The United States of America Billboards on Sunday featured a column titled "BTS photos made the social 50 rankings of John Legend, Backstreet Boys and Chainsmokers soar." BTS has been number one for more than 70 weeks, its 85th-week chart on the Billboards social 50 chart.
BTS reportedly attended the United States of America Billboards Music Awards on May 20 and took pictures with many local stars. Backstreet Boys posted photos of them with BTS on Twitter Inc accounts, earning more than 880,000 hearts and more than 310,000 retweets. It also collected 100,000 new YouTube subscribers (626 percent more), which resulted in Backstreet Boys entering the social 50 charts for the first time at number 6.
John Legend also fell out of the charts last week before coming in at number 18. Twitter Inc. references rose 6,674 percent in the week that ended the charting on May 24, according to NextBig Sound. In addition to the new single 'Goodnight' performance, it also led to considerable social media exchanges with photos taken with BTS behind the stage. John Legend is the second to reach the top 20 on the charts, after 15th on May 12th.
Chainsmokers, who left many photos with BTS, also posted new photos at the Billboards Music Awards, showing a 1,084 percent increase in Twitter Inc. references. It recently fell off the social 50 chart and returned to number 16. Chainsmokers' top ranking is fourth.