{"id":173563,"date":"2026-08-12T15:48:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T22:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=173563"},"modified":"2026-08-12T15:48:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T22:48:47","slug":"this-is-how-bts-matched-a-20-week-billboard-record-with-swim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/this-is-how-bts-matched-a-20-week-billboard-record-with-swim\/","title":{"rendered":"This is how BTS matched a 20-week Billboard record with \u201cSwim\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BTS<\/strong> has reached yet another <strong>Billboard<\/strong> achievement with their smash hit single \u201c<strong>Swim<\/strong>,\u201d which has now spent 20 weeks on the Hot 100. On the chart dated August 15, 2026, the track ranked at #91. This milestone matches the 20-week run recorded by \u201cButter,\u201d the boy group\u2019s massive 2021 hit. This is another long-lasting entry on Billboard\u2019s most important chart in the United States for the seven-member team.<\/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<p>The song also continues to climb the rankings on Billboard\u2019s global chart. The song placed at #4 on the Global Excl. U.S. chart and #12 on the Global 200. \u201cSwim\u201d is the main single from BTS\u2019 fifth studio album, \u201cARIRANG,\u201d which moved up one position to #14 on the Billboard 200 on the week of August 15, 2026. The album originally debuted at #1 and remained at the top for three weeks, setting a record for KPop acts. Simultaneously,\u00a0 \u201cSwim\u201d debuted at #1 on the Hot 100, becoming BTS\u2019s seventh track to reach the summit of that chart.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;SWIM&quot; officially ties with &quot;Butter&quot; as BTS&#39;s 2nd Longest Chart in Billboard Hot 100 History !! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/H52hJPhKxL\">pic.twitter.com\/H52hJPhKxL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; K\u2077 | 13TS (@tksovers) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tksovers\/status\/2087134233026572771?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 11, 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>This chart success comes as BTS continues their ongoing world tour. The group is scheduled to visit Texas during the weekend following the August 15, 2026, chart and will then travel to Toronto the next week. The tour will give fans the chance to enjoy \u201cARIRANG\u201d live while the album and its lead single continue to achieve strong results in the United States and the global charts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BTS has reached yet another Billboard achievement with their smash hit single \u201cSwim,\u201d which has now spent 20 weeks on the Hot 100. On the chart dated August 15, 2026, the track ranked at #91. This milestone matches the 20-week run recorded by \u201cButter,\u201d the boy group\u2019s massive 2021 hit. This is another long-lasting entry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":173609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16,7],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-173563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-kpop","category-news","tag-bts"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173563","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\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173612,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173563\/revisions\/173612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}