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BTS Show Off Their Best Moves With ‘Permission to Dance’ Performance on ‘Fallon’: Watch
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Fans Choose BTS’ ‘Permission to Dance’ as This Week’s Favorite New Music
BTS’ “Permission to Dance” will be included on the CD single of “Butter,” which is currently spending its sixth week atop the Billboard Hot 100. The four-track CD single, featuring both songs and their instrumental versions, was released on Friday. The new track was written by Sheeran and Snow Patrol singer Johnny McDaid, along with frequent Sheeran collaborator, British producer Steve Mac, as well as “Butter” co-writer Jenna Andrews. BTS will bring the debut television performance of “Permission to Dance” to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon for the K-pop group’s special two-night musical takeover from July 13-14. Placing second on the past week’s tally with nearly 26% of the vote was Eilish’s...
NCT 127 Celebrates 5-Year Anniversary With New Album Announcement
Wednesday’s livestream was also in celebration of the group’s five-year anniversary. On this day in 2016, NCT 127 released their very first single “Firetruck.” The band celebrated the milestone with a virtual talk show, games and performances in addition to the album announcement. Taeil, Johnny, Taeyong, Yuta, Doyoung, Jaehyun, Mark, Jungwoo and Haechan are the men behind NCT 127, whose name is inspired by the longitude number of Seoul, symbolizing the group’s home base. The nine NCT 127 guys form a subunit of larger group NCT (Neo Culture Technology) — meaning you can find more music from them on NCT’s full group projects. As a subunit, NCT 127 has quite a few projects under its belt, with several mini albums in their discography as well as two studio albums. They’ve also garn...
BTS Unveils ‘Butter’ CD Single Tracklist, and It Includes the New Ed Sheeran Collab
“Butter” held on to the No. 1 spot on the latest edition (July 3) of the Billboard Songs of the Summer survey (which will run from June 12 to Sept. 11), and the song led the Billboard Hot 100 song chart for a fifth week in the latest tally, continuing a run that kicked off since it debuted at No. 1. following its May 21 release, making it the group’s longest leading No. 1 to date. Andrews recently described the process of creating “Butter” to Billboard, saying that when she first heard it in February, she knew it was something special. “When [writer-producer] Rob [Grimaldi] sent me this song he worked on with [writers] Stephen Kirk and Sebastian Garcia, I immediately thought that the hook and melody were incredible,” Andrews said. “I thou...
Seventeen Share the ‘Love’ With High-Energy Performance on ‘Kimmel’: Watch
“Ready to Love” is lifted from Your Choice, Seventeen’s eight mini-album. The boy band has big ambitions. “The goal is to be on Billboard’s charts. We want to top the Billboard charts,” they said of Your Choice during a press conference last Friday, streamed from the Intercontinental hotel in Seoul, South Korea. The outfit also demonstrated the boisterous reaction they’d give when they do hit No. 1. Cue hollering and hands flapping. Seventeen typically release new music on a Monday, but Your Choice dropped last Friday (June 18). There’s a reason for that. They’re “targeting audiences in the U.S. and the Americas as well. And I think we’ll have more opportunities to perform on global shows,” they explained in the streaming event, which coincided wit...
Seventeen’s ‘Choice’ for Latest Mini-Album? ‘We Want to Top the Billboard Charts’
Seventeen typically releases new music on a Monday, but with Your Choice, they’re released on a Friday. There’s a reason for that. They’re “targeting audiences in the U.S. and the Americas as well. And I think we’ll have more opportunities to perform on global shows,” Seungkwan said. “It’d be really nice to place our name on the main Billboard charts,” S.Coups added. “That would be really great and we’d get energized.” As part of their U.S. invasion, they’re performing Wednesday on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and other shows yet to be revealed. Your Choice is the group’s eighth EP, and it comes eight months after their last, October 2020’s Semicolon. Now all eyes are on them to see if they will become quadruple-million sellers,...
