RIIZE Just Broke Into the US Top 40 Radio Chart in 2026 — Here's What 'Do Your Dance' Achieved

By the Hallyu101 Editorial Team

Every week, Mediabase's Top 40 radio chart tallies which songs are actually getting spun on mainstream American radio stations — not streamed, not viral on TikTok, but physically played on air by program directors who answer to advertisers, not algorithms. For the tracking week of August 9-15, 2026, exactly one K-pop song made that list: RIIZE's "Do Your Dance," debuting at No. 40. We cross-checked the details against The Korea Herald's August 21 report, allkpop's coverage, and Korean outlets tenasia and Soompi, because radio-chart stories are easy to overstate — a No. 40 debut is a real milestone, but it's also the bottom rung of a 40-slot chart, and we wanted the actual numbers before calling it anything bigger than that.

Quick Facts — Read This First

Bottom line	"Do Your Dance" entered Mediabase's US Top 40 radio chart at No. 40 for the August 9-15, 2026 tracking week — the only K-pop song on the chart that week.
Radio reach	Reported as the most-played K-pop track that week across roughly 130 US radio stations, including "Most Requested Live" and "iHeart KPOP" programming blocks
Parent EP	"II," RIIZE's second mini album, released June 15, 2026 — sold over 1 million copies within four days, the group's fourth million-selling release
Is this a first?	Not confirmed either way in current reporting — treat any "first-ever" framing as unverified until SM Entertainment or a chart authority states it directly
What's next	A Japanese single, "Sunburst," and the fan meeting "Ch. RIIZE: On Air" in Incheon on September 12-13, marking their third debut anniversary

Blurred purple and pink stage spotlights against a dark background, no performers, logos, or text visible, evoking the atmosphere of a K-pop radio and touring moment — Photo via Unsplash

What Actually Happened on the Mediabase Chart

Mediabase is one of the two major services (alongside Nielsen BDS) that US radio programmers, labels, and Billboard itself lean on to track what's actually airing on terrestrial radio, separate from streaming or sales data. Its Top 40 chart — sometimes called the Mainstream Top 40 chart in industry shorthand — measures spins across mainstream pop and rhythmic-leaning stations nationwide. According to The Korea Herald's August 21 report, "Do Your Dance" debuted at No. 40 for the tracking week of August 9-15, and RIIZE was the only K-pop act represented on that week's chart at all. allkpop's coverage, cross-referenced against the same week, added that the song was the most-played K-pop release across roughly 130 American stations, with specific mentions of "Most Requested Live" and "iHeart KPOP" as programming blocks that picked it up. Both outlets agree on the No. 40 debut and the "only K-pop song that week" framing; neither publishes the station-by-station spin counts Mediabase itself sells to subscribers, so we're relying on their reporting of the aggregate figures rather than raw chart data.

It's worth being precise about what a No. 40 debut means and doesn't mean. It's the last spot on a 40-song chart, not a top-10 or even top-20 placement — this is a foothold, not a takeover. But radio charts are notoriously difficult for any non-English act to crack at all, because airplay depends on individual program directors choosing to add a song to rotation, station by station, market by market — a slower and more human-gatekept process than a song going viral on a streaming platform. That's the real headline here: not the number 40 itself, but the fact that a Korean-language single from a group that debuted less than three years ago got picked up by radio programmers across roughly 130 stations in the first place.

From EP "II" to the Radio Chart — How the Timeline Fits Together

"Do Your Dance" didn't arrive out of nowhere; it's the title track off RIIZE's second mini album, "II," which the six-member SM Entertainment group released on June 15, 2026. Per The Korea Herald, StarNews, and Soompi's reporting, "II" sold more than 1 million copies within its first four days on sale — the fourth time a RIIZE release has crossed the million-copy mark, following their 2023 debut single "Get A Guitar," their 2024 EP "Riizing," and their 2025 full-length "Odyssey." The album also topped Japan's Oricon chart and the daily Global K-pop chart on Hanteo, which combines sales data from Korea's Melon, China's Tencent Music, and Japan's Line Music. On top of the commercial numbers, "Do Your Dance" picked up early critical attention from outlets including Billboard, Genius, V Magazine, Clash, and Dork around its June release, and short-form clips built around the song's choreography have racked up more than 100 million views on TikTok, according to allkpop.

Date	Milestone
June 15, 2026	"II" EP and "Do Your Dance" single release
June 19, 2026	"II" confirmed as RIIZE's 4th million-selling release (first-week sales)
Summer 2026	"Do Your Dance" choreo clips pass 100M+ views on TikTok; "II" tops Oricon and Hanteo Global K-pop charts
Aug. 9-15, 2026	"Do Your Dance" enters Mediabase's US Top 40 radio chart at No. 40 — the only K-pop song on the chart that week
Aug. 21, 2026	The Korea Herald and allkpop report the radio chart debut
Sept. 12-13, 2026	"Ch. RIIZE: On Air" fan meeting in Incheon, marking RIIZE's third debut anniversary

Why a Radio Chart Placement Is a Different Kind of Milestone

It's easy to lose track of how many different "charts" K-pop groups place on in a given month — Billboard 200, Hot 100, Hanteo, Gaon, Oricon, Spotify's own rankings — and radio can get treated as just one more line item. It shouldn't be. Streaming and sales charts are driven largely by an act's existing fanbase clicking play or buying an album; radio airplay depends on convincing programmers who have no particular loyalty to K-pop that a song belongs next to whatever else is already in rotation for a general American audience. That's a genuinely different audience to win over, which is why so few K-pop songs have ever done it. Billboard's own Pop Airplay chart, which draws on the same kind of Mediabase-monitored terrestrial radio data, has historically been almost impossible for K-pop to crack: BTS's "Dynamite" remains the highest-charting K-pop song in that chart's history at No. 5, "Butter" reached No. 7, and "Swim" debuted at No. 16. BLACKPINK's only solo, non-collaborative entry, "Pink Venom," peaked at No. 32. PSY's "Gangnam Style" was one of just a handful of K-pop songs to ever reach the Pop Airplay top 10, back in 2012. Those are different charts than the Mediabase Top 40 that RIIZE entered, but they're built on the same underlying reality — radio adds are scarce, and even the biggest K-pop acts in history have mostly failed to get much traction on them. Seen against that backdrop, RIIZE landing anywhere on a Mediabase Top 40 chart, three years into their career, is a meaningfully different kind of validation than another strong streaming week would have been.

Artist / Song	Chart	Peak Position
BTS — "Dynamite"	Billboard Pop Airplay	No. 5 (highest-charting K-pop song in the chart's history)
BTS — "Butter"	Billboard Pop Airplay	No. 7
BTS — "Swim"	Billboard Pop Airplay	No. 16 (debut)
BLACKPINK — "Pink Venom"	Billboard Pop Airplay	No. 32 (group's only solo, non-collaborative entry)
PSY — "Gangnam Style"	Billboard Pop Airplay	Top 10 (2012)
RIIZE — "Do Your Dance"	Mediabase Top 40 (a related but separate chart)	No. 40 (debut, Aug. 9-15, 2026)

Note: RIIZE's entry is on Mediabase's Top 40, not the Billboard Pop Airplay chart the historical comparisons above are drawn from — the two are built on similar radio-monitoring data but are not the same chart.

That said, we want to flag what's still unclear rather than round it up into a bigger claim than the sourcing supports. Neither The Korea Herald nor allkpop states whether this is RIIZE's first-ever US radio chart appearance in any format, and we didn't find a chart authority confirming that framing either — so treat "first" as an open question, not a fact, until SM Entertainment or Mediabase itself says so directly. It's also worth remembering that a No. 40 debut can move in either direction the following week; radio momentum is typically slower to build and slower to fade than a viral streaming spike, but it's not guaranteed to climb.

What's Next for RIIZE

RIIZE isn't slowing down to enjoy this milestone. The Korea Herald reports the group is set to release "Sunburst," their third single in Japan, in the same week the radio chart news broke — part of a parallel push into the Japanese market that's run alongside "II" topping the Oricon chart earlier this summer. Closer to home, RIIZE will mark their third anniversary since debuting in September 2023 with "Ch. RIIZE: On Air," a fan meeting scheduled for September 12-13, 2026, in Incheon. For a group barely three years into its run, the combination of a US radio chart debut, a Japanese single rollout, and an anniversary fan event happening within the same few weeks is a fairly compact snapshot of how quickly a modern K-pop group's international footprint can expand once an EP breaks through commercially the way "II" did.

Frequently Asked Questions

What chart did RIIZE's "Do Your Dance" enter, and at what position?
It debuted at No. 40 on Mediabase's US Top 40 radio chart for the tracking week of August 9-15, 2026, according to The Korea Herald.

Was RIIZE the only K-pop act on the chart that week?
Yes. Both The Korea Herald and allkpop reported that "Do Your Dance" was the only K-pop song on the Mediabase Top 40 chart for that tracking week.

How many radio stations were playing "Do Your Dance"?
allkpop reported it as the most-played K-pop track that week across roughly 130 US radio stations, including programming blocks like "Most Requested Live" and "iHeart KPOP."

What EP is "Do Your Dance" from, and how well did it sell?
It's the title track from RIIZE's second mini album, "II," released June 15, 2026. The EP sold more than 1 million copies within four days, making it RIIZE's fourth million-selling release.

Is this RIIZE's first time on a US radio chart?
That's not confirmed in current reporting. Available sources don't state whether this is a first-ever US radio chart appearance for the group, so we're not claiming it as one.

What is RIIZE doing next?
They're releasing a Japanese single called "Sunburst" and holding a fan meeting, "Ch. RIIZE: On Air," in Incheon on September 12-13, 2026, marking their third debut anniversary.

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