{"id":170360,"date":"2026-06-28T07:47:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T14:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=170360"},"modified":"2026-06-28T07:47:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T14:47:42","slug":"bts-sets-another-astonishing-uk-record-with-swim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/bts-sets-another-astonishing-uk-record-with-swim\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS sets another astonishing UK Record with \u201cSWIM\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>BTS<\/strong> presented their fifth full album, <em>\u201cARIRANG,<\/em>\u201d after a three-year hiatus due to the enlistment of all members to the South Korean military. So, it\u2019s no surprise that the idols broke tens of records after releasing their new album and single, <strong><em>\u201cSWIM.\u201d<\/em> <\/strong>This time, the United Kingdom charts are the living proof that BTS\u2019s fever is more alive than ever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On June 28 KST, <strong>the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) officially awarded BTS\u2019s latest title track <em>\u201cSWIM\u201d<\/em> a silver BRIT certification<\/strong>. The silver certifications are granted after the musical piece sells 200,000 units, while albums are certified silver at 60,000 units sold.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018SWIM\u2019, the single by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BTS_twt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BTS_twt<\/a>, is now <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/BRITcertified?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BRITcertified<\/a> Silver. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/D8IvvkGeG9\">pic.twitter.com\/D8IvvkGeG9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BRIT Awards (@BRITs) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BRITs\/status\/2070508533498421657?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The silver certification to \u201c<em>SWIM<\/em>\u201d makes it their 13th song to achieve the feat, and earns a special record in the territory.\u00a0 <strong>BTS is now the first Korean artist ever to have 13 different singles certified silver in the United Kingdom<\/strong><em>. &#8220;SWIM&#8221;<\/em> joined the silver group along with<em>\u201cBoy With Luv,\u201d \u201cDynamite,\u201d \u201cMIC Drop,\u201d \u201cDNA,\u201d \u201cFake Love,\u201d \u201cButter,\u201d \u201cMy Universe,\u201d \u201cIDOL,\u201d \u201cBlood Sweat &amp; Tears,\u201d \u201cON,\u201d \u201cPermission to Dance,\u201d<\/em> and <em>\u201cMake It Right.\u201d<\/em> Congratulations to BTS on this amazing achievement, one of many to come!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BTS (\ubc29\ud0c4\uc18c\ub144\ub2e8) \u2018SWIM\u2019 Official MV\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b4iVv91Z6lY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BTS presented their fifth full album, \u201cARIRANG,\u201d after a three-year hiatus due to the enlistment of all members to the South Korean military. So, it\u2019s no surprise that the idols broke tens of records after releasing their new album and single, \u201cSWIM.\u201d This time, the United Kingdom charts are the living proof that BTS\u2019s fever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":170361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2264,16],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-170360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-entertainment","category-kpop","tag-bts"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170364,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170360\/revisions\/170364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}