Broadway star Lea Salonga rushed to the defense of BTS after the South Korean supergroup’s music chart success was labeled “inorganic.”
Salonga echoed the sentiments of writers from Forbesand another outlet that responded to an article published by Stereogum on June 2 claiming BTS was “rendering the pop charts useless.”
The said story was written after BTS became the first act to gain four No. 1s on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart this quickly since The Jackson 5 in the ’70s.
In the article, music columnist Tom Breihan wrote that “‘Butter’ is not the most popular song in America right now” as it only made it to No. 1 “almost entirely based on sales of discounted digital singles.”
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