The group BTS (BTS) has proven its status as a “21st Century Pop Icon.”

Billboard, a U.S. music media outlet, recently reported on its official SNS that “the artist who has topped the Billboard main single chart “Hot 100″ the most over the past decade is BTS.”

During this period, BTS topped the “Hot 100,” followed by Drake (5 songs), Ariana Grande and Taylor Swift (4 songs each), Justin Bieber and Nicky Minaj (3 songs each).

BTS also topped the list of “Hot 100” (September 5, 2020) for the first time as a Korean singer with “Dynamite” (3rd episode), and also put the remix version of “Savage Love” (1 episode) and “Life Goes On” (1 episode) on top in the same year. In 2021, “Butter” (10 times), “Permission to Dance” (1 time), and “My Universe” (1 time), a cold play collaboration song, BTS topped the “Hot 100” with six songs.

BTS is steadily gaining popularity on the Billboard charts. The anthology album Proof ranked 52nd on the main album chart “Billboard 200” on the latest chart (November 5), charting in for 20 consecutive weeks, ranking third in “World Album,” 24th in “Top Current Album Sales,” and 28th in “Top Album Sales.”

Meanwhile, Jungkook and Charlie Puth’s collaboration song “Left and Right (Feat. Jung Cook of BTS)” ranked 78th, “Dynamite” ranked 175th, “Left and Right” ranked 73rd, “Dynamite” ranked 128th, and “My Universe” ranked 134th, and “Butter” ranked 176th.