UK Army Streaming

Do you want to help stream for BTS and the members but find the idea of streaming daunting and confusing? Don't worry, we're here to make it simple.UK Army Streaming is here to help you stream BTS’ music and break new ground in the UK charts.Our resources are optimised for the UK chart rules but anyone is welcome to use our info and playlists to help them stream.First off, what is streaming? Well it just means "listening to music".
Here is a simple, basic guide for how to get started.

Depending on which streaming platform you use, you'll need slightly different tips and tricks. Please click the button below for more detailed info on your specific streaming platform(s) as well as playlists.

For those who are interested, we also have a "Chart Updates" section below, where you can find out more about how the UK Charts work plus daily chart updates for the latest comeback!

Artist Chart Booster Playlists!

Let's boost streams for the PTD Live album and get BTS rising up the Artist Charts!These playlists have been curated to boost streams of the top 16 tracks likely to count for the Official Charts AND give extra streams to BTS tracks 💜We have added Fire and Dope focused playlists to help increase the overall avg streams of the album.Stream between your queues...
✅️ 1x Fire focused playlist
✅️ 1x Dope focused playlist
✅️ 1x Artist Chart BoosterNote: Each playlist has 2x streams of the top 16 most streamed tracks. Please aim to stream PTD Live album 10x a day.

Amazon Music

Apple Music

Spotify

Tidal

YouTube

YouTube Music

Comeback Ready Checklist

PERMISSION TO DANCE ON STAGE - LIVE

Countdown to PERMISSION TO DANCE ON STAGE - LIVE:
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📝Comeback prep checklist📝

✅ Complete all tasks on this page, and you are comeback ready 💪Task 1✅Pre-save the album on all UK platforms (Spotify, Apple Music - NOT ITUNES, Tidal, YouTube music, deezer, Amazon Music)🚨DO NOT PRE-ORDER ON ITUNES🚨

“Permission To Dance On Stage – LIVE” Album is now the 3rd (+1) most pre-saved album on Spotify’s Countdown Chart!If everyone pre-saves, it could become the first album by an Asian Act to go #1 on the Chart, but there's another korean album currently ahead of us. It only takes 1 click and costs no money.Please get all your army moots involved 💜

Task 2 (optional)🚨PHYSICALS WONT COUNT FOR THE UK CHARTS🚨Because of this there isn't a need to pre-order the physicals.HOWEVERIf you are planning to purchase a physical of the album anyway (for your own collection perhaps), please pre-order physicals from a Hanteo certified shop.What this does is count your purchase towards the end of year award shows in Korea. So your purchase can help BTS win best group 🔥🔥BTS UK store is not Hanteo certified so opt for one of the links below instead 👍

Task 3✅If you are in a position to be able to, please donate to the UK funding base. This makes it possible for other UK ARMY to buy the album 💜You can donate through PayPal or KoFi.Please remember they only accept 'friends and family' and please specify in PayPal notes what the donation is for. For example, 'For PTD Live'.

Task 4✅️ Vote/collect on voting apps daily on all current votings while you wait 👇👇

Task 5✅ Please spread the news of the upcoming release and this carrd to all your UK ARMY moots, in all your group chats and on all social media platforms!!Let's give Bangtan another success on the UK charts 💜💪

Streaming Platforms

Current Streaming Strategy

The next comeback is for the album release PERMISSION TO DANCE ON STAGE - LIVE which will be released 5am UK Time on 18/07/2025. Here are some key points for streaming on any platform.This is an album release so we will be focusing on top to bottom streaming on the album as our strategy.The album should be eligible for the UK Charts but only the LIVE versions will count towards our charts. The streams of studio versions of these tracks WILL NOT be combined for the UK Charts.Only the most streamed 16 tracks WILL be counted for the UK album charts. So, during comeback week, once the top 16 tracks become clear we will be releasing playlists to help boost these tracks.We won't be having a Title Track (or TT for short) for this release as live singles dont appear to count for the UK singles chart. So the focus is the album charts.INTERACT WITH YOUR PLAYLISTS EVERY 2-3 HOURS.It's important to make sure your volume is over 50%, you can plug in headphones if you need.Include Non-BTS/Non-Kpop songs to help the song to be added to more playlists and reach more of the general public. This also helps our streams to not be deleted at the end of the month!

Queue Guides for PTD - LIVE

While streaming the album top to bottom it can be helpful to use queues so you don't need to play everything manually.Here's a guide for making your own queues for PERMISSION TO DANCE ON STAGE - LIVE that include recent releases and solo projects.You can also find some milestone/charting songs to include in your album playlists on your platforms page below.

