BTS’s ‘Butter’ scores biggest song debut in Spotify history

‘Butter’ which is anticipated disco-pop anthem earned 11.042 million global Spotify streams, breaking the platform’s opening day record, formerly held by Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber’s collaborated song ‘I Don’t Care’ (10.977 million).

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The song debuted at No. 2 on the global Spotify chart overall, behind Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Good 4 U’ (12.192 million), which has ruled the global chart.

On the US Spotify chart, ‘Butter’ debuted at No. 10 with 1.917 million streams, a career best for the K-pop band, trailing nine songs off Rodrigo’s new album, Sour, which came out yesterday.

Moreover, the band also enjoyed some hefty supplemental streams from the instrumental version of the song which debuted at No. 43 on the global Spotify chart with 1.883 million streams.

Cumulatively, both versions of BTS’s new single earned close to 13 million global first-day streams.

Moreover, more than nine million of the first-day streams for ‘Butter’ came from outside the United States. BTS’s newest single scored the ninth-biggest single-day streaming total overall.

This is the fastest time in YouTube history that this milestone has ever been achieved by a K-pop group.

Furthermore, the music video for ‘Butter’ earned the biggest premiere in YouTube history as the song tentatively broken YouTube’s 24-hour debut record with an estimated 112.855 million views, surpassing the 101.1 million first-day views earned by ‘Dynamite’.

Previously, BTS’ Grammy nominated song 'Dynamite' crossed one billion views on YouTube in just seven months. The fastest time in YouTube history that this milestone has ever been achieved by a K-pop group.

Besides Dynamite there are other BTS music-videos to attain this particular benchmark including ‘Boy With Luv’ (1.1 billion viewpoints) and ‘DNA’ (1.2 billion viewpoints)

Other BTS videos have more than 100 million viewpoints consisting, Fake Love (900-million views), Idol (800-million views) and Blood Sweat Tears (700 million views).

Acclaimed Korean pop band, BTS also known as Bangtan Sonyeondan have named the Global Recording Artist of the Year Award from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).

Earlier in January, BTS were also named entertainer of the year by Time magazine and secured its first major Grammy nomination which will held on March 14.

The band debuted in 2013 under Big Hit Entertainment and includes four vocalists and three rappers.

The septet is composed of RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook.