Stereogum’s Number Ones Column Revisits BTS’s “Butter” and the Frustration It Provoked

In a candid entry for his long-running Billboard retrospective, Tom Breihan unpacks the anger he felt when BTS’s second English single debuted at number one, and the real consequences of airing those thoughts publicly.

The latest installment of Stereogum’s “The Number Ones” column confronts BTS’s “Butter.” Published this morning, the piece covers the song that topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 2021, but the real story sits in Breihan’s admission of his

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