The Circle chart in South Korea, formerly the Gaon chart, is the latest music ranking platform for Jimin to dominate with his solo debut album ‘FACE.’ The weekly rankings for the week-long period during which Jimin released his album, which was week 12 of the chart, was revealed on March 30. Through these rankings, his widespread and unparalleled impact was once again demonstrated after he achieved a triple crown in 3 different primary weekly chart categories.
It can be said that his first solo project is indeed successful because of the fact that everything about it is performing exceptionally well, as seen from the results of these different weekly charts. The album ‘FACE,’ the main track ‘Like Crazy,‘ and the B-side track ‘Set Me Free Pt.2‘ all claimed the first position in different categories, namely the Album chart, the Download chart, and the Global K-pop chart, respectively.
‘FACE’ ranked #1 on the Albums chart, having recorded over 1.34 million sales, making it the best-selling album of all time by a soloist on the platform’s history. It also became the fastest debut album to achieve 1 million sales, as well as the fastest album by a soloist to reach 1 million sales.
In this way, Jimin joined his own group BTS as the only acts to hold album best-seller records in their respective categories in Circle chart history, i.e. as a soloist and as a group. Consequently, Jimin also has two album best-seller records, both as a soloist and as a group, the only individual who can claim both of these records!
The title track ‘Like Crazy‘ also made its debut at the top of the Download charts. Moreover, all the other five tracks from the album managed to rank on the download chart as well, as being among the top 11 of the most downloaded songs for the week.
On the other hand, ‘Set Me Free Pt.2‘ rose to the top of the Global K-pop chart, with all songs from the album similarly entering this chart alongside five other previously released songs by Jimin, making it 11 total songs by Jimin ranking on this particular chart.
In a different charting category, the ‘FACE‘ album took the throne on the Retail Album chart, recording over 482k sales, with the Weverse version of the album recording over 206k sales and ranking in 2nd place.
In addition, all songs from the album also made their debut on the BGM chart!
In other news, ‘FACE’ has become the fastest album by a Korean soloist to surpass 100 million and 115 million streams on Spotify, doing so in just 5 days and 6 days, respectively. Additionally, ‘Like Crazy’ has also claimed the record of the fastest song by a Korean soloist to surpass 35 million and 40 million streams on Spotify, also doing so in 5 days and 6 days, respectively, while Jimin reached a new peak of over 10.8 million monthly listeners for the first time on his Spotify profile.
On iTunes, ‘FACE’ has retained its #1 position for a sixth consecutive day on the Worldwide iTunes Album chart, and it ranks #3 on the European iTunes Album chart.
‘Like Crazy’ ranks #2 on the Worldwide iTunes song chart and #3 on the European iTunes song chart, having spent a total of 6 days on both charts.
Congratulations Jimin, for all the new records!
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