ROSÉ & Bruno Mars’ ‘APT.’ Becomes the Sole Highest Charting K-Pop Hit Ever on Pop Airplay Chart

ROSÉ and Bruno Mars’ “APT.” is now solely the highest charted song by an act prominent in K-pop (Korean pop) on Billboard’s Pop Airplay chart, as it ascends a spot to No. 4 on the latest, Jan. 25-dated ranking.

The song surpasses BTS’ “Dynamite,” which peaked at No. 5 on the radio ranking in December 2020 and remains the only top five hit on the tally by a K-pop group.

“APT.” marks the first Pop Airplay chart entry for ROSÉ as a soloist; star K-pop quartet BLACKPINK has charted two tracks (reaching a No. 21 best) with her as a member.

The Pop Airplay chart ranks songs by weekly plays on over 150 mainstream top 40 radio stations monitored by Mediabase, with data provided to Billboard by Luminate.

A select five K-pop hits have climbed to the Pop Airplay top 10, beginning with PSY’s “Gangnam Style” in 2021. That viral smash and “APT.” are the only such songs billed to solo artists. Here’s a recap:

Pop Airplay chart reporter KMVQ (99.7 Now) San Francisco leads all panelists with more than 1,400 plays to date for “APT.,” dating to the single’s Oct. 18 release. WHTZ (Z100) New York, KIIS (102.7 KIIS-FM) Los Angeles and SiriusXM’s Hits 1 and TikTok Radio have also given the song prominent exposure.

Concurrently, ROSÉ’s “Toxic Till the End” debuts on Pop Airplay at No. 40 (up 50% in plays week-over-week; “APT.” gained by 17%).

“APT.” — from ROSÉ’s album rosie (along with “Toxic Till the End”), her first apart from BLACKPINK — has ruled the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts for 11 weeks each. On the Billboard Hot 100, the song holds at its No. 5 high, with ROSÉ having become the first female K-pop artist to have reached the chart’s top five.

All charts dated Jan. 25 will update Wednesday, Jan. 22 (a day later than usual, due to the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday Monday, Jan. 20) on Billboard.com.