Music BTS covers Billboard No other artist this year has spent as much time on the top of Billboard Hot 100 as BTS with their back-to-back hits “Butter” and “Permission to Dance”. After reading their new Billboard cover feature in the new issue of the magazine… I’m not sure Billboard is all that By Lainey • Aug 27, 2021 01:54 pm
Top Reads Megan Thee Stallion Fights for Her Career By Billboard Hot 100 standards, the biggest song of 2021 so far is BTS’s “Butter”. It has topped the chart for more weeks than any other track this year, is still consistently landing in the Top 10, and the band intends to extend that success even further by releasing By Lainey • Aug 25, 2021 10:55 am
Music Intro for July 27, 2021 Dear Gossips, We are living in Bennifer Summer. At the same time, we are also living in BTS Summer. For the last nine weeks, so basically the ENTIRE summer, and even before, if we’re counting from the solstice, BTS has been on top of the Billboard Hot 100. Their By Lainey • Jul 27, 2021 09:32 am
Music BTS: Permission to Travel Yesterday in my opening post about BTS, I wrote about their success over the last year: they’ve just unseated themselves at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, knocking out their own song “Butter” with their new song “Permission to Dance”, their fifth #1 in ten months. And yet, By Lainey • Jul 21, 2021 02:15 pm
Music Intro for July 20, 2021 Dear Gossips, At this point, it was expected, although it’s never a guarantee. Maybe it is now? After seven weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Butter”, BTS has knocked their own song out of the top spot with their new song, “Permission to Dance”. Billboard made By Lainey • Jul 20, 2021 08:52 am
Amazingness BTS from the Bridge Earlier this week, Billboard confirmed that BTS’s smash hit “Butter” is #1 again on the Hot 100; it’s been seven straight weeks. The song debuted at #1 and has stayed there – and now what we’re waiting to see next is whether or not they can dethrone themselves By Lainey • Jul 15, 2021 01:25 pm
Music BTS Gives You “Permission to Dance” In the opening scene of BTS’s new video for their new song, “Permission to Dance”, a plate of pancakes with butter on top is being handed off and the metaphor is unmistakable: “Butter” is BTS’s current hit single, #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for six straight weeks, By Lainey • Jul 09, 2021 12:16 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Baby Parents and BTS at Louis Vuitton Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom and Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas all became parents of baby girls in 2020. Their daughters, Daisy and Willa, were born a month apart. Yesterday in Paris, at the start of Haute Couture week, all four attended the Louis Vuitton Parfum dinner. Katy also performed. By Lainey • Jul 06, 2021 01:58 pm
Music Intro for June 29, 2021 Dear Gossips, Pitchfork asked the question yesterday “What will the 2021 Song of the Summer Be?” with a list of candidates including songs from Saweetie, Doja Cat, Megan Thee Stallion, Olivia Rodrigo, Justin Bieber, and more. There’s a lot that goes into a Song of the Summer. It’s By Lainey • Jun 29, 2021 09:04 am
Music Intro for June 17, 2021 Dear Gossips, BTS dropped an album yesterday. BTS: The Best, a Japanese compilation album, has already broken chart records in Japan to go along with “Butter” staying at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for a third week in a row, which represents their longest #1 streak so far. By Lainey • Jun 17, 2021 10:04 am
Music Intro for June 14, 2021 Dear Gossips, As of this writing, BTS has wrapped on two back-to-back live shows at Seoul Olympic Stadium. I haven’t seen official numbers released yet but the band mentioned during today’s performance that they’d heard that at least 800,000 people had bought tickets, and I imagine By Lainey • Jun 14, 2021 09:46 am
Music Intro for June 11, 2021 Dear Gossips, BTS’s “Butter” is the current #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100, its second week at the top of the chart. Tracking for this past week has ended, will be interesting to see if they can go three in a row, which would be a new milestone By Lainey • Jun 11, 2021 09:42 am
Music Intro for June 4, 2021 Dear Gossips, BTS’s “Butter” is currently the #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100, the band’s fourth #1 in nine months. But can it go two for two? Last year “Dynamite” earned two back-to-back #1s upon its release which is what BTS and their team are hoping for By Lainey • Jun 04, 2021 09:32 am
Music Intro for June 2, 2021 Dear Gossips, It’s official: BTS’s “Butter” is #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, the band’s fourth Hot 100 #1 hit in just nine months after “Dynamite”, “Savage Love BTS Remix”, and “Life Goes On”. They are now the fastest group to reach #1 this many times since By Lainey • Jun 02, 2021 09:38 am
Music Intro for May 28, 2021 Dear Gossips, The iHeartRadio Music Awards were last night and it was The Weeknd and BTS leading the way with the most wins. BTS took the named Best Music Video, Best Fan Army, and Favourite Choreography. So it’s been a big week for the band, because they’ve once By Lainey • May 28, 2021 09:13 am
Equality Issues BTS in Pole Position Motor racing is one of the things on my mind this weekend because it’s the Monaco Grand Prix, the jewel of the F1 circuit, arguably the most prestigious race in the world. And while I have never paid much attention to this event, Drive to Survive changed all that By Lainey • May 21, 2021 01:07 pm
