Baton Touch! 'Permission to Dance' Debuts at No. 1 and BTS Becomes First Band in History to Earn Four #1 Debuts on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart
Date: July 19, 2021
“Permission to Dance” has taken the baton! The song debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart dated July 24, 2021.
This is BTS’s 5th No. 1 song [Permission to Dance, Butter, Life Goes On, Savage Love (BTS Remix), and Dynamite] in a span of 10 months and 2 weeks!
BTS is the first act to replace themselves on the chart since 2018
First band in history to earn four #1 debuts (collaboration not included) on the Hot 100 🥳
Artist with the most #1 hits on the Hot 100 in the 2020s Decade
So many achievements, congratulations to BTS & ARMY💜
BTS has achieved its Hot 100 No. 1s over a span of 10 months and two weeks. That's the quickest accumulation of five leaders since Michael Jackson tallied five, all from his album Bad, over nine months and two weeks in 1987-88: "I Just Can't Stop Loving You," with Siedah Garrett, "Bad," "The Way You Make Me Feel," "Man in the Mirror" and "Dirty Diana."
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