APPLE MUSIC GLOBAL TOP 100 (03.07):
#68 SWIM (+1)
Weekend is here. Playlists for streaming in the comments. We should make sure SWIM doesn’t experience huge drops 🙏🏻
https://t.co/cTfX1Ufs1l
ELLE names "Body to Body" as one of the Best Songs of 2026 so far
— "On their long-awaited comeback album Arirang, BTS honored their Korean heritage and looked to the future. That's clear right from this opening song."
Arirang is actually... an institutional autopsy. it's beyond just the “return of the world's biggest band.”
there is a confession of multiple prisons in the album, a militaristic infrastructure got called out. there is an antagonist. multiple antagonists. a claustrophobic confinement. targeted industry hostility. systemic trauma.
the album functions as a direct psychological decompression from that institutional assimilation🫢
Oh fuck. We have 4 weeks to get Swim back above 50 or it goes recurrent. We've come too far to let BTS down so close to academy voting in Oct. We have to keep them visible to have a chance. PLEASE PUSH like we did in week 1. BTS deserves our very best!