BTS Enters Billboard Hot 100 with Korean Song for the First Time

  • 이소연 |2020.12.01 16:13
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Top idol group BTS succeeded in winning the 'Korean Song No. 1 Title' for entering Billboard Hot 100 chart for the first time in 62 years. 

Billboard posted on the official website on November 30th (hereinafter, local time) through an article titled "BTS' Life Goes On', the historic billboard 'Hot 100' 1st place". 

Billboard said, "'Life Goes On' became the #1 song on BTS' 3rd Hot 100 chart following the remix version of 'Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)' by Jason Derulo, where'Dynamite' and BTS participated in the feature.

"It is the first time in the history of 62 years on the Billboard Chart that a song focusing on Korean lyrics has been ranked first." According to Billboard, 'Life Goes On' became the first song to be ranked #1 in the Hot 100 among songs with non-English lyrics after 'Despacito' by Luis Fonsi (feat. Daddy Yankee) in Spanish.

Written by Yoon Sang Geun
Translated by Lee So Yun





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