The game of musical chairs continues between revolving chart-toppers BTS and Cardi B.
Nearly a month ago (as we reported here), the Korean septet unseated Cardi’s Megan Thee Stallion-assisted hit, ‘WAP,’ from the top of charts – a short-lived reign that ended just two weeks later when the GRAMMY winner reclaimed the throne.
Though holding tight to the top spot for the two weeks that followed, this week saw ‘WAP’ sink to #2 thanks to an aggressive promo campaign launched by the ‘Dynamite’ singers.
Delivering explosive showings on the likes of ‘America’s Got Talent,’ NPR’s ‘Tiny Desk Concert,’ and more, BTS filled in the blanks with a number of discounts and alternate versions of their hit – a move that collectively added up to just enough steam to push Cardi and co. from the Hot 100’s summit.
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‘Dynamite’ is among the many gems set to line BTS’ forthcoming album, ‘BE’ (due in stores November 20).
Look below to see the numbers that helped rocket it to this week’s winning spot.
- Streaming: 14 million
- Digital downloads: 153,000
- Radio airplay: 20.8 million
“Helping “Dynamite” in the week ending Sept. 24 were four new remixes released Sept. 18: its “Bedroom,” “Midnight,” “Retro” and “Slow Jam” mixes, which, combined, accounted for 52% of the song’s overall sales in the tracking week. “Poolside” and “Tropical” remixes of “Dynamite” were released Aug. 28, joining the original and instrumental versions and EDM and acoustic remixes released Aug. 21, with all versions sale-priced to 69 cents during their first five weeks.”
The numbers above make “Dynamite” the first song in history to peak at #1 on both the newly introduced Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global 200 Excl. US singles charts.
Look below to see the entire top 10.
Check back Tuesday (September 29) for TGJ’s weekly chart rundown, ‘Chart Check.’
The longevity ☺️ Old lady Nicki could never. Where is nicki by the way? Should we do a wellness check? She hasn’t been on social media since August 1. Maybe she’s regretting her life choices and embarrassed that even 6ixty9ine cents clowned her? 🤣
You’re giving her enough attention. Drop the obsession.
Jeez still obsessed…you do care about her if you’re doing this much
Not country singer gabby barrett getting a solo top 10 hit before f*******
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I’m embarrassed for normani.
Yea and it only took them about 500000 remixes to do it. Congratulations lol.
The Asian people are supporting I see. Cardi and Megan are making history though!
Yeahhh Ima need for these chinese culture vultures to leave the hip hop genre alone…
It’s Korean… Not all Asians are Chinese. Clearly you need to do some research.
Justin and Scooter really thought “Holy” would debut at #1 LOL. They want JB to have his own “Thank U, Next” comeback, but it’s NOT going to happen. JB peaked with purpose. The clownery!
JB is already an icon. Deal with it, bitter hater.
An icon? LOL. He’s a former heartthrob. Icon is pushing it. Icon’s don’t start flopping as hard as he did with Changes, this early into their career. He peaked.
He will be back, wait and see.
Jasmine the 👑 troll I see you know go by Shayla DRAGqueen
The two most horrendous songs to be released in the last ten years. Although the rest of the top ten isn’t much better.
Except The Weeknd, of course! The only one on that chart making decent MUSIC. The rest is nothing but noise.
PayPal ran out abit
Chile 🤣🤣🤣
If that was case wap would’ve fell 80 places second week like Nicki singles 😂😂😂😂
A million remixes and streaming farms… Wap will be back to number 1 next week.
I never comment on Tart Juice but yall are SO bitter on here and it shows. Yall want everyone to be happy for WAP’s success but cant be happy for other songs when it competes and does just as good. Mad cuz a less controversal song still did well? Get that hate out of your heart and onto a job app, pressed bums.