive songs reaching over 10 million streams inside per week. Even when the songs hadn’t been consecutive releases, BTS is the one artist in Oricon historical past to realize over 10 million streams throughout a single week for a minimum of three songs.

Following its launch, “Butter” has been dominating iTunes charts everywhere in the world, whereas its music video has been smashing data left and proper on YouTube. On Spotify, “Butter” racked up a formidable 11,042,335 streams on its first day, reaching the highest variety of first-day streams for any tune in Spotify historical past.