{"id":343774,"date":"2026-03-23T14:09:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T14:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/343774\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T14:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T14:09:15","slug":"bts-swim-tops-spotifys-global-chart-for-second-day-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/343774\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS’ ‘SWIM’ tops Spotify’s global chart for second day in a row"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A teaser image of BTS’ new song “SWIM” \/ Courtesy of BigHit Music<\/p>\n

K-pop giant BTS has topped Spotify’s Daily Top Songs Global chart for the second consecutive day with “SWIM,” the lead track from its new album “ARIRANG,” released last week.<\/p>\n

The track ranked No. 1 on Friday and Saturday, with “Body to Body” placing second, keeping both songs at the top positions globally, Spotify data showed.<\/p>\n

Other songs from the 14-track album also entered the chart’s upper ranks, including “Hooligan” at No. 4, “Fya” at No. 5, “Normal” at No. 6 and “Aliens” at No. 8.<\/p>\n

BTS also dominated domestic charts. As of 11 a.m. Monday, “SWIM” held the No. 1 spot on the Top 100 songs chart of Melon, a leading local music streaming service, with five songs from “ARIRANG” in the top 10.<\/p>\n

The album sold around 540,000 copies in Japan on its first day, debuting atop Oricon’s daily album chart, and surpassed 4 million sales within three days of release in the country, according to Hanteo Chart.<\/p>\n

BTS marked its return as a full seven-member group after nearly four years of a break from group projects by hosting a free concert at Gwanghwamun Square in central Seoul on Saturday, drawing tens of thousands of fans from around the world.<\/p>\n

The septet is scheduled to hold a special fan event, “Spotify x BTS: Swimside,” in New York on Monday, followed by appearances on NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Wednesday and Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teaser image of BTS’ new song “SWIM” \/ Courtesy of BigHit Music K-pop giant BTS has topped…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-343774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}