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BTS makes history as the only K-pop group featured in Apple Music’s “Top 500 Songs of the Decade.”

Apple Music has just wrapped up counting down its special “10 Years of Apple Music: Top Songs” playlist, a one-off chart that ranks the 500 most-streamed tracks since it launched in 2015.
Once everything shook out, the global super-group BTS came through as the only K-pop act in the playlist’s elite Top 100, thanks to their 2020 smash hit “Dynamite,” which shot to No. 34.

The playlist is part of Apple Music’s 10th anniversary celebrations. Apple Music Radio revealed 100 songs every day for five days, starting on 1 July and finishing on 5 July, before releasing the full chart for audiences everywhere.

Apple says the chart consists of “pure, global streams” in all the countries that the service operates, offering a clean look back at the platform’s first decade.

“Dynamite” was not the only submission. BTS’s 2021 single “Butter” came in at No. 252, placing the septet as the only K‑pop group to place more than one song on the regularly daylong songs leaderboard.

They take the metric and its two spots for Korea, from one act, which means that the K-Pop group did have listening activity beyond the common, release-week spike.

For those tracking the industries, the Apple rankings are further evidence that BTS occupy an exceptional category of their own. Not only are they opening doors for Korean artists, they are smashing entire walls down, establishing industry-level benchmarks that many mainstream pop artists have not been able to live up to.

The outcomes also reinforce the importance of streaming longevity. While spikes on viral charts are important, songs that people are still playing years later have the most substantial long-term impact.

Apple Music’s decade playlist is a unique, elevator‑one‑time experience, but as the company hinted, it could update the list each year starting in 2026. If that is the case, BTS has every chance to move higher, especially with a full‑group return expected next year.

For now, “Dynamite” shines as the brightest K‑pop spark in Apple’s first ten-year time capsule while “Butter” shows that light pulls are anything but an isolated one‑hit flame.

BTS isn’t merely part of the conversation; they own the K‑pop banner all by themselves in Apple’s most-played history.

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