Will ‘Dynamite’ Become the Long-Awaited Breakthrough for BTS – And K-Pop – At Top 40 Radio?

On this week’s Billboard Hot 100, BTS scores a historic achievement: their new single, “Dynamite” debuts at the top of the chart, giving the group its first career No. 1 and making the seven-member boy band the first all-South Korean group to top the Hot 100.
It’s a huge moment for all of Korean pop music — which had previously reached a No. 2 peak on the Hot 100, with PSY’s “Gangnam Style” in 2012 — and for BTS, who are positively giddy abou