We also create pre-made playlists every comeback for every streaming platform.For playlists and platform specific info, please follow the links below.

Spotify

Playlists to Copy

Please COPY and CUSTOMISE these playlists to your own library.Tip: This can be done on either desktop or mobile.We've added a short video tutorial below to help.Copy a playlist:
1. Open the playlist you want to copy and select the 3 dots under the title.
2. Right-click and choose "Add to Playlist"
3. Select "New Playlist".
4. Choose your own title, make it unique to yourself or use genre buzzwords that go with the mood of the song eg. "New Pop Faves", "Hip/Hop Vibes" etc.
5. Add a few of your own favourite Non-Kpop songs to add variety and keep your streaming unique to you.

Tips for Spotify

Spotify streams also count for:
- Korean Music Shows, like mcountdown
- end of year Korean Awards like MAMAs and MMAs!!In order for our streams to count for Spotify we need our streaming to be unique and varied.Don't worry too much about the details though, because if you are following our templates and our copy and customising rules for our playlists then your streams will count!Spotify is available either free or as a premium account, premium allows you to listen ad free and also skip as many songs as you like.

How to Make a Spotify Playlist

*You'll need to make Spotify playlists on Desktop.We've added a short video tutorial below to help. Along will some helpful tips. 👇👇Tip #1 - For Spotify you need to have 2-5 "filler" songs before you repeat the same track again, playing the same track over and over with any filler songs is called looping and is a BIG NO NO!Tip #2 - To reorder songs, simply drag and drop them to the position you want.

Current Spotify Milestone Songs

YouTube MV

Playlists to Copy

Please COPY and CUSTOMISE these playlists to your own library.Tip: This can be done on either desktop or mobile, but is easiest to do through the YouTube Music App rather than the original YouTube App.We've added a short video tutorial below to help.Copy a playlist:
1. Open the playlist you want to copy and select the 3 dots under the title.
2. Right-click and choose "Save to Playlist"
3. Select "New Playlist".
4. Choose your own title, make it unique to yourself or use genre buzzwords that go with the mood of the song eg. "New Pop Faves", "Hip/Hop Vibes" etc.
5. Add a few of your own favourite Non-Kpop songs to add variety and keep your streaming unique to you.

Tips For YouTube

YouTube is probably the most important and useful streaming platform we have!!Not only do music video views from YouTube count towards the UK Charts, they also count towards:
- The Billboard charts
- Korean Music Shows like MCountdown
- End of year awards like MAMAs and MMAs
- Breaking YouTube RecordsIt is also a free service although you can opt for a premium account to avoid ads.FYI: MV stands for "music video".

Manual Streaming For YouTube

The fastest way for your views to be added is by watching the video "manually". This is when you search for each video yourself, without using a playlist or queue.
Important - It is recommended to stream a MV Manually for the first 24 hours of its release.After the first 24 hours it is perfectly fine to use playlists and queues.When using a playlist it can take from 48-72 hours for you views to be counted. This time is shortened if the playlist is turned into a queue (when using a playlist, click the 3 dots next to any video and selecting add to queue).To help make manual streaming easier, we have made a template for your MV manual streaming. 👇👇

Just click on the links in the template for each video and work your way, one by one, through the template. This will give you 10 plays of the newest MV.IMPORTANT - Make sure you only have 1 YouTube tab open at a time for your views to be counted

How to Make a MV Playlist for YouTube

There are a few ways you can make a MV playlist For YouTube, choose the method you find easiest.Method #1The Queue Method:
The first playlist making method is to create a queue on YouTube and then save that queue as a playlist.
The account @JRJ-OT7 on YouTube (a great ARMY account to follow) has created a really helpful video to show you how to do this:

Method #2YouTube Music Method:YouTube Music and the original YouTube site are connected. If you have an account for YouTube (whether its a free or premium account) you already have a YouTube Music account with the same log-in details.Making and rearranging playlists is a lot easier on the YouTube Music App and any changes you make to playlists on YouTube Music will appear on your YouTube MV account.Tip: This method works best on your mobile device.We've added a short video tutorial below to help.How to Make a MV Playlist with YouTube Music App:
1. On the original YouTube app, select the 3 dots next to the title of a video.
2. Select the Save to Playlist option.
3. Repeat steps 1 & 2 for every video you want to include in your playlist.
4. Open the playlist you are working on, in the YouTube Music App.
5. Click on the any MV that you want multiple plays of in the playlist, and click the Save button under the video.
6. Select the playlist you are making.
7. At the bottom of the screen a little notice will pop up, click the Add Anyway option.
8. To edit the order of the playlist you can select the Pen tool under the playlist title and drag and drop the MVs into an order you like.(Remember to keep at least 3-4 videos between having the same video play again so views don't get deleted)You will then find your playlist on your YouTube MV app in your playlists.Important: YouTube won't let you add multiple of the same video to a playlist but YouTube Music WILL

