Jung Kook Becomes Second BTS Soloist to Top the Hot 100, Even as Jason Aldean’s Divisive ‘Small Town’ Is a Potent No. 2

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Jung Kook Becomes Second BTS Soloist to Top the Hot 100, Even as Jason Aldean’s Divisive ‘Small Town’ Is a Potent No. 2
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The BTS Army drove Jung Kook’s first solo single, “Seven,” to No. 1 on the latest Billboard Hot 100 chart, a milestone previously reached by fellow member Jimin’s “Lik…

chart, a milestone previously reached by fellow member Jimin’s “Like Crazy” three months ago. With 21.9 million streams registered, 6.4 million airplay impressions audience and 153,000 singles sold, the track came out of the box as a certifiable monster.doesn’t have a similar Army bolstering him, but does sound like he might be forming a militia in “Try That in a Small Town.” The deeply polarizing song was able to ride a wave of headlines to a No.

Music news has been dominated in the last week by Aldean’s divisive song, which had been out since May without drawing much media attention until an even more provocative — and, many thought, disturbing — music video created a firestorm. Although the vigilante-themed song and video may make Aldean persona non grata in some quarters, his audience defended him and ate it up, consumption-wise, with massive increases in streams and downloads. It didn’t much budge on the country radio airplay chart.

With the paid track download market having slowed down to a trickle when politics aren’t involved, it wasn’t even that difficult for the Aldean tune to reach a benchmark not seen in a decade. The last time a country single sold more copies in a week was 10 years ago this month, when Florida Georgia Line and Nelly’s “Cruise” sold 244,000, according to“Small Town” also debuted at No.

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