Most Billboard Hot 100 #1 Hits By A K-Pop Group In 2024 (Record By Rose)

The Official Award Of A Certificate

BLACKPINK’s Rosé and pop icon Bruno Mars made history when their electrifying collaboration “APT.” became the highest-charting Billboard Hot 100 hit by a K-pop female artist in 2024, a milestone certified by the K-Pop Records Library on March 27, 2025. Released on October 18, 2024, under The Black Label/Atlantic Records, the pop-punk anthem peaked at No. 3 on the Hot 100, per Billboard, surpassing BLACKPINK’s “Ice Cream” with Selena Gomez (No. 13 in 2020) and marking Rosé as the first K-pop female artist to crack the chart’s top five, fueled by BLINKs and Mars’ global fanbase.

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“APT.,” the lead single from Rosé’s debut solo album rosie, debuted at No. 8 on the Hot 100 with 25 million streams and 14,000 sales, per Variety, climbing to No. 3 by November 2024. While no K-pop act reached No. 1 in 2024 Kendrick Lamar led soloists with three No. 1s, per Billboard“APT.” dominated globally, ruling the Billboard Global 200 and Global Excl. U.S. charts for 19 weeks, the longest for any K-pop track, with 224.5 million peak streams, per Billboard. Posts on X in October 2024 celebrated its 13.32 million US streams in four days, topping Spotify’s global and US charts. By March 2025, “APT.” had amassed 2.8 billion Spotify streams, per RouteNote.

The K-Pop Records Library awarded Rosé and Bruno Mars a certificate, honoring “APT.”’s No. 3 peak as a trailblazing achievement for K-pop women and a testament to the genre’s soaring US influence in 2024.