With his highly successful solo debut, Jimin is continuing to show his impact by dominating different music streaming and buying platforms, setting unprecedented records as a trailblazer for Korean solo artists.
The overwhelmingly high demand for his music has already seen himattain an uncountable number of records to his name,on the world’s largest music streaming platform, Spotify, as previously reported on numerous occasions. Now he is demonstrating his unrivaled status as the top Korean solo artist with statistics on his music’s consumption on Pandora, another music streaming platform for the USA music market.
On July 1, Jimin reached a new peak of 590.4k monthly listeners on Pandora, surpassing his own group BTS to become the Korean Act with the highest number of monthly listeners on the platform!
Just a few days earlier on July 28, he had surpassed 500k monthly listeners on the platform, making him the first and only Korean solo artist in history to ever reach this mark!
He has also surpassed 10 million streams on the platform.
On the world’s largest music buying platform, iTunes, Jimin has similarly set new world records such as the fastest song to get 100 #1s and the first and only artist to achieve a #1 on iTunes in every available country.
He has especially dominated the top music markets like USA, UK, Japan and France. For instance, he is the Korean solo artist with the most #1 hits on both UK and France iTunes [read here], and he has just recently extended this record for France iTunes
After the release of ‘Angel Pt.2’, the song rose to the top of iTunes France, making it his 10th #1 hit in the country, the most for any Korean solo artist in history!
Congratulations Jimin!
