BTS’s ARMY Asks For Recalculated “ON” Stats With #BillboardRecalculate
BTS have achieved an all-time high on Billboard‘s “Hot 100” chart with “ON”, but fans believe that a recalculation is in order.
On March 2, Billboard announced the Top 10 for their “Hot 100” (dated March 7). BTS’s Map of the Soul: 7 title track, “ON”, took the No.4 spot, making it BTS’s highest-ranking song to ever debut on the “Hot 100”. Previously, BTS’s 2019 single “Boy With Luv (feat. Halsey)” debuted at No.8.
The #Hot100 top 10 (chart dated March 7, 2020) pic.twitter.com/AcbKxf39ig
— Billboard Charts (@billboardcharts) March 2, 2020
BTS has debuted a total of 11 songs on the “Hot 100”, with three of them (“ON”, “Boy With Luv”, and “FAKE LOVE”) charting in the Top 10. With “ON”, BTS surpassed PSY as the Korean artist with the most songs in the “Hot 100” chart’s Top 10.
.@BTS_twt now has 11 career entries on the #Hot100:
#4, On
#8, Boy With Luv
#10, Fake Love
#11, Idol
#28, Mic Drop
#57, Black Swan
#67, DNA
#76, Make It Right
#84, My Time
#87, Filter
#89, Waste It On Me— Billboard Charts (@billboardcharts) March 2, 2020
As always, ARMYs are incredibly proud of BTS’s achievements, but many are concerned about Billboard’s calculations, which include streaming data from Youtube and Spotify. BTS’s Top 10 ranking could have potentially been lowered if the necessary chart data from all US streaming platforms, such as Amazon Music, was not included.
Us spotify for on is 4,106,614 and for on ft sia it's 3,825,710 then you have yt where kinetic manifesto has 7,91m and the 14h of tracking for the mv has 3.08m and that's 18,9m with just 2 platforms????? https://t.co/q2VKA0eA9v
— ⇝alex⁷⇜ (@outro_tear_) March 2, 2020
The streams don't make sense .. And Pandora? Apple? Tidal? etc… You only count YouTube And Spotify ? @billboardcharts check Again the streams .. thank u
— BTSChartDaily⁷ (@BTSChartDaily) March 2, 2020
Billboard’s original tweet, now deleted, states that the “ON” MV premiered on February 28, when it premiered on February 27. Although Billboard has since corrected their statement, fans are worried that streams from February 27 may not have been included when Billboard calculated the “Hot 100” chart’s ranking.
Explain. Did you calculate the streams from the MV correctly? pic.twitter.com/10aa5t7z8a
— forever we are young⁷ (@wendywrites3) March 2, 2020
Even with the first day of “ON” MV streams taken into account, some fans feel that the numbers are still too low.
Looks like Billboard has clarified that the February 27 "ON" video streams count, but that almost makes the situation more confusing … because the 18M number now seems especially low.
— Brian Cantor (@cantorpedia) March 2, 2020
As a result, ARMY have trended the hashtag #BillboardRecalculate, asking for transparency and accuracy. They are determined to give BTS the recognition they have earned by ensuring their stats truly match their achievements.
Of course we're proud for getting #4 but please do your math right, Billboard. If you can't do it, we will do it for you then. TRANSPARENCY PLS 😌#BillboardRecalculate pic.twitter.com/tb0Zb3FVWC
— mikaela.⁷ (@j_jungkookies) March 3, 2020
You have calculated the wrong figures
We need an explanation !!!!#BillboardRecalculate @billboardcharts pic.twitter.com/hc5TLczDkG— ipurpleyou✨ (@purple_day1306) March 3, 2020
