BTS Fans Send A Beloved Non-Single Back To The Charts — And A New Peak

BTS's Arirang medium trim "Aliens" reaches a caller highest of No. 4 connected Billboard's Digital Song Sales floor plan arsenic fans move it into a abrupt bestseller again. LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - APRIL 03: (L-R) V, Suga, Jin, Jungkook, RM, Jimin and J-Hope of BTS be the 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards astatine MGM Grand Garden Arena connected April 03, 2022 successful Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

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After the Recording Academy decided to present a Best Asian Pop Music Performance class for the 2027 awards, galore predicted that BTS would yet people a trophy aft years of nominations pinch nary wins. However, the boy set precocious announced that it will not beryllium submitting immoderate of its eligible useful for consideration successful protestation of the caller vertical, which immoderate critics — and apparently the chart-topping group itself — consciousness is limiting.

In consequence to BTS’s protest, fans of the boy set – known collectively arsenic ARMY – banded together to acquisition 1 track. “Aliens” returns to aggregate Billboard rankings this week and establishes a caller precocious constituent connected 1 competitory roster acknowledgment to the support of thousands crossed the United States.

BTS’s ‘Aliens’ Reaches a New Sales Peak

“Aliens” returns to the Digital Song Sales chart this week, wherever it breaks backmost successful astatine No. 4. The ranking lists the bestselling individual songs via download storefronts passim the U.S. That position marks a caller highest for “Aliens,” and the tune pushes higher than ever successful only its 2nd quality connected the tally.

BTS Has Five No. 4-Peaking Hits

“Aliens” becomes 1 of 5 tracks by BTS to highest astatine No. 4 connected the Digital Song Sales ranking. The tune joins “MIC Drop” pinch Desiigner, “Filter,” “Telepathy” and “For Youth,” each of which besides climbed each the measurement to 4th spot without surging immoderate higher.

BTS Has Collected 15 No. 1 Smashes

BTS claims 1 of the astir awesome collections of champions successful the history of the Digital Song Sales tally. The set has seen 15 tracks alert each the measurement to No. 1. The 7 singers are presently tied pinch Drake for the third-most leaders of each time. Taylor Swift and Nicki Minaj norm the historical ranking pinch 31 and 17 champions, respectively.

Here are each of BTS’s No. 1 hits connected the Digital Song Sales chart.

• “Bad Decisions” pinch Benny Blanco and Snoop Dogg
• “Butter”
• “Come Over”
• “Dynamite”
• “Fake Love”
• “Film Out”
• “Idol” pinch Nicki Minaj
• “Life Goes On”
• “My Universe” pinch Coldplay
• “Normal”
• “On”
• “Permission to Dance”
• “Swim”
• “Take Two”
• “Yet to Come”

Morgan Wallen Outsells BTS This Week – Twice

While “Aliens” sits only a fewer rungs beneath the Digital Song Sales chart’s throne, it was not a adjacent title for first place. Morgan Wallen scores different leader this clip astir pinch “Been By Now.”

According to Luminate, the state trim starts astatine No. 1 pinch astir 12,500 purchases. “Aliens,” meanwhile, sold astir 3,400 copies during the aforesaid search play – only astir one-third of what Wallen’s latest managed.

BTS Claims Two Top Five Sales Hits This Week

BTS fills 2 spaces wrong the apical 5 connected this week’s Digital Song Sales chart. As “Aliens” reenters astatine No. 4, “Normal” remains moreover higher astatine No. 2.

BTS Returns to Both Global Rankings

“Aliens” besides reappears connected some of Billboard’s worldwide tallies. The opus returns to Nos. 94 and 156 connected the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. and the Billboard Global 200, respectively. The song, released earlier this twelvemonth connected BTS’s comeback group Arirang, antecedently peaked astatine No. 6 connected some rosters.