On June 17 EST, American music publication Billboard announced through its website that Jungkook’s digital single ‘Never Let Go‘, released on June 7, has entered the main song chart ‘Hot 100’ at number 97 (for the week of June 22).
Jungkook has now entered the ‘Hot 100’ seven times with solo songs, setting a new record for the most entries by a K-pop solo artist. He remains the only Korean solo artist to have three songs in the top 10 of the ‘Hot 100.’
“Never Let Go” made it onto the ‘Hot 100’ solely based on streaming numbers and lyric video views, without any official promotion, further proving Jungkook and BTS’s continued global popularity.
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