I CAN'T BELIVE ITS BEEN A WHOLE YEAR SINCE BUTTER WAS RELEASED.
WHERE HAS TIME GONEEEEEE
ANOTHER GLOBAL HIT IS SUCCESSFULLY UNDER BTS's BELT
Watching a animated butter melt for an hour was quite an experience (especially with us clowns thinking it might be McDonalds related )
Compiling a list of its first year achievements was tough lol but here I go (though I probably missed some records here and there
So lets get it and see what exactly this song achieved in JUST its FIRST YEAR OF RELEASE
Lets start with YouTube:
- Most viewed MV & video on YT in the first 24 hours (108.2M),
- Most simultaneous viewers for an MV on YT
- Most viewers for the premiere of a video on YT
- Fastest video to 100M and 200M views on YT
- 12th MOST LIKED MV of all time on Youtube
- Most liked 2021 MV on YT (21M likes)
- Biggest weekly debut for a song in history for any artist
The MV now sits at over 750M Views and over 22M likes
Now onto Spotify :
- Debuted at #2 on GLOBAL SPOTIFY with 11.04M streams
- Biggest song debut on Spotify global of all time (at the time)
- Biggest Spotify group debut of all time
- Debuted with the biggest counter debut in Spotify history (at the time)
- Butter earned the biggest debut week for any song in history on Spotify's counter with 99.3M streams
- Biggest debut in history for a group and Korean act on Spotify's weekly chart with 58.1M
- 2nd Longest charting song by a Korean act on Global Spotify (only behind Dynamite and still charting
- Fastest song in history to surpass 100M streams on Spotify (doing so in 7-8 days)
- Is currently sitting at 876M streams in a year and is the second most streamed song by a korean act (only behind Dynamite)
Music Shows
- Has 13 wins
Korean Charts
- Joined Let it Go and Dynamite as the only English songs to achieve a PAK (now stay is part of that list)
- Surpassed 500k ULs on Melon
- Achieved over 257 PAKs
- Ranked at #7 on Gaon’s Year end chart for 2021
- Currently has over 700M digital points in a year
APPLE MUSIC
- Peaked at #2, the highest for a Korean act (tieing with Dynamite)
- Charted on Year End AM at #21
AMAZON MUSIC
- Broke the Record for the most streamed song in the first week in Amazon Music history
Country Charts:
- Debuted at #6 in Germany (2nd top 10 for bts and Highest debut for a korean act)
- Debuted at #3 in UK (2nd top 10 for bts, highest debut by a korean act tying with Dynamite and now MU)
Peaks in Countries
- Argentina - 7
- Australia - 6
- Austria - 7
- Belgium Flanders - 41
- Belgium Wallonia - 35
- Bolivia - 6
- Brazil - 3
- Canada - 2
- Costa Rica - 5
- Czech Republic - 5
- Denmark - 22
- Ecuador - 16
- El Salvador - 3
- Finland - 15
- France - 7
- Germany - 6
- Greece - 6
- Hungary - 1
- India - 1
- Ireland - 7
- Israel - 8
- Italy- 27
- Japan - 1
- Latvia - 2
- Lithuania - 20
- Malaysia - 1
- Mexico - 1/2
- Netherlands - 35
- New Zealand - 6
- Norway - 28
- Panama - 5
- Peru - 6
- Portugal - 4
- Singapore - 1
- Slovakia - 4
- South Korea - 1
- Spain - 23
- Sweden - 33
- Switzerland - 7
- UK - 3
- US - 1
- Venezuela - 37
- Vietnam - 1
Year end charts
- Canada - 32
- Hungary - 2
- Japan Hot 100 - 6
- Portugal - 128
- South Korea - 7
- US Hot 100 - 11
- Global 200 - 11
- Global 200 Excluding US - 5
Global 200
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Achieved a Billboard all-kill
- #1 on Hot 100, Global 200 and Global 200 Excluding US
- 7th song to do so (of which 3/7 are BTS songs with Dynamite and LGO)
- Holds the Biggest Streaming Week in Global 200 History with over 289.2M streams
- its 2nd week was also the 2nd highest single week in history
- Holds the Biggest Sales Week in Global 200 History
- Spent over 3 weeks with over 100M streams on the Global 200
- Charted #11 on Global 200 Year End
- Charted #5 on Global 200 (excluding US) Year End
US
- DEBUTED AT #1 on the hot 100
- #1 for 10 weeks
- Spent 20 weeks on the chart
- Top selling song of 2021 in the US with 1.89M downloads
