BTS made another history on the MelOn chart and this time it's thanks to their 2017 hit "Spring Day." Want to know what the septet achieved? Then, read on!
BTS' "Spring Day" Becomes First Song in MelOn Chart's History to Achieve THIS
Although BTS' English hits "Dynamite," "Butter" and "Permission to Dance" did better than the group's previous songs, "Spring Day" will remain a masterpiece among most ARMYs.
In fact, this iconic BTS song has recently achieved something impressive on a Korean music chart that no other song has.
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Over three years ago, particularly in August 2019, BTS' "Spring Day" claimed the title of the longest-running song in the history of MelOn Top 100. It has spent 130 consecutive weeks on the tally at the time. While a couple of other songs have also attained this feat in the past few years, "Spring Day" is still in the lead.
On the latest MelOn Weekly Chart for the week of Jan. 31 to Feb. 6, "Spring Day" still found its way to charting inside the Top 100. It claimed the No. 80 spot after ranking at No. 78 in the past week. With its latest entry, the track has scored a milestone that seems almost impossible to be true.
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This week marks the 260th week that "Spring Day" has stayed inside the Top 100 of the MelOn chart. When converted to years, the song has been charting for a total of five years straight.
BTS' "Spring Day" is the first song in MelOn chart's history to ever spend five years within the Top 100.
The only other song to spend at least 200 weeks on the Korean music chart is Paul Kim's "Every Day, Every Moment. It has been present on the tally for 202 weeks as of this week, which makes it the second longest-running song on MelOn.
The third longest-charting song is also a BTS track, which is "Boy With Luv" (featuring Halsey). It has marked its 148th week within the Top 100 as of this week.
Congratulations to BTS on marking its fifth year inside MelOn's Weekly Top 100 chart with "Spring Day"!
BTS Members Hold Top 3 Spots on List of Most Viewed Individual TikTok Hashtags
In other news, three BTS members are included in the list of most-viewed individual TikTok hashtags in the world.
As of Feb. 4, BTS Jungkook ranked No. 1 with a TikTok hashtag with the most views. His popular hashtag "#Jungkook" recently crossed 100 billion views on the app. What makes this impressive is that it is the first individual hashtag in the world to ever achieve this, extending his record as the most-viewed person on the platform.
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To celebrate Jungkook's milestone, fans took over the Worldwide and Twitter trends with several keywords and hashtags such as "RECORD MAKER JUNGKOOK," "TIKTOK KING JUNGKOOK," "Congratulations Jungkook" and "#100BForJungkook."
Taking the second spot on the list of most-viewed individual TikTok hashtags is "#Jimin," which belongs to BTS Jimin. "#Jimin" has more than 86 billion views as of Feb. 4. Finally, BTS V's TikTok hashtag "TAEHYUNG" ranked No. 3 with 69 billion views.
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Written by Mhaliya Scott