Kim Jong-un Calls K-Pop a ‘Vicious Cancer’
“To Kim Jong-un, the cultural invasion from South Korea has gone beyond a tolerable level,” Jiro Ishimaru, chief editor of the Japanese website Asia Press International, which monitors North Korea, told the NYT. “If this is left unchecked, he fears that his people might start considering the South an alternative Korea to replace the North.” HYBE, formerly known as Big Hit Entertainment and home to BTS, has done its best to celebrate K-pop and expand its influence globally with a new museum, which opened to the public last month at HYBE’s headquarters in the Yongsan district, and its purchase of Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings, which brings K-pop supergroups such as BTS, Tomorrow X Together and Seventeen under the same roof as U.S. pop superstars Jus...
Which Is Your Favorite BTS Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 Hit? Vote!
BTS has notched four No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 in the last nine months, but which of the K-pop supergroup’s chart-toppers takes the cake as your favorite? RM told Billboard in an interview ahead of the 2021 Billboard Music Awards that their first No. 1 song “Dynamite” was “an upbeat, disco-pop [track] that we tried to give hope to global listeners in the middle of the pandemic,” while their latest, “Butter,” is a “more upbeat, fresh dance-pop track, like more like a summer anthem. Just all the positive vibes and upbeat energy.” The K-pop boy band teamed up with New Zealand producer Jawsh 685 and American pop superstar Jason Derulo for the official remix of “Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Bea...
BTS’ ‘Butter’ Makes Record-Breaking Bow Atop Billboard Global Charts
Billboard‘s two global charts (the latest of which are dated June 5) rank songs based on streaming and sales activity culled from more than 200 territories around the world, as compiled by MRC Data. The Billboard Global 200 is inclusive of worldwide data and the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart comprises data from territories excluding the U.S. Chart rankings are based on a weighted formula incorporating official-only streams on both subscription and ad-supported tiers of audio and video music services, as well as download sales, the latter of which reflect purchases from full-service digital music retailers from around the world, with sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites excluded from the charts’ calculations. Record Streams & Sales for ‘Butter’ Atop Glob...
Fans Choose BTS’ ‘Butter (Hotter Remix)’ as This Week’s Favorite New Music
This marks BTS’ second consecutive week topping Billboard‘s new music poll. Last week, the septet was crowned the winner with the original release of “Butter,” bringing in more than 72% of the vote. BTS released “Butter” on May 21 and shortly after slid onto the 2021 Billboard Music Awards, where the boy band took home four awards, and The Late Show With Stephen Colbert for some smooth performances. The song has also been heating up streaming services, after the song whipped up the largest single-day streams for a song in Spotify’s history with more than 20.9 million global streams and broke churned out two YouTube records. Placing second on the past week’s tally with nearly 18% of the vote was the “Anniversary Edition” of Juice W...
Olivia Rodrigo, BTS, Taylor Swift & More of the Week’s Biggest Winners (May 14)
Happiest Music News: Olivia Rodrigo is Billboard‘s latest cover star The “Drivers License” hitmaker is on Billboard‘s cover, where writer Andrew Unterberger recalls Rodrigo’s fast track to superstardom, bypassing the usual route of past Disney stars, picking up the pace at the resurgent Geffen Records, and wondering if she’ll be stuck as “the heartbreak girl.” Read her cover story interview here, and see the photos from the cover shoot here. Funniest Music News: T-Pain goes on an apology tour on Instagram Live What happens when T-Pain doesn’t check his Instagram DMs for years? He invites the same high-profile artists who tried contacting him, including Lil Jon, Kehlani, Zedd and Lauren Jauregui, up on Instagram Live to of...
BTS to Perform New Single ‘Butter’ at 2021 Billboard Music Awards
The Weeknd and P!nk, who will receive the Icon Award honoring record-breaking artists and their impact on music, will also take the stage as this year’s performers. The Billboard Music Awards celebrate music’s greatest achievements, with finalists determined by performance on the Billboard charts. Finalists and winners are based on key fan interactions with music — album and digital song sales, streaming, radio airplay and social engagement — tracked by Billboard and its data partners, including MRC Data. This year’s awards are based on the chart period of March 21, 2020, through April 3, 2021. The 2021 BBMAs are produced by dick clark productions, which is owned by MRC; MRC and Penske Media are co-parent companies of Billboard. Barry Adelman and Robe...
