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BTS Jimin Breaks New Ground for Korean Songs as a Solo Artist and Elevates K-Pop’s Status.
BTS Jimin has made history as a solo artist by breaking new ground for Korean songs and elevating the status of K-Pop.
Jimin’s title song ‘Like Crazy’ from his solo album ‘FACE’ surpassed 850 million streams on Spotify, the world’s largest music site, on February 3, 317 days after its release.
This is the fastest streaming record ever for a Korean song, and continues to be the K-pop solo song and Korean song that achieved the most streaming (777 million) on Spotify in 2023 after being released on March 24 last year. So we are creating a new history.
In addition, the English version of ‘Like Crazy’ included in the same album exceeded 300 million streams, and the pre-released song ‘Set Me Free Part 2’ recorded more than 276 million, with each song being loved and released after enlistment. The digital single ‘Closer Than This’ is also enjoying popularity with 80 million streams.
In particular, according to the year-end campaign ‘Lapped’ announced by Spotify, Jimin, who ranked first as the most loved artist by Korean listeners last year, ranked first for the 213th time on the Korean Spotify Daily Artist Chart on February 3, becoming the first solo singer in the chart’s history. He still maintains his throne by setting the only record.
Meanwhile, Jimin not only made a significant mark in the history of Korean pop music by becoming the first Korean solo singer to top the Billboard main single chart ‘Hot 100’, but also set two SoundCloud records for his self-composed song ‘Promise’ among the three Guinness World Records he holds, as well as K. He is gaining fame as a representative K-pop singer on various platforms, including the fastest pop solo artist to surpass 1 billion streams on Spotify.
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