The viral hit song “APT.” by BLACKPINK’s Rosé and Bruno Mars rose to No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
“APT.” was released in October and continued its popularity in the new year.
According to Billboard, “APT.” rose to No. 5 from No. 34 on the Jan. 11-dated Hot 100 chart, its highest ranking on the chart to date. It debuted at No. 8 on the Hot 100 in November.
Rosé and Bruno Mars (Instagram)
The Jan. 11, 2025-dated Billboard Hot 100 chart showing "APT." at No. 5 (Billboard)
With this, Rosé became the first female K-pop artist to reach the top five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
“The song became BLACKPINK member Rosé’s first top 10 as a soloist, as she made history as the first female artist prominent in K-pop (Korean pop) to hit the top 10. She now, therefore, becomes the first such artist to reach the top five,” Billboard reported.
The Billboard Hot 100 chart is based on “all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations.”
In addition, “APT.” returned to the No. 1 spots on the Jan. 11-dated Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. US charts.
“ROSÉ and Bruno Mars’ “APT.” tops the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts for a milestone 10th week apiece,” according to Billboard.
The two charts “rank songs based on streaming and sales activity culled from more than 200 territories around the world, as compiled by Luminate. The Global 200 is inclusive of worldwide data and the Global Excl. U.S. chart comprises data from territories excluding the United States.”
On the Billboard Global 200 chart, “APT.” rose to No. 1 from No. 5 “with 144.8 million streams (up 3% week-over-week) and 19,000 sold (up 11%) worldwide Dec. 27, 2024-Jan. 2, 2025. The track is the fifth to top the Global 200 for double-digit weeks, joining Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ (19 weeks, since December 2020; it falls from No. 1 to No. 27 on the latest list), Harry Styles’ ‘As It Was’ (15 weeks, 2022), Miley Cyrus’ ‘Flowers’ (13 weeks, 2023) and The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber’s ‘Stay’ (11 weeks, 2021).”
On the Billboard Global Excl. US chart, “APT.” is also No. 1 “with 125.7 million streams (up 1%) and 12,000 sold (up 6%) outside the U.S. Dec. 27-Jan. 2. It becomes the fourth song to dominate for 10 or more weeks, joining Carey’s ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ (14 weeks) and Cyrus’ ‘Flowers’ and Styles’ ‘As It Was’ (13 each).”
"APT." is No. 1 on the Jan. 11-dated Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. US charts (Billboard)