The song begins on No. 30 after its first three days of release.
BTS makes its finest entry to date BillboardPop Songs from Pop Songs radio, as “Dynamite” debuts at no. 30 on the list of 29 August.
The song scores BTS’s highest debut rating on Pop Songs and has the most plays in a first week on the map for a track by the group.
Released at midnight ET on Friday, August 21st (on BigHit Entertainment / Columbia Records), “Dynamite” begins on Pop Songs with 2,301 plays in the first three days. It comes above the South Korean septet ‘Boy With Luv’, featuring Halsey, who started at No. 35 with 1,230 plays in her first chart frame in April 2019.
The Pop Songs chart measures the total weekly plays, as tabled by Nielsen Music / MRC Data, under its reporting panel of more than 160 mainstream top 40 stations.
Here is an overview of the history of BTS Billboard‘s Pop Songs chart, dating to the act’s first appearance in December 2017.
Debut plays total / Debut Pos. / Song / Peak Pos. / Peak year
1.116 / No .. 37 / “MIC Drop” (feat. Desiigner) / No. 25/2018
912 / Nr. 38 / “Fake Love” / No .. 34/2018
998 / Nr. 39 / “Waste It on Me” (Steve Aoki feat. BTS) / Nr. 38/2018
1.230 / No .. 35 / “Boy With Luv” (feat. Halsey) / No. 22/2019
1.130 / No. 39 / “Make it right” (feat. Lauv) / Nr. 24/2019
2.301 / No. 30 / “Dynamite” / No. 30 (to date) / 2020
(All titles above debuted on Pop Songs after recording plays in weeks prior to their chart entries, except for “Boy With Luv” and “Dynamite,” which each debuted on the chart thanks to plays in their first three days of availability.)
All charts dated August 29th will update tomorrow (August 25th) on Billboard.com.
“Dynamite” is expected to debut on the all-genre airplay, sales and streaming-based Billboard Hot 100 card dated September 5, after its first full sequel for all metrics. Highlights of the Sept. 5-date Hot 100 will be announced Monday, September. BTS has reached a number 4 height on the Hot 100, set on the debut of “On” in March.
