Jimin’s solo debut is one that will be remembered for its level of success. Having already conquered several of the top music consumption platforms like iTunes, Spotify, and Pandora, his hit single ‘Like Crazy‘ continues to demonstrate its extensive popularity among the masses globally with new records on yet another music streaming platform, Deezer.
On Feb 18, the song rose to a new peak of #1 on Deezer Top 100 Worldwide chart for the first time since its release close to 11 months ago. As such, ‘Like Crazy‘ became the first and only song by a Korean/K-pop act in history to reach #1 on this chart, and Jimin became the first and only Korean/K-pop act in history to achieve this milestone.
He re-peaked again at #1 on Feb 20 on the same chart, earning him a second day atop the chart, again the only Korean act ever to achieve this.
This became yet another ‘first‘ record for Jimin after already claiming numerous such titles. To mention some of these records, only considering those centered around global charts and the top 3 biggest music markets globally, namely USA, Japan, and UK, they include:
- First Korean soloist to reach #1 on Billboard Hot 100, Billboard Artist 100, Billboard Japan Artist 100 [read here and here and here], and #1 on Spotify Global Daily Top Songs [read here]. Until now, he remains the only Korean soloist to reach #1 on Billboard USA and Japan Artist 100 charts, #1 on Billboard Hot 100 with a Korean solo song, and #1 on Spotify Global with a Korean song.
- First and only artist in the world with multiple songs (2) achieving #1 on iTunes in every country that has the service currently [read here].
- First and only Korean solo act to surpass 500k monthly listeners on Pandora [read here].
- First Korean soloist to sell over 1 million album copies in 24 hours on Hanteo [refer here].
- First album by a Korean soloist to surpass 1 Billion streams on Spotify [read here].
- First and only album by a Korean soloist in history to enter Billboard 200 year-end chart [read here].
- ‘Like Crazy’ is also the first and only Korean song to rank among Spotify’s annual list of the Top 10 tracks on the platform [read here].
- First top 10 debut by a Korean soloist on the UK Official Singles Chart [read here]
- Jimin is the first and only Asian soloist to be nominated in a main category at one of the biggest American music awards, BBMAs, with ‘Like Crazy’ [read here].
- Jimin reached #1 on Japan’s daily and weekly Oricon digital singles charts as the first Korean soloist to do so [read here] and also became the first Korean solo artist with RIAJ Platinum certification [read here].
- First Korean act and first Korean song to reach #1 on Deezer Top 100 Worldwide chart [latest addition].
Notably, the previous highest peak was by his group BTS at #2, and it was either with English songs or a collaboration with a Western feature.
Overall, Jimin becomes only the second Asian act in history (after Mitski) to rise to the top of the Deezer worldwide chart.
‘Like Crazy’ was propelled to #1 after dominating Deezer charts in different countries. It currently (as of Feb 20) ranks #1 in 14 countries around the world and appears on the Top 100 songs chart for big music markets like the USA, UK, and Australia, as well as other key countries like Italy, Spain, Singapore, Ireland, and more. Moreover, it ranks among the Top 20 trending songs in the USA as well as in other countries, which is a ranking of the songs being searched, added, and streamed the most within a country.
Fans, as well as ‘Like Crazy’s’ songwriters, celebrated this massive achievement by Jimin with congratulatory messages and expressed their pride in Jimin for creating such a masterpiece.
Congratulations Jimin!
