Curated By: Dishya Sharma
Last Updated: December 12, 2023, 08:43 IST
BTS’ Spring Day tops US iTunes chart as member enlist for military.
BTS’ Spring Day has beaten Maria Carey’s All I Want For Christmas is You for the top spot on the US iTunes chart.
BTS fans are heartbroken to the see the Tannies leave for their enlistment. So much so that they not only streamed Spring Day in high numbers as they prepared for RM, V, Jimin and Jungkook enlist but ended up helping it making history. Spring Day, one of BTS’ songs from their discography which was released six years ago, dethroned Mariah Carey’s iconic Christmas song, All I Want For Christmas Is You. The Christmas song, which released in 1994, reemerges every December and rules the top spot of US iTunes every year.
However, this year, heartbroken BTS fans managed to surpass the streams of the Christmas song and helped Spring Day record its first ever top spot on the chart after six long years. Popular music chart tracker, Chart Data, revealed on X (previously known as Twitter), “BTS’s ‘Spring Day’ has reached #1 on US iTunes for the first time ever.”
BTS fans are feeling bittersweet about the milestone. “Spring Day dethroning All I Want for Christmas is You two weeks before christmas because armys are sad is insane,” a fan wrote. “
Spring Day overtook All I Want For Christmas, do you know how insane that is— j⁷ | 아포방포 | taegi’s wife busy (@taegi_queen) December 12, 2023
you guys don’t understand how crazy it is for Spring Day to chart in December, ‘all i want for christmas is you’ has a choke hold on everyone for the holidays pic.twitter.com/KpOKofUovK— ⁷ (@taetaefeeds) December 12, 2023
spring day dethroning all i want for christmas is you just two weeks before christmas and reaching #1 in US itunes, a 6 years old song did that. just because armys are sad this is crazy. that 2025 comeback is going to be insane and massive! pic.twitter.com/mYoYahmrFZ— sanjida⁷ | we will wait for you, bts! (@myg7kosmos) December 12, 2023
Getting Spring Day to #1 on iTunes for the first time EVER directly after the last of the tannies enlisted/said their goodbyes… this is how you know ARMYs truly take BTS’s messages to heart. Group hug, y’all. pic.twitter.com/sEJoEH3MmS— 134340 miles from sanity⁷ (@naija0329) December 12, 2023
how to explain how meaningful it is that spring day reached #1 on us iTunes for the first time ever the same day all the members enlist. our way to tell them we will wait for them until the spring days come again pic.twitter.com/LoYPBx0nn0— outroseokss⁷ (ꪜ) ³ᴰ (@callmebyyourjin) December 12, 2023
for people who don’t understand the sheer context—every year during december, it’s nearly impossible to surpass all i want for christmas is you. that’s why artists don’t usually prefer releasing albums then. we did it for a 6 year old song because we’re sad. this is CRAZY. pic.twitter.com/AQeWW1uUhR— Yet To Come Ⓢ⁷ | future’s gonna be okay (@im_yet_to_come) December 12, 2023
As of today, December 12, all of BTS members have enlisted for compulsory military training. While Jin had enlisted in December 2022, J-Hope, Suga, RM, V, Jimin and Jungkook enlisted this year.
