'My Universe': BTS-Coldplay Collab Single Outsells The Rest Of Billboard's Sales Chart Combined
BTS' and Coldplay's collab track, "My Universe," has outsold all the other songs in the top 10 of Billboard's Digital Songs Sales Chart combined.
The track, which came out on Sept. 24, climbed to the No. 1 spot on the chart with close to 92,500 copies sold through downloads and thousands more in physical editions. It sold 127,000 copies across all formats since its release, according to Forbes.
The songs it outsold include Walker Hayes' "Fancy Like," Elton John and Dua Lipa's "Cold Heart" and Ed Sheeran's "Shivers."
Music lovers now seem to favor "My Universe" more than the previous BTS chart-topper "Butter," with the new release selling four times more than the hit summer song. It can be recalled that the latter was hailed as Billboard's Song of the Summer after claiming the No. 1 spot on the charts for over 10 weeks.
BTS and Coldplay previously gave each other a pat on the back after finding out that their joint single debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart.
Coldplay tweeted an image indicating that the track is the current No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and wrote, "Congratulations RM, Jin, SUGA, j-hope, Jimin, V and Jung Kook @bts_twt. Thank you to Coldplayers and ARMY and everyone who made this happen. love c, g, w, j & p."
The "Dynamite" hitmakers shared Coldplay's tweet and in the caption, the group thanked its supporters and the British band, writing, "It's been always an honor to make this all happen with you! Big love and congrats ! Thank you to ARMY and Coldplayers love r, j , s, h, j, j, v."
Fans of both BTS and Coldplay, known collectively as "ARMY" and "Coldplayers," respectively, were quick to react to the posts, with many of them sharing congratulatory messages and citing the good things the collab has done for each group.
Responding to Coldplay's tweet, a BTS fan wrote, "Thank you so much also Coldplay, this collab isn't just abt this achievement but we clearly saw how happy and comfortable the boys were when My Universe was on a roll esp Taehyung & Jin who rly wanted to collab with yall since back then. Tysm and Congratulations Borahae!"
"My Universe" also had an impressive debut on rock and alternative charts this week. It snatched the No. 38 spot on the Alternative Airplay and placed No. 42 on the Rock & Alternative Airplay surveys dated Oct. 2.
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