BTS’s ‘Dynamite’ Is Already Eligible For A Gold Certification From The RIAA

BTS has a lot to celebrate this week. The Korean pop septet’s new single “Dynamite” debuts at No. 1 on this week’s Billboard Hot 100, marking their first ruler on the chart and the first song by an all-South Korean group to hit No. 1. 

But the good times don’t stop there. In less than two weeks, “Dynamite” is eligible for a gold certification from the RIAA for sales and streams exceeding 500,000 units, according to Chart Data. 

“Dynamite” marks BTS’s fastest song to reach the 500,000 mark in the United States. The disco-tinged single sold a whopping 265,000 first-week downloads, the biggest digital sales week since Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do” debuted with 353,000 downloads in September of 2017, Billboard reports. Its total first-week sales amount to 300,000 after factoring in limited edition vinyl and cassettes.

“Dynamite” also performed excellently on streaming services. The track debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard Streaming Songs chart with 33.9 million first-week U.S. streams and scored the biggest global Spotify debut of 2020 with 7.778 million first-day streams. 

The RIAA has not yet awarded a gold certification to “Dynamite,” but the track will likely be submitted and awarded promptly now that it’s eligible. When that happens, it will mark BTS’s sixth RIAA-certified track. Two songs—“DNA” and “Fake Love”—have been certified gold, while three others—“Mic Drop,” “Boy with Luv” and “Idol”—have been certified platinum. 

Given the stratospheric success of “Dynamite” thus far, a platinum certification seems inevitable—and it could even become BTS’s first multiplatinum single in the United States. 

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