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After having its new album and title song listed on Billboard's prestigious music charts, BTS notched the highest-charting Hot 100 title ever by a K-pop group, with "DNA" surging to No. 67.
Citing Nielsen Music, Billboard said the track jumped with the chart's top streaming gain, as it concurrently debuted on the Streaming Songs chart at No. 38 with a 114 percent blast to 11.4 million U.S. streams in the week ending September 28.
The seven-member band bests the only other song to have hit the Hot 100 by a K-pop group. Wonder Girls reached No. 76 in 2009 with "Nobody" recorded both in English and Korean.
BTS is the second K-pop act to chart an almost-entirely Korean-language song on the Hot 100, following South Korean rapper PSY, whose smash "Gangnam Style" peaked at No. 2 for seven weeks in 2012.
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Lim Chang-won
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