BTS Jungkook, who started his solo career, dominated the US and Japanese music charts with his first solo single, standing tall as the 'Best Male Solo' singer.
According to the latest chart (as of July 14) of Spotify, the world's largest music streaming company, on the 15th, Jungkook's solo single 'Seven (feat. Latto)' was streamed 15,995,378 times on 'Daily Top Song Global'. went straight to 1st. Jungkook is the first Korean solo singer to enter the Spotify global chart and go straight to No. 1. According to Spotify, the number of streams of 'Seven' is the highest ever recorded by a new entry in 'