The success of Jimin’s solo career continues to skyrocket with every single one of his song releases, the latest one being the main #FastX soundtrack, ‘Angel Pt.1,‘ in collaboration with four other artists. The weekly charts covering the first full tracking week of the song are out, and the outcome of the song’s performance has positioned Jimin in an even higher position and more enviable status in terms of historical accomplishments not just by a Korean solo artist but by a Korean act in general!
On the main singles chart in the biggest music market in the world, the USA, ‘Angel Pt.1‘ debuted at #65 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, making it his fourth career entry on the chart as a solo artist.
With this debut position, ‘Angel Pt.1’ claimed the record of the highest peak for an OST by a Korean/K-pop act on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in history!
The song achieved this rank on the Hot 100 chart after taking the first position among the best-selling songs of the week in the USA, to rank #1 on the Digital Song Sales chart.
‘Angel Pt.1’ became Jimin’s 4th entry on the Hot 100 chart in a span of just 4 months, earning him another major achievement as the fastest Korean ACT to debut 4 songs on the chart, since his first entry! Jimin broke this record previously held by his own group BTS, who accomplished the same feat in 11 months.
It is overwhelmingly exciting and a moment of extreme pride for Jimin’s fans to see that he is going beyond the big achievements already set by his group, a group that is considered to be the most successful Korean act in history!
Aside from the history that he is making on the USA main singles chart, the hot 100, Jimin is also replicating the same success on UK’s official singles charts (3rd biggest music market globally)!
Earlier on, the UK official singles, sales and downloads charts had been published for the first full tracking week of the song, and ‘Angel Pt.1’ debuted on all 3 of these main singles charts among other chart category rankings.
In effect, Jimin claimed another major record as the Korean/K-pop solo artist with the highest entries into the UK official singles chart (4 entries total) and also on the UK official singles sales chart and download chart (with 10 entries onto each), in the history of all three of the charts!
Jimin now holds the record as the Korean ACT with the fastest 4 entries on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in history, and as the Korean soloist with the most entries on UK Official Singles, Sales and Downloads charts.
Overall, Jimin has ranked on the Billboard Hot 100 chart 9 times, with 5 total songs (including his solo songs under his solo profile and under BTS discography) and some of them ranking multiple weeks on the chart. As a Korean solo artist, Jimin is now in second place among the K-soloists with the most entries on the Hot 100 chart, just one song behind the #1 soloist.
Celebrations for these key achievements for Jimin so early in his solo career saw different trends entering the Twitter worldwide trends list, including HISTORY MAKER PARK JIMIN and JIMIN FATHER OF KPOP.
Fans are more pumped up for his future releases, eager to see how far he will go with his solo career, seeing how he has smashed records for Korean soloists and Korean acts alike, just with his first album.
Congratulations Jimin!
