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Entertainment/lion in radio reach.which, helped by BTS remixes, topped the Oct. 17 Sales Score Best “Downtown’s Dead,” which isColumbia also on the Records new set, as reached part of Nos. BTS’ 14 newand 15 album BeThe, song surpasseschart. two tracks that took 50 weeks each to enter the top 10: Week of 2020, on Hot Country Songs and Countrywhich Airplay, respectively, on in the June 2018. “Kin- chart.Easton The Corbin ’s “ACovering Girl Like aYou,” span which of exactly reached three No. 10months in January (Sept. 2018 be- Thanks to Walmart opens at No. 1 Billboard 200 folks” led Country Airplay on Feb. 29, becoming Hunt’s seventh No. 1. It hit fore peaking at No. 6 that February, and Aaron Watson’s “Outta Style,” which Sale song is the 1,114th No. 1 in the Hot 100’s history. 5-Dec. 5-dated charts), BTS scores the fastest accumu- No. 3 on Hot Country Songs. achieved its No. 10 high in December 2017. Streams, sales & airplay: “Life Goes On” drew lation of three Hot 100 No. 1s in over 42 years, since Latest single “Hard to Forget” jumps 17-9 on Hot Country Songs. It’s his “After” is Denning’s second Country Airplay entry. “David Ashley Parker 14.9 million U.S. streams and sold 150,000 in the week (continued) eighth top 10, having corralled 8.2 million U.S. streams (up 96%) and 5,000 in From Powder Springs” traveled to No. 32 in September 2018. ETHAN MICHAEL YOUNG: VIA MARTIN/NHLI GETTY HUNT: IMAGES. IMAGES MILLER/GETTY Page 3 of 36 IN BRIEF the Bee Gees tripled up over two months most in a single year, as four songs entered Peas, which doubled for five weeks in June- and three weeks, with a trio of singles from at No. 1 in both 1995 and 2018. July 2009 with “Boom Boom Pow” and “I the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack: “How First predominantly non-English- Gotta Feeling.” Deep Is Your Love” (three weeks at No. 1, language No. 1 debut: “Life Goes On” is the 24kGoldn’s “Mood,” featuring Iann Dior, beginning Dec. 24, 1977); “Stayin’ Alive” first song sung in a non-English language to drops to No. 2 on the Hot 100 after five non- (four, Feb. 4, 1978); and “Night Fever” (eight, open atop the Hot 100. consecutive weeks at No. 1, with 87.3 million March 18, 1978). The first Hot 100 No. 1 in the Hot 100’s in airplay reach (up 2%), as it leads the Ra- BTS has landed its first three No. 1s more history sung predominantly in Korean, it’s dio Songs chart for a fifth week, 21.9 million quickly than any act since The Beatles, the first No. 1 sung mostly in a language streams (down 2%) and 7,000 sold (down whose first three leaders, “I Want to Hold other than English since Luis Fonsi and 13%). It tops the multi-metric Hot Rock & Your Hand,” “She Loves You” and “Can’t Daddy Yankee’s predominantly Spanish- Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Buy Me Love,” hit No. 1 over a span of just language “Despacito” (featuring Bieber), Songs charts for a 14th week each and Hot two months and three days (Feb. 1-April 4, which reigned for 16 weeks in 2017. Before Rap Songs for a seventh frame (with all 1964). “Despacito,” no such song had topped the three charts using the same methodology as BTS is the second act with three Hot 100 Hot 100 since Los Del Rio’s “Macarena the Hot 100). No. 1s in 2020, following Ariana Grande, (Bayside Boys Mix),” which ruled for 14 Ariana Grande’s “Positions” slips 3-4 on who has led with “Stuck With U” (with weeks in 1996. Before that, Los Lobos’ all- the Hot 100, after it led the Nov.