How to Make an Audio Playlist:We find it easiest to make YouTube Playlists on the mobile app.We've added a short video tutorial below to help. Along will some helpful tips. 👇👇Tip #1 - To ensure the songs being added are the audio versions, and not the video, make sure it has the album/single cover as the icon and not the MV thumbnail.Tip #2 - If a song is already present in the playlist an alert will appear at the bottom of the screen, click the blue Add Anyway option.Tip #3 - To edit the order of the playlist you can select the Pen tool under the playlist title and drag and drop the songs into an order you like.Tip #4 - Remember to keep at least 2-5 songs between having the same song play again.

Current YouTube Milestones Music Videos

Apple Music

Playlists to Copy

Please COPY and CUSTOMISE these playlists to your own library.We've added a short video tutorial below to help. Along will some helpful tips. 👇👇Tip #1 - On an Apple Device you can copy a playlist from another platform, eg. Spotify, to Apple Music using the "Song Shift" App.Tip #2 -This can be done on either desktop or mobile.Copy a playlist:
1. Open the playlist you want to copy and select the 3 dots next to the title.
2. Right-click and choose "Add to Playlist"
3. Select "New Playlist".
4. Choose your own title, make it unique to yourself or use genre buzzwords that go with the mood of the song eg. "New Pop Faves", "Hip/Hop Vibes" etc.
5. Add a few of your own favourite Non-Kpop songs to add variety and keep your streaming unique to you.

Tips for Apple Music

Apple Music is the only streaming platform (along with iTunes sales) that counts towards the Big Top 40 Chart.The Big Top 40 isn't the UK's Official Chart but it is a chart aired on Capital and Heart radio shows.Doing well on this chart means a lot more radio play, this makes the chart a massive opportunity to reach millions of people as well as the THRILL of hearing Bangtan on UK radio!!

How to Make a Playlist for Apple Music

Making playlists for Apple Music is easiest on a mobile device.The method of making playlists is the same for video and audio playlists. We suggest making separate playlists for the video and the audio, as the app/site streams better this way.How to create a new playlist:We've added a short video tutorial below to help. Along will some helpful tips. 👇👇

Tip #1 - If you are adding a song that is already in the playlist, an alert will pop up, make sure you select Add Again.

Current Apple Music Charting Songs

Amazon Music

Playlists to Copy

There currently isn't a way to directly copy someone elses playlist on the Amazon Music mobile app, so you can, of course, play directly from our playlists.If you can, though, please use an App like Soundiiz, SongShift or Playlisty to copy a playlist from another platform, eg. Spotify.
You can find our pre-made Spotify playlists are also linked above 👆👆

How to Make an Amazon Music Playlist

You'll need to make Amazon Music playlists on Desktop.How to create a new playlist:
1. Go to your library and then playlists and select create new.
2. Search for the title of the song you want to add to your playlist.
3. Right-click the 3 dots next to the song's title and select the "Add to Playlist" button.
4. If the song already exists in the playlist, then, when prompted, select "Add Anyway" to add the song multiple times.
5. Repeat this process as many times as needed to finish your playlist.How to edit an existing playlist:
This can be done on the mobile app1. Open the Amazon Music app and go to the playlist you want to edit.
2. Tap the 3 dots or the edit icon next to the playlist name.
3. Select "Edit" to open the playlist editing mode.
4. from here you can delete songs and drag songs to the desired position in the playlist.
5. Tap "Done" to save the changes.

Milestone/Charting

YouTube Music

Playlists to Copy

Please COPY and CUSTOMISE these playlists to your own library.Tip: This can be done on either desktop or mobile, but is easiest to do through the YouTube Music App.We've added a short video tutorial below to help.Copy a playlist:
1. Open the playlist you want to copy and select the 3 vertical dots under the title.
2. Right-click and choose "Save to Playlist"
3. Select "New Playlist".
4. Choose your own title, make it unique to yourself or use genre buzzwords that go with the mood of the song eg. "New Pop Faves", "Hip/Hop Vibes" etc.
5. Add a few of your own favourite Non-Kpop songs to add variety and keep your streaming unique to you.

Tips for YouTube Music

Some important things for you to know before streaming on YouTube Music:- You can use YouTube Music for free or get a premium account.- It is still connected to your YouTube account, so you cannot stream on YouTube and YouTube Music simultaneously. If you do you views/streams won't count on EITHER platform.- You can stream both an audio and video version of the song on YouTube Music. This gives you 10x plays for both daily, so twice as many as an audio only platform like Spotify. The only thing to keep in mind is that the audio and video versions don't play well on the same playlist. So, as you'll see, we always do an audio only playlist and a MV playlist separately.- When using an MV playlist on YouTube Music, make sure the switch is on "Video" rather than song, as shown in the picture below.

How to Make a Playlist on YouTube Music

There are 2 types of playlists you can make on YouTube Music, an audio playlist and a video playlist (sometimes called an MV playlist).We find it easiest to make YouTube Playlists on the mobile app.We've added a short video tutorial below to help. Along will some helpful tips. 👇👇How to Make an Audio Playlist:Tip #1 - To ensure these are the audio versions and not the video, make sure it has the album/single cover as the icon and not the MV thumbnail.Tip #2 - if a song is already present in the playlist an alert will appear at the bottom of the screen, click the blue Add Anyway option. (if you don't do this the song won't be added again).Tip #3 - To edit the order of the playlist you can select the Pen tool under the playlist title and drag and drop the songs into an order you like.Tip #4 - Remember to keep at least 2-5 songs between having the same song play again.

How to Make a Video Playlist:
1. On the original YouTube app, select the 3 dots next to the title of a video.
2. Select the Save to Playlist option.
3. Repeat steps 1 & 2 for every video you want to include in your playlist.
4. Open the YouTube Music App.
5. Click on the any MV that you want multiple plays of in the playlist, and click the Save button under the video.
6. Select the playlist you are making
7. At the bottom of the screen a little notice will pop up, click the Add Anyway option.
8. To edit the order of the playlist you can select the Pen tool under the playlist title and drag and drop the MVs into an order you like.(Remember to keep at least 3-4 videos between having the same video play again so views don't get deleted).Tip: any playlist you make on YouTube Music will also appear in your library on the original YouTube app, so you don't need to make 2 sets of playlists if you are planning to use both platforms.

YouTube Music Milestone Songs

Tidal Music

Playlists to Copy

Please COPY and CUSTOMISE these playlists to your own library.Tip: This can be done on either desktop or mobile app.We've added a short video tutorial below to help.Copy a playlist:
1. Open the playlist you want to copy and select the 3 dots under the title.
2. Click (or Right-click on the desktop) and choose "Add to Playlist"
3. Select "+ Create Playlist".
4. Choose your own title, make it unique to yourself or use genre buzzwords that go with the mood of the song eg. "New Pop Faves", "Hip/Hop Vibes" etc.
5. Add a few of your own favourite Non-Kpop songs to add variety and keep your streaming unique to you.

How to Make a Playlist on Tidal

We find it easiest to make and re-order Tidal playlists on the mobile appThe method of making playlists is the same for video and audio playlists. We suggest making separate playlists for the video and the audio, as the app/site streams better this way.We've added a short video tutorial below to help. Along will some helpful tips. 👇👇Tip #1 - If you are adding a song that is already in the playlist a pop up aler will appear, select Add on the alert.Tip #2 - To re-order an existing playlist, select edit option under the playlist title, then drag and drop tracks you want to move by using the three-line icon next to each track.

Tidal Charting Songs

UK Charts Update

UK Charts Explained!There are two charts in the UK, the Big Top 40 and The Official Charts.Big Top 40
The tracking week is from Saturday to Sunday and only takes into account streams from Apple Music and sales from iTunes. It is not the main chart in the UK.The Official Charts
This is the main chart in the UK! The tracking period for the Singles and Album chart is from Friday to Thursday and takes into account digital sales, physical sales and streams.Singles Chart
100 premium streams = 1 sale/unit
600 free streams = 1 sale/unitHowever, unlike most country charts, we have a streaming cap. Only 10x streams of a track per account per day counts for the chart.This is why remixes can have a HUGE impact on our charts. Each remix counts as a seperate track so can also be streamed 10x daily and these streams will be combined with the original track for the final sales tally.MVs also count as seperate tracks! As well as the MV, lyric videos and performance videos uploaded on artist channels (Hybe Labels & BangtanTV) will count for our charts.Album Chart
1000 streams = 1 sale/unitOnly the top 16 most streamed tracks are included in chart calculations. The top 2 songs are then downweighted to the average of the next most streamed 14 songs. This is why it's important to stream the whole album.MVs also count towards album streams so stream all available MVs alongside the album.The streaming cap still applies so only 10x streams of each track on the album per account per day will count towards the charts.