- Longest Running #1 hit on the digital song sales (18 weeks* tied with Dynamite)
- Longest charting song by a Korean act inside the Top 10 of BB Hot 100 (14 weeks)
- Charted #11 on Year End Hot 100
- Won the BBMA for best selling song
Japan:
- Debuted with 16.7M streams on Oricon Streaming Chart, the biggest streaming debut in Oricon Chart History (it also made BTS, the artist with the most #1s on the chart)
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Broke the record for highest daily stream peak in Spotify Japan’s History (0ver 500k)
- Holds the Top 3 Biggest Streaming days
- Fastest song in BB Japan History to surpass 100M streams
- Became BTS's second song to surpass 250k downloads
- Fastest song in history to be certified RIAJ platinum (100M)
- Fastest song to surpass 100, 200M and 300M streams on BB japan
- Most streamed song on Line Music in 2021
- Spent over 100 days at #1 on Spotify Japan -- The first song by a Korean act to do so
- Butter is also the 2nd second longest charting song by a Korean Act inside the top 10 of the BB Japan hot 100 after Dynamite
- Spent 4 weeks at #1 on the BB Japan Hot 100 (first song by a foreign act to do so and 7th overall in history)
- Charted at #1 on AM Japan for days
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Butter recorded over 29.9M streams in its first full tracking week on Billboard Japan.
- The first time in history a song exceeded 20M streams in a single week.
- Charted #1 on Japan Hot 100s Radio/Airplay chart -- only 2nd song by a Korean act to do so (1st was Dynamite)
- Debuted at #1 on YouTube Japan's Top Songs Chart with 33.5M streams (surpassing Dynamite)
- Accumulated 2M points on Oricon's Combined Singles Chart
- Ranked at #1 on Oricon's Singles Chart for 2021
- First song in history to have 12 consecutive weeks over 10M streams on Oricon
- Fastest song in Oricon History to Surpass 100M Streams and 100k downloads
- Biggest debut streaming week + peak streaming week in Oricon history
- Has Spent 52 consecutive weeks (1 year) on the BB Japan Hot 100 (currently charting at #18)
- Won 4 Japanese Golden Disk Awards
(phew, this took me ages to find all the above, it really is a smash smash in Japan)
Awards
- AMAs - Favorite Pop Song
- AAA - Song Of The Year
- BreakTudo Awards - International Hit
- MMA - Song Of The Year
- MAMA - Best Dance performance Male Group
- MAMA - BEST MV
- MAMA - Song Of The Year
- MTV VMAs- Song of the Summer
- MTV VMAs - Best Kpop
- MTV VMAs Japan - Best Group Video - International
- PCAs - Song of 2021
- PCAs - Music Video of 2021
- BBMA - Top Selling song
- GAON - SOTY May
- Variety's Hitmakers - Record of The Year
- Golden Disc Awards - Best Digital Song (Bonsang)
- iHeartRadio Music Awards - MV
- Japan Golden Disc Awards - Best 5 songs by Streaming
- Japan Golden Disc Awards - Best 5 songs by Download
- Japan Golden Disc Awards - Song of the Year by Download
- Japan Golden Disc Awards - Song of the Year by Streaming
BIG NOMINATIONS
- Billboard Music Awards nomination for Top Global 200 Excluding US Song
- GRAMMY Best Pop Duo/Group performance Nomination
above marked historical marks with:
- Grammy Nom Marked the first Korean act to be nominated twice at the GRAMMYs.
Certifications
- France - GOLD - 100k
- Italy - GOLD - 35k
- Japan - PLATINUM - 250,000 (downloads)
- Portugal - GOLD - 5,000
- Spain - GOLD - 20,000
- UK - Silver - 200,000
- US - 2 x PLATINUM (eligible for 3x) - 2,000,000
- Japan - PLATINUM - 100,000,000 (streams)
- Korea - PLATINUM - 100,000,000 (streams)
Charted at #4 on IFPI’s single charts with 1.76B subscription streams equivalents.
Marking the first time a Korean act has charted on the IFPI Global Singles Chart TWICE and only second song by a Korean act to chart Top 5 After Gangnam Style
Truly a global hit song!!!!
FYI please tell me if i missed anything..... This list is probably missing a bunch.
Congrats to BTS, ARMYs and Butter for completing a year ... the Butter keeps charting as we speak