[instiz] BILLBOARD CHANGES THEIR RULES, US POLITICAL ISSUES, EVEN WITH BROADCASTS ON STRIKE, BTS JUNGKOOK IS #1

1. Rule change

On July 2nd, Jungkook's solo single release was announced.

1 hour later

Billboard Hot 100 counting method announced

It was about how they removed the ability to count the artists' homepage's digital single downloads

Billboard will no longer count digital download singles from artist webstores (D2C) towards the Hot 100.

Starts tomorrow, June 30. pic.twitter.com/fc0PNeobsB
— chart data (@chartdata) June 30, 2023

2. US broadcast strike

The United States has been on strike since last May.

Therefore, GMA was the only US promotion he did (due to heavy rain, he could not rehearse properly and had to record only once too).

3. US political issues

Throughout this year's Billboard Hot 100 and 200, American national singers were in first place, so American ARMYs were nervous.

A certain song suddenly raises a black human rights political issue.

(The music video was filmed in 1927 in front of a court where a black boy was assaulted and hanged by 350 white men, and it is suspected that the lyrics and music video also contain disparaging content about blacks and BLM)

Although the singer himself strongly denied it,

American white conservatives gathered and purchased the music in large quantities.

Jason Aldean shot this at the site where a white lynch mob strung Henry Choate up at the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tenn., after dragging his body through the streets with a car in 1927.

That's where Aldean chose to sing about murdering people who don't respect police. https://t.co/gBL7FlaBS2 pic.twitter.com/eGfmMc8HAI
— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) July 17, 2023

Because of this, I wasn't sure who would win first until right before the announcement.

to some extent

Billboard's official said it was the fiercest competition for number one in Billboard's 65-year history.

In they end, he won by only 2 points

There were a lot of difficulties, such as the fact that Hybe was out of stock for almost a week because the company couldn't predict the demand for CDs.

This is an especially meaningful #1 for American Army

original post: here

1. 💜

2. This is so cool

3. And he even caught a cold ㅜㅠ Jungkook-ah you're so good

4. 💜

5. 💜 This is so precious

6. Everyone suffered ㅠㅠ I-lovelyz you guys worked hard ㅠㅠ

7. Yet people were bashing him for his sales ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ And this is the number we're talking about ... Congrats!!

8. I knew that Billboard reformed their charts but I didn't know they did that only 1 hour after Jungkook released his solo

9. We won with streams, this makes me feel even happier

10. 💜