SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – MAY 21: Suga of BTS attends a press conference for BTS’s new digital single … [+] ‘Butter’ at Olympic Hall on May 21, 2021 in Seoul, South Korea. BTS singer Suga sees four fan-favorite songs return to the American iTunes chart, including “Snooze,” “Polar,” “The Last,” and “Haegeum,” along with his album D-Day. (Photo by The Chosunilbo JNS/Imazins via Getty Images)
BTS’s Suga is not working on his music career at the moment—or, at least, it’s not his focus. The world-famous musician is otherwise preoccupied with his military enlistment in his home country of South Korea, along with most of the other singers in the boy band. While he hasn’t released anything new for more than a year, Suga is still rising on iTunes in America—and with several tunes at once.
The singer—under his Agust D moniker, which he uses when releasing music outside of BTS—claims four spaces on the list of the top-selling tracks on iTunes in the U.S. All of them are older cuts that fans have begun buying in large enough numbers to help them place among more current smashes and just-dropped new tunes.
Suga’s highest-rising hit on iTunes at the time of writing is “Polar,” which lands at No. 22. That tune was never selected as a single, but was featured on his most recent solo album D-Day.
The singer scores a pair of top 40 wins on the ranking, as “The Last” narrowly breaks into the important region as well. That song, taken from his debut solo project Agust D, currently sits at No. 37.
Another cut is close to reaching the top 40 arena, and it might do so in the coming hours. “Snooze,” Suga’s collaboration with Woosung and late composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, reappears on the list at No. 53.
“Snooze” is already a hit in America at the moment on one Billboard chart. The tune currently lives inside the top 10 on the World Digital Song Sales roster, thanks to renewed interest from fans in the country and a buying spree that took place more than a week ago.
Suga’s lowest-ranking win on iTunes at the moment is “Haegeum,” which can be found at No. 101, at present. That song served as the second single from the singer-songwriter’s D-Day. Released in the spring of 2023, it eventually peaked at No. 58 on the Hot 100.
D-Day is also back on the iTunes albums list in America. The full-length returns to the sales roster at No. 61. When it was brand new, it sold much, much better, and it once climbed as high as No. 2 on the Billboard 200, thanks largely to a large number of purchases.
