For music fans in general and Kpop in particular, prestigious music charts like Billboard are one of the measures of the success and popularity of artists and works. Especially for ARMYs, ranking high or even number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 is the goal that fans always aim for every time the members release a new song.
Recently, Jungkook released his second single "3D" and fans continue to expect the song to achieve high results on this chart. Not disappointing the fans, in Billboard's latest announcement, 3D was ranked 5th. But later, in another article listing the rankings of all Jungkook's songs by Billboard itself, 3D was mentioned that it ranked 2nd this week.
This flaw has led to fans' suspicions that Billboard itself has manipulated the chart's rankings. Fans are asking Billboard to clarify this issue as well as 3D's official rankings:
The Billboard Hot 100 has long been known as the official chart for songs in the United States, released weekly by Billboard magazine. The chart is based on sales (physical and digital), radio play, and streaming in the United States. Therefore, it will show the popularity and popularity of the artist and the song. sing in an area with fierce competition.
BTS in general and the group's solo members in particular have proven their outstanding strength by dominating the Billboard Hot 100 chart many times. Most recently, Jungkook himself also led this chart this week. first debuted with "Seven", adding to the group's dominating record.
Meanwhile, when he released his second single "3D", many people continued to expect that his song would achieve similar success. On the morning of October 10, Billboard announced the results of the latest weekly Hot 100 chart with many surprising rankings. Accordingly, Doja Cat holds the top position with the hot song Paint the Town Red while 3D has "landed" the Hot 100 at number 5.
This achievement helped Jung Kook once again make Kpop history, being the first solo artist to own 2 songs debuting in the top 10 of Billboard Hot 100. 3D was only teased by Jung Kook a few days before its release on stage. Global Citizen Festival stage. Even though there was not much investment in promotion, this song was still enough to help Jung Kook take 5th place - a very difficult record to achieve in the US for a ̾k̾o̾r̾e̾an idol.
With this achievement of 3D, ARMYs can be satisfied and celebrate together, but there is one truth that makes fans unable to help but be angry right after. That's when ARMYs discovered that the rankings of "3D" were very ambiguous because of what Billboard announced!
Specifically, in an article published after the chart was announced, Billboard mentioned the ranking of "3D" as number 2, instead of number 5 in the chart. This leads to fans' doubts about the true ranking of "3D" as well as speculation that Billboard is cheating in this week's Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Fans' anger at the inaccuracy and ambiguity about "3D"'s achievement information has reached such a peak that fans are calling on Billboard to give a final answer to this issue:
- @billboardcharts @billboard This is chart manipulation in broad day light. What is it? Is 3D no. 2 or No. 5?
- The '(For one week)' behind Seven is awfully päṩṩive aggressive of them, so not only are they sloppily manipulating numbers, but they're also downplaying his other achievements because they're mad about it. At least, that's how it seems to me.
- I äṩṩumed it’s actually no.2
- How can we even trust the information @billboardcharts are giving the public?
- We all know its rightful place is #2, but BB decided that was too high so they chose a bunch of sales to throw out until it was at a more modest number
- Hot 100 is so overrated and untrustworthy
- Are they not embaräṩṩed?! Billboard sabotage
- They are the biggest untrustworthy @billboardcharts. Never trust them. They work per day and by weekly rates
- We noticed that '3D (ft. Jack Harlow)' was written as No.2 on BBHOT100 chart on your article, but somehow it was No.5 on BBHOT100 Top 10 Chart. How is this possible? We need your explanation. Thank you.
- huh whattt???are they not tired
- please correct it. This is wrong 3D supposed to debut at No. 2
- id honestly be interested in hearing an explanation for this. what gives?
- the article still says no.2 WHY WAS HE AT NO.5 WHEN THEIR ARTICLE SAYS NO.2 PROTECT KING KOOK
- I'm not even suprised...@billboard @billboardcharts are so ridiculous when it's about BTS. Shame on them.
- They’ve sabotage BTS with each release! They can’t keep getting away with this sнιт! ARMY need to be loud, we can’t let it slide or get used to this discriminatory treatment of BTS. It’s not right, no other artist gets mistreated like this
- can’t believe they haven’t even taken the article down yet, f*ck bb for real
- So how many sales got filtered this time?not even surprised tho
- can they be even more transparent about their little vendetta? this unacceptable.
This is not the first time fans have pointed out dishonesty and chart manipulation of αмєяι¢α's top music chart. In the past, ARMYs have pointed out many cases showing that Billboard continuously changes scoring and data calculation мєтнods to influence the results of BTS's songs. They have also been accused of яα¢ιѕт behavior towards Asian artists because of this!
