K-pop superstars and Grammy nominee BTS added another record for their new digital single “Butter.”
Music streaming app Spotify announced that “Butter” rewrote Spotify history by achieving the highest streams in a single day last May 21, the date the song was released.
“On May 21, #BTS_Butter broke the record for most-streamed song in a day in Spotify history #SpotifyCharts,” Spotify Charts posted on Twitter but did not disclose the numbers.
Korean media reported on May 23, based on a press statement by Big Hit Music, that according to Spotify, “Butter” earned 20.9 million global streams on the first day of release on May 21, which is the biggest number of global streams per day in Spotify’s history. This is 66 percent higher than the 12.6 million global streams record set by BTS’ “Dynamite” last year.