BTS celebrate Dynamite success on UK's Official Singles Chart: "We feel humbled and honoured"
BTS have celebrated the success of their latest single Dynamite, which rockets to a Number 3 debut on this week's Official UK Singles Chart.
The entry marks the group's strongest Week 1 entry on the chart, being their highest charting song to date and first Top 10 single. Their previous UK singles chart peak was Number 13 with Boy With Luv ft. Halsey last April.
Dynamite scored 50,200 chart sales this week, made up of 5.3 million streams and 22,000 downloads.
"We feel humbled and honoured to have earned a new personal best on the UK Official Singles Chart," BTS told OfficialCharts.com. First and foremost, we give all credit to ARMY - without their support and love from Day 1, we wouldn’t have come this far.
"Dynamite was created in the hopes of bringing some vibrant energy that the world needs right now more than ever. If it made one person happier, then that’s more than enough for us."
On the Official Albums Chart, BTS claim two chart-toppers: Map Of The Soul: Persona (2019) and Map Of The Soul: 7 (2020). View BTS' Official UK Chart history in full here.
Dynamite got off to an explosive start on the Official Chart, leading the way on the First Look Top 20 earlier in the week and debuting at Number 1 on the Official Trending Chart.
The song's accompanying music video also smashed records as YouTube's most-viewed video in 24 hours, clocking up 101 million views.
Dynamite - BTS' first entirely English language single - was co-written by British songwriters Dave Stewart and Jessica Agombar. The track's disco-pop vibe is a departure from their usual hip hop-influenced K-pop sound; inspired by the desire to lift their fans' spirits during a difficult year.
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John Hawkins
BTS' biggest success coming with an English language song (in Australia as well as the UK) supports the argument in https://theconversation.com/bts-are-winning-hearts-the-world-over-but-we-are-still-wary-of-language-diversity-130133
that Anglophone audiences are still resistant to foreign language songs.
btsradiouk
It's a huge achievement, we're so proud of the UK Army and their hard work. A number 1 song seems to be a possibility now. Thank you as well for all the positive comments that I've read here.
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le Vistoria
as a 29 years old Army, i'm so happy to be an army because something is always different about BTS than others...
Micaela Loto
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Euphoria Jeon
Congrats Bangtan!!!
Such a positive and happy message.
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Stella
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/83c83f2f72df04e32169222c29e0a244695c41fac0fb5c2c087417c6127294ac.jpg Proud of ARMY and BTS for making Dynamite reach #3 ☺️💜✨ FIGHTING
L'ceci_Arg
Congrats BTS and UK ARMYS
crunch2k
Congrats to BTS!!! Number 3 is insane and the fact that they even had a chance at being number 1 is already crazy
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K_22
Se lo merecen han trabajado arduamente por el.
Piran
Oh wow, a Top 3 debut! :O
That's truly incredible! Huge congratulations to BTS & all UK Armies.
I'm sure they'll get their #1 single here one day!
Rob Parkinson
Wow yeah I wasn't expecting them to hold.out in the top 3 but they did, great achievement for them.
Piran
It really opens a lot of doors for K-Pop in the UK, honestly! I think we'll be seeing more Korean groups crossing over before too long. :)
Rob Parkinson
Yes I think you may be right Piran!
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galaxy
i honestly dont think so, i think BTS is an exception really
Piran
We'll see! I think BLACKPINK will have a Top 10 hit before long though.
Piran
I hope I am, haha! :D
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galaxy
i just got a report that says BTS got 22k sales for dynamite first week, the biggest since ariana's no tears left to cry and impressive since the market dropped 50% since then, blackpink dont really have that many fans here so speaking with number that wont happen
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galaxy
i mean i monitor new releases weekly etc and kpop groups arent doing what needs to be done for a big change, except BTS that is, their fans are the most dedicated and their dedication really scares me, it's impressive thou ,something to study at this point
Piran
For an international act, right? Because we've had two charity singles in 2020 that have debuted with way higher sales than that!
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galaxy
oh yes of course, none x factor and charity singles, i dont really count those ,
crunch2k
I see BTS and BLACKPINK as the exceptions in terms of mega success but k-pop as a whole has grown so much here in the past couple of years and it'll be interesting to see how others do in the future.
Piran
Yeah, they're the only kind of songs that'll debut at #1 on just downloads alone (unless your name's Ed Sheeran, haha). :)
Piran
I'm just thinking how well other groups do on YouTube & social media! It's not just BTS & BLACKPINK there, so it'll be interesting to see if any more crossover like you said. :)