BTS' 'Butter' on a Roll, Spends Second Week at No. 1 on Billboard Hot
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Bulletin YOUR DAILY ENTERTAINMENT NEWS UPDATE JUNE 7, 2021 Page 1 of 41 INSIDE BTS’ ‘Butter’ on a Roll, • Taylor Swift’s Spends Second Week at No. 1 ‘Evermore’ Returns to No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart on Billboard Hot 100 • Revealed: BY GARY TRUST Billboard’s 2021 Indie Power Players TS’ “Butter” adds a second week at No. 1 on Sales chart, drops 4-10 on Streaming Songs and rises • Bill Ackman’s UMG the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, a week 39-32 on Radio Songs. Play: A Bad Deal or after it soared in at the summit, becoming First two weeks at No. 1: “Butter” is the 23rd title Just Too Confusing the South Korean superstar group’s fourth to debut at No. 1 on the Hot 100 and post a second for Investors? Bleader on the list. consecutive week on top, among 54 total No. 1 ar- • Apple Music The song again fends off Olivia Rodrigo’s “Good 4 rivals, making for a 43% second-week success rate. Releases Spatial U,” which holds at No. 2 on the Hot 100, two weeks It’s the third among seven such songs this year, after Audio and Lossless after it launched at No. 1. Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License” spent its first eight Streaming The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (of- weeks at No. 1 (encompassing its entire reign) and • How Premier’s ficial audio and official video), radio airplay and sales Polo G’s “Rapstar” ruled in its first two frames (also Josh Deutsch Is data. All charts (dated June 12) will update on Bill- covering its total time on top). Shaking Up Music board.com tomorrow (June 8). For all chart news, you Of BTS’ three No. 1 Hot 100 debuts, two have now Supervision can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both led for multiple weeks from the start (and overall): • An Open Letter to Twitter and Instagram. Its first, “Dynamite,” spent its first two weeks on the Senators From the “Butter,” released May 21 on HYBE/BigHit chart at No. 1 in September 2020 (among three total Music Industry: End Entertainment/Columbia Records, drew 19.1 million weeks in command). “Life Goes On” led in its debut Gun Violence Now U.S. streams, down 41%, and sold 140,200 downloads, frame in December. • How New Zealand’s down 42%, in the week ending June 3, according to Extra ‘Butter’: Sales for “Butter” in its second Six60 Became the MRC Data. It also attracted 22.4 million radio airplay week reflect availability for its original and instrumen- World’s Biggest Live audience impressions, up 24%, in the week ending tal versions released May 21, and a “Hotter” remix Act This Year June 6. released May 28, all discounted to 69 cents in both The track logs a second week atop the Digital Song (continued) Get Your Funky Fun FriYAY! NFT Before They're Gone! # SUCCESS RULE SCAN QR CODE NOW HAVE PRIDE! Written and Produced by: Mantra and Sync Tone Page 3 of 41 IN BRIEF frames. Those versions, plus “Cooler” and claims top Streaming and Sales Gainer hon- “Sweeter” remixes released June 4, also ors on the Hot 100, up 10% to 21.2 million Taylor Swift’s priced at 69 cents, will impact the song on streams and 33% to 10,600 sold in the week next week’s Hot 100, dated June 19 and re- ending June 3. (The Weeknd also won for ‘Evermore’ flecting sales in the June 4-10 tracking week. male artist of the year during the iHeart (Two other versions of “Butter” on sale festivities.) Returns to via BTS’ U.S. webstore, a 7-inch vinyl single, Justin Bieber’s former one-week Hot 100 for $7.98, and a cassette single, for $6.98, will No. 1 “Peaches,” featuring Daniel Caesar No. 1 on Billboard count for chart tabulation only once they and Giveon, keeps at No. 6; Doja Cat’s “Kiss are shipped to consumers, expected to be on Me More,” featuring SZA, ascends 8-7, after 200 Chart June 18.) reaching No. 5; Rodrigo’s “Deja Vu” drops Olivia Rodrigo’s “Good 4 U” keeps at No. to No. 8 from its No. 3 high; and Masked BY KEITH CAULFIELD 2 on the Hot 100, two weeks after it de- Wolf’s “Astronaut in the Ocean” floats 10-9, buted at No. 1. It notches a third week atop after hitting No. 6, as it leads the multi-met- aylor Swift’s Evermore returns to Streaming Songs (49.5 million, down 21%) ric Hot Rap Songs chart for a third week. No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart and enters Radio Songs at No. 35 with 20.2 Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Lil Nas for a fourth nonconsecutive week million impressions, up 75%, good for the X’s former one-week leader “Montero (Call on top, as the set vaults 74-1 with Hot 100’s top Airplay Gainer award. Me by Your Name)” returns to the region, T202,000 equivalent album units earned Dua Lipa’s “Levitating,” featuring DaBaby, pushing 13-10. It also hits the Radio Songs in the U.S. in the week ending June 3 (up rebounds 4-3 on the Hot 100, after reaching top 10 (11-8; 44.1 million, up 17%), becoming 1,709%), according to MRC Data. Of that No. 2, and “Leave the Door Open” by Silk his second such hit, after “Old Town Road,” sum, album sales comprise 192,000 (up Sonic, the duo of Bruno Mars and Anderson featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, reached No. 2 in 8,307%) — marking the biggest sales week of .Paak, rises 5-4, after two nonconsecutive June 2019 (and ruled the Hot 100 for a re- 2021. It surpasses the previous largest sales weeks at No. 1. The latter adds an eighth cord 19 weeks). week of the year, when Swift’s Fearless (Tay- week atop Radio Songs (91.2 million, up 3%), Again, for all chart news, you can follow lor’s Version) sold 179,000 in its first week while ruling Hot R&B Songs for an 11th @billboard and @billboardcharts on both (chart dated April 24). week and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for a Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated Evermore’s sales surge in the week ending sixth frame; both multi-metric charts use June 12), including the Hot 100 in its en- June 3 was fueled by a number of drivers, the same methodology as the Hot 100. tirety, will refresh on Billboard.com tomor- including modern-era record-breaking vinyl The Weeknd and Ariana Grande’s “Save row (June 8). LP sales (102,000), Swift-signed CDs and Your Tears” climbs 7-5 on the Hot 100, after deep discounting on its digital album. two weeks at No. 1. After the pair performed Meanwhile, with Evermore’s fourth non- it on the 2021 iHeartRadio Music Awards, consecutive week at No. 1, Swift’s cumula- broadcast live on Fox, May 27, the song tive total weeks atop the Billboard 200, AUTHORITATIVE INTELLIGENCE. DELIVERED DIGITALLY. CLICK HERE FOR FREE DELIVERY DIGITAL NEWSLETTERS BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 13, 2020 | PAGE Page 4 5OF of 1941 ON THE CHARTS JIM ASKER [email protected] IN BRIEF SamHunt’s Southside Rules Top Country acrossA alllbu of her ms;No. 1 albums, Brett climbs to 53Y oungon multi-metric ‘Catc consumptionh’-es as measured Fifth with Airplay 40,000 sold in the week ending June weeks. She breaks out of a tie with Garth in equivalent album units. Units comprise 15, 2014. (MRC Data began electronically Brooks (52Lea weeks atder; No. 1) as the Travis artist albumDenning sales, track equivalent Makes albums (TEA) History tracking music sales in 1991, with the com- with the third-most weeks at No. 1. 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