{"id":149823,"date":"2021-05-21T16:51:58","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T20:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=149823"},"modified":"2021-05-21T16:54:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T20:54:13","slug":"bts-to-perform-butter-at-billboard-music-awards-as-new-single-posts-massive-itunes-spotify-youtube-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2021\/05\/21\/bts-to-perform-butter-at-billboard-music-awards-as-new-single-posts-massive-itunes-spotify-youtube-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS To Perform &#8220;Butter&#8221; At Billboard Music Awards As New Single Posts Massive iTunes, Spotify, YouTube Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BTS&#8217; new single &#8220;Butter&#8221; has been attracting considerable enthusiasm since its launch at midnight.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to rising to #1 on the US iTunes chart (with the instrumental at #2), the song has attracted ample opening day airplay at pop radio. &#8220;Butter&#8221; is also faring well on audio and video streaming platforms. The new, English-language single has reportedly amassed over 15 million raw Spotify streams since its launch (which could lead to an opening day record even after Spotify applies its filtering algorithms); the video has already amassed 88.4 million views.<\/p>\n<p>As the performance statistics make abundantly clear, &#8220;Butter&#8221; is not lacking in the momentum category. The group will nonetheless have a chance to put more fire behind the red-hot single this Sunday, courtesy of a performance during the Billboard Music Awards. Earlier this week, NBCUniversal shared a teaser photo:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_149824\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-149824\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/BTS-Billboard-Music-Awards.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" class=\"size-full wp-image-149824\" srcset=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/BTS-Billboard-Music-Awards.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/BTS-Billboard-Music-Awards-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/BTS-Billboard-Music-Awards-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/BTS-Billboard-Music-Awards-561x374.jpg 561w, https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/BTS-Billboard-Music-Awards-265x176.jpg 265w, https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/BTS-Billboard-Music-Awards-531x354.jpg 531w, https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/BTS-Billboard-Music-Awards-364x242.jpg 364w, https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/BTS-Billboard-Music-Awards-728x485.jpg 728w, https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/BTS-Billboard-Music-Awards-608x405.jpg 608w, https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/BTS-Billboard-Music-Awards-758x505.jpg 758w, https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/BTS-Billboard-Music-Awards-72x48.jpg 72w, https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/BTS-Billboard-Music-Awards-144x96.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-149824\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2021 BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS &#8212; Pictured: In this image released on May 20, (l-r) V, Suga, Jin, RM, Jimin, Jungkook, and J-Hope of BTS pose during the 2021 Billboard Music Awards  (Photo by: taeseong Kim)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Butter&#8221; is posting huge opening day numbers.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":149824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1048],"tags":[11063,8321,14759],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BTS To Perform &quot;Butter&quot; At Billboard Music Awards As New Single Posts Massive iTunes, Spotify, YouTube Numbers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"BTS&#039; new single &quot;Butter&quot; has been attracting considerable enthusiasm since its launch at midnight. 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