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It was only a few weeks ago that BTS dominated the Digital Song Sales chart in the U.S. with tracks featured on their new album Map of the Soul: 7, but already one of the members of the most popular group on the planet is back with a new tune, and this time, he’s going it alone and making a big splash in the process.
BTS member V will debut his new single “Sweet Night” at No. 2 on Billboard’s ranking of the bestselling songs in the country when it refreshes in a day or so. The track managed to sell over 11,000 copies in its first tracking frame, according to data shared by Nielsen Music.
That sum is impressive for a cut that is performed by a musician who is primarily known for the work he’s created as part of a group, and it marks his first top 10 on the list on his own.
“Sweet Night” was beaten only by The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights,” which sold another 16,000 copies this past frame, bringing its total sales count to almost 177,000. That track serves as the second official single from the R&B superstar’s new album After Hours, which was released this past Friday, March 20. The tune has thus far lifted to No. 4 on the Hot 100, and it may continue to climb.
Impressively, V’s latest release is one of three new singles that will start off their time inside the top 10 on the Digital Song Sales chart, and he is able to beat two of the biggest names in the American music market. Launching at No. 4 is Luke Bryan’s “One Margarita” and at No. 9 is OneRepublic’s “Didn’t I.” Those cuts sold about 9,300 and 7,000 copies, respectively.
As he is credited on all of BTS’s successes from Map of the Soul: 7 (sometimes the tracks only feature one or two vocalists, but they are all counted as group efforts on Billboard rankings), V has now landed inside the top 10 on the Digital Song Sales chart nine times so far this year. That’s a huge accumulation of wins on the sales tally, especially considering the fact it is still only March.
“Sweet Night” was promoted as a single from the original soundtrack that accompanies the South Korean TV show Itaewon Class. The program began airing at the beginning of 2020 and the full album dropped this past Friday, alongside “Sweet Night.”
