BTS Dominates Both Major Billboard Main Charts with Korean Songs

New Song 'Life Goes On' Debuts at No. 1 on Hot 100... First in 62-Year Chart History

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The group BTS has topped the main US Billboard singles chart with a Korean-language song.

Billboard reported on the 30th of last month (local time) that their new song "Life Goes On" reached number one on this week's "Hot 100" singles chart. It is the title track of their new mini-album "BE," released on the 20th of last month. Following the album chart "Billboard 200," they simultaneously dominated both of Billboard's main charts.

"Life Goes On" features almost all lyrics in Korean except for the chorus. This is the first time in the 62-year history of the chart that a Korean-language song has reached the top of the "Hot 100." It is also the first non-English song to debut at the top spot in its first week of release. The last non-English song to top the "Hot 100" was "Despacito," a Spanish-language track by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee that sparked the Latin pop wave in 2017. Previous records include "La Bamba" by the band Los Lobos in 1987 and "Macarena" by the group Los del R?o in 1996.

BTS first reached number one on the "Hot 100" in August with their English single "Dynamite," becoming the first Korean artist to do so. In October, they featured on the remix version of "Savage Love" by Jawsh 685 and Jason Derulo, achieving the same success. Including "Life Goes On," they have claimed the number one spot on the "Hot 100" three times in just over three months. This is the first time in 42 years since the Australian rock band Bee Gees consecutively hit number one with three songs from the "Saturday Night Fever" OST (How Deep Is Your Love, Staying Alive, Night Fever) from December 1977 to March 1978.

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