{"id":385339,"date":"2026-04-06T21:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/385339\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T21:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:55:09","slug":"bts-swim-no-1-on-billboard-global-charts-for-second-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/385339\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS\u2019 \u2018Swim\u2019 No. 1 on Billboard Global Charts for Second Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/bts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BTS<\/a>\u2019 \u201cSwim\u201d dives into a second week at No. 1 on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-global-200\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Billboard Global 200<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-global-excl-us\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Billboard Global Excl. U.S.<\/a> charts, a week after the song <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/bts-swim-number-1-global-charts-debut-1236210219\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">debuted<\/a> as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/bts-new-album-arirang-first-lp-6-years-listen-1236203070\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reunited<\/a> South Korean stars\u2019 record-extending eighth No. 1 on each ranking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cSwim\u201d rules the Global 200 with 106.3 million streams (down 3%) and 114,000 downloads sold (down 49%) worldwide March 27-April 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBTS\u2019 \u201cBody to Body,\u201d likewise from the group\u2019s new album, ARIRANG, holds at its No. 2 Global 200 high and Dominic Fike\u2019s \u201cBabydoll\u201d rebounds 12-3 for a new best, surpassing its prior No. 7 peak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tTame Impala and JENNIE\u2019s \u201cDracula\u201d reaches the Global 200\u2019s top 10, bounding 16-4 with 42 million streams (up 10%) and 3,000 sold (up 22%) worldwide. The song, originally released by Tame Impala solo last October while its duet version arrived in early February, is Tame Impala\u2019s first top 10 on the chart and JENNIE\u2019s fifth as a soloist. BLACKPINK, with JENNIE as a member, likewise has earned five top 10s on the tally (with the act\u2019s LISA, ROS\u00c9 and Jisoo having notched three, two and one, respectively, as soloists.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tPinkPantheress\u2019 \u201cStateside,\u201d with Zara Larsson, ascends 10-5 on the Global 200, after it led for a week in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cSwim\u201d leads Global Excl. U.S. with 91.7 million streams (down 3%) and 46,000 sold (down 63%) outside the U.S.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cBody to Body\u201d repeats at its No. 2 Global Excl. U.S. high and another ARIRANG track, \u201cHooligan,\u201d dips 3-5 in its second week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cBabydoll\u201d surges 14-3 on Global Excl. U.S., topping its prior No. 7 best.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cDracula\u201d rises (creak, creak) 17-4 on Global Excl. U.S., where it\u2019s also Tame Impala\u2019s first top 10. JENNIE earns her sixth solo top 10 on the chart, surpassing BLACKPINK\u2019s five as a group. (The top 10 solo totals for LISA, ROS\u00c9 and Jisoo: four, three and two, respectively.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe Billboard Global 200 and Global Excl. U.S. charts, which began in September 2020, rank songs based on streaming and sales activity culled from more than 200 territories around the world, as compiled by Luminate. The Global 200 is inclusive of worldwide data and the Global Excl. U.S. chart comprises data from territories excluding the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tChart ranks are based on a weighted formula incorporating official-only streams on both subscription and ad-supported tiers of audio and video music services, as well as download sales, the latter of which reflect purchases from full-service digital music retailers from around the world, with sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites excluded from the charts\u2019 calculations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe latest charts, dated April 11, 2026, will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, April 7. For both tallies, the top 100 titles are available to all readers on Billboard.com, while the complete 200-title rankings are visible on Billboard Pro, Billboard\u2019s subscription-based service. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tLuminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubpass.co\/billboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><br \/>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2HpFicp.png\" alt=\"Billboard VIP Pass\" style=\"max-width: 100%;height: auto\"\/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BTS\u2019 \u201cSwim\u201d dives into a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200 and the Billboard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2075,93,4608,61,60,278,633],"class_list":{"0":"post-385339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-breaking","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-genre-kpop","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-music-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}