BTS tops global charts
- BTS' song "SWIM" remained at number one on the global charts for a fourth consecutive week. - Billboard reported the track holding the top global position in its latest chart cycle. - Social engagement around the chart news shows continued international streaming momentum for the group. (x.com)
BTS’ “SWIM” stayed at No. 1 on Billboard’s Global 200 and Global Excl. U.S. charts for a fourth straight week in the April 25, 2026 cycle. (billboard.com) Billboard said “SWIM” debuted at No. 1 three weeks earlier, giving BTS its record-extending eighth leader on both global charts. Billboard’s global rankings combine streaming and sales from more than 200 territories, with one chart including the United States and the other excluding it. (billboard.com 1) (billboard.com 2) The song’s global run has outlasted its initial launch week, after Billboard reported second-week and third-week returns to No. 1 before the fourth-week hold. In the United States, “SWIM” also remained on the Hot 100 in its fourth week, ranking No. 10 on the chart dated April 25. (billboard.com 1) (billboard.com 2) (en.yna.co.kr) The chart streak extends a broader comeback cycle for BTS around the album “ARIRANG,” which Billboard reported opened at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 while “SWIM” started at No. 1 on the Hot 100. RM later acknowledged those chart debuts in an Instagram story, writing that he felt “luv and gratitude,” according to Billboard. (billboard.com) Billboard also reported that songs from “ARIRANG” made an unusually large opening across its global rankings, with BTS becoming the first act to occupy the entire top 10 of the Global Excl. U.S. chart at once. That gave “SWIM” a chart environment shaped not by a single breakout track alone, but by album-wide consumption across multiple songs. (billboard.com 1) (billboard.com 2) By the April 25 chart week, Korean media reports citing Billboard said 13 vocal tracks from “ARIRANG” were still on the Global 200, and all ranked inside the top 50 of Global Excl. U.S. Those placements point to sustained listening outside a one-week fan surge. (koreaherald.com) (tenasia.com) The latest global chart hold keeps “SWIM” at the center of BTS’s first major group release cycle after the members’ military-service era, with the group now running simultaneous campaigns across album, singles and worldwide streaming charts. Four weeks at No. 1 does not close that run, but it fixes “SWIM” as the song carrying this phase of BTS’s return. (billboard.com) (billboard.com)