PTD on Stage Live Album Chart UpdatesOfficial Charts UpdatesMidweek Update Chart
Top 100 only. Updated on Monday after 6pm
🚨 NO ENTRY 🚨
We need to increase streams for the WHOLE album. Streams for the top 2 most streamed tracks (PTD & ON) will be downweighted to the avg of the next 14. Please use our Fire and Dope focused playlists to boost our overall avg streams! Tap the Artist Chart Booster button at the top of the page to find them.Sales Flash
Top 40 only. Updated on Wednesday after 6pm
🚨 NO ENTRY 🚨Streaming Platform Chart Updates
Updated daily - last update 25th July 9.30AMApple Music
Top Albums
NO ENTRY All Genre 🚨
#59 Pop ⬇️
#4 K-Pop ⬇️Top Kpop Songs
#66 PTD ⬇️
#135 ON ⬇️
#137 Fire ⬇️
#145 Dope ⬇️
#149 Blood, Sweat and Tears ⬇️18 songs are charting within the top 200, 4 songs are OUT 🚨Amazon Music
#59 Top New Albums ⬇️Deezer
Out of Top Album ChartSpotify
Top Artist Chart UK
#185 BTS ⬇️Tidal
No updates yetYouTube
Daily streams for BTS
July 18th: 121,009 ⭐️
19th: 113,807 ⬇️
20th: 105,217 ⬇️
21st: 118,601 ⬆️
22nd: 115,252 ⬇️
23rd: 107,769 ⬇️
We need on avg 150K streams a day to re-enter the Artist Chart on YouTube.

BTS on the UK Charts

BTS have had 23 entries on the UK Official Singles Chart and 11 entries on the Official Albums Chart.13 singles have entered the Official Singles Streaming Chart (this chart takes into account audio and MV streams) and 18 entries on the Official Video Streaming Chart.9 albums have entered the Official Album Streaming Chart.Above are their current peaks on the Official Singles and Album Chart as well as the Official Streaming Charts.Note: The album chart rules changed in 2020 making physical albums with random PCs ineligible. MOTS 7 had a UK exclusive CD with no random inclusions. Since 2020, we have charted albums without physicals. Proof debuted at #8 and remained on the chart for 4 weeks.For the full breakdown of BTS performance across all the Official Charts categories, you can check out their artist page - https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/48781/bts/

Past Comebacks Chart Performance

Killin It Girl on the UK Charts

Killin It Girl is Hobi's longest charting song with two weeks on the UK chart! It debuted at #30 with 12,453 units, a new peak for j-hope, and was the highest new entry that week.In its second week, it dropped down to #81. We don't have exact units for KIG in week two but the song at #76 did 6,991 units.Across both weeks our strength was in video streaming specifically on YouTube. We had 22 chart eligible versions to stream on YT making it possible for premium accounts to stream up to two units a day! The MV debuted at #25 on Weekly Top MVs and #32 on Weekly Top Songs (329K streams). It spent a second week on Weekly Top Songs at #92.We were pretty stable on Amazon Music and Apple Music. KIG stayed in the top 10 of the Amazon New Tracks chart during debut week and both versions of KIG stayed in the top 5 of Top Kpop Songs on Apple Music.

Killin' It Girl Official Chart UpdatesWeek 2
Official Charts
#81 Singles Chart🥳
#19 Singles Sales Chart🥳Midweek Update
#76 KIG ⬇️
Top 100 only. Tracking from Friday - Sunday.Week 1
Official Charts
#30 Singles Chart🥳
#25 Video Streaming Chart🥳
#1 Singles Sales Chart🥳Top 40 Sales Flash
#28 KIG ⭐️🎉
Top 40 only. Tracking Friday - Wednesday. Announced Wednesday after 6pmTrending Chart
#8 KIG ⭐️
The Official Trending Chart is based on the first four sales days of each chart week (that's Friday to Monday) and ranks those songs showing week-on-week growth on the Official Top 100 Singles Chart.Midweek Update
#26 KIG ⭐️
Top 100 only. Tracking from Friday - Sunday. Announced Monday after 6pmFirst Look
NO ENTRY 🚨
Top 20 only. Tracking from Friday - Saturday. Announced Sunday after 6pmFor the full breakdown of his performance across all the Official Charts categories, you can check out his artist page - https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/56528/j-hope/.