BTS’ Jimin ‘dominates the US’, enters Billboard’s longest-running K-pop solo album chart for 52 weeks
BTS’s Jimin’s first solo album “FACE” continues to dominate the Billboard charts.
According to the latest Billboard chart (dated 11 May), Jimin’s “FACE” is ranked 14th on Billboard’s World Album Chart. “FACE” has been on the chart for 52 weeks, making it the first and only K-pop solo album to spend a full year on the chart.
The title track, “Like Crazy,” debuted at No. 188 on the BILLBOARD GLOBAL Excl. US chart and has remained on the chart for 58 consecutive weeks, continuing to set the record for the longest charting K-pop solo song.
Jimin’s first solo album, “Face,” released in March last year, garnered global attention when it became the first K-pop solo artist to simultaneously top the Billboard Hot 100 and Artist 100 charts in its debut week, followed by a surge to No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart, which led to a 10-straight weekly rise in his agency Hive’s stock price.
More than a year after its release, the album continues to be a hit, with more than 2.065 billion streams on Spotify, the world’s largest music platform, including more than 1.088 billion for “Like Crazy,” making it the most streamed Korean solo album ever.
In particular, “Like Crazy” has been overwhelmingly dominant in the U.S., becoming the highest-ranked K-pop song on Spotify with more than 530,000 streams per day on 11 May, making it the longest-running K-pop solo on the U.S. Spotify Daily Top Songs chart for 202 days, and on U.S. music platform Pandora, Jimin’s songs have been streamed 76.5 million times, the most by a Korean solo since Psy.
Meanwhile, Jimin’s solo album “Face” has been on the Apple Music Worldwide Albums Chart for 160 days and the European Chart for 102 days, while “Like Crazy,” which became the first Korean artist to reach #1 on the Deezer Worldwide Chart, has been #1 for 81 days as of 11 May and #1 on the Deezer US Chart for 14 days, making him the first and only K-pop artist to achieve this feat simultaneously.
