A month after Jimin released his solo debut album ‘FACE,’ he continues his record-breaking streak both with his main track ‘Like Crazy’ and with his full album ‘FACE.’ With the overwhelmingly warm response to the releases, his streaming numbers, particularly on the world’s largest music streaming platform, Spotify, have been nothing short of magnificent. In turn, such high daily streaming rates have led to the achievement of historical milestones for any Korean solo song and album releases and for any K-pop soloist!
First of all, just after its release, ‘Like Crazy’ made its debut on numerous Spotify Daily Top Songs country charts, among them being all of the 8 biggest music markets in the world. These top 8 countries that are considered to be the top music markets include the USA, Japan, UK, Germany, France, Canada, Brazil, and Australia, in that order. Thus, ‘Like Crazy’ became the first and only K-pop solo song to debut on all 8 of these music markets’ Spotify Daily Top Songs charts.
Approximately four weeks after its release, the song’s Korean (original) version surpassed 100 million streams on Spotify as of April 23 (30 days after release). Previously, the K-pop soloist that achieved this milestone the fastest did so in 35 days. Therefore, ‘Like Crazy’ set a new record as the fastest solo song by a Korean/K-pop soloist to achieve this milestone.
The combined Korean and English versions of ‘Like Crazy’ have already surpassed 180 million streams on Spotify, with the Music video on YouTube having surpassed 45 million streams.
On Melon, South Korea’s largest music streaming and downloading platform, ‘Like Crazy’ has surpassed 20 million streams as of April 21, thereby adorning Jimin with a new record of having the fastest solo song by a BTS member to reach this feat!
The song has also won the Melon Weekly Popularity Award for 4 consecutive weeks, which is every week since its release!
The song is also going steady in the UK, ranking on the UK Official Singles chart, Singles Sales chart and Singles Downloads chart for a fourth consecutive week. As such, ‘Like Crazy’ also becomes the 3rd longest charting song by a K-pop soloist in history both on the UK official Singles chart and Downloads chart.
Looking at the album ‘FACE’ it surpassed 300 million streams on Spotify as of April 21, making it the fastest album by a K-pop soloist to reach this milestone even though the album is an EP with just 5 songs! Currently, the album has surpassed 330 million streams and extends the record of the fastest album by a K-pop soloist to reach this feat. The album also holds similar records for the 100M and 200M streaming milestones.
On Melon, it has now surpassed 70 million streams.
Congratulations Jimin for all the new achievements!
