Rosé and Bruno Mars’ “APT.” Hits 1.5 Billion Streams on YouTube Music and Ranks No. 4 on Billboard Pop Airplay Chart

“APT.”, the collaboration between BLACKPINK’s Rosé and global superstar Bruno Mars, has achieved historic milestones. Released on October 14, the song has accumulated 1.5 billion streams on YouTube Music and recently reached No. 4 on the Billboard Pop Airplay chart. It holds the highest position ever achieved by a K-pop track on this chart. Previously, BTS’s “Dynamite” had been the best-performing K-pop song, reaching No. 5 in December 2020. As a member of BLACKPINK, Rosé had previously had two songs appear on the chart, but as a solo artist, she is the first to enter the Pop Airplay chart. She also becomes the first K-pop female artist to reach No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. “APT.” remained at No. 1 on both the Billboard Global 200 and Global Exclusively U.S. charts for 11 weeks and continues to hold No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. Since its release on October 18, it has received extensive airplay on major radio stations. KMVQ (99.7 Now) in San Francisco has played the song over 1,400 times so far, while WHTZ (Z100) in New York, KIIS (102.7 KIIS-FM) and SiriusXM’s Hits 1 and TikTok Radio in Los Angeles have also dedicated significant airtime to it. Included in Rosé’s solo album “rosie,” the track once again demonstrates the potential of K-pop artists to succeed in global music markets. After Psy’s “Gangnam Style” reached No. 10 on the Pop Airplay chart in 2012, it was extremely rare for a K-pop song to appear in the upper ranks of such charts. Thus, the success of “APT.” shows that the influence of Hallyu music in mainstream markets is continuing to grow.