BTS, single CD 'Butter' sold 1.97 million copies... Highest sales of the year

 

The group BTS' single CD 'Butter' sold 1.97 million copies in just a week.

According to Hanteo Chart, an album sales statistics site on the 16th, BTS' single CD 'Butter', released on the 9th, sold a total of 1,975,364 copies in one week (July 9th to 15th). This is the highest number of album sales released this year.

With this, BTS released their 4th full-length album 'MAP OF THE SOUL: 7' (3.7 million copies) released in February last year, 'BE' released in November last year (2.7 million copies), Following the release of 'MAP OF THE SOUL: PERSONA' (2.13 million copies) released in April 2019, it took the first to fourth places in the most sales in the first week of history.

The single CD 'Butter' contains a total of 4 tracks including the digital single 'Butter' released on May 21, the new song 'Permission to Dance', and the instrumental version of two songs.

On the music charts, 'Butter' and 'Permission to Dance' are recording overwhelming results. 'Butter' entered the US Billboard's main single chart 'Hot 100' at the same time as it entered the 'Hot 100' and went straight to the top spot for 7 weeks in a row until the latest chart (as of July 17). 1 on 'The Most Downloaded Songs in the United States in the First Half of the Year'.

'Permission to Dance' recorded 40,000 downloads in just 3 days, not only on the top domestic music charts but also on Japan's Oricon's latest chart (July 19th / counting period July 5-11). It took first place on the 'Weekly Digital Singles Ranking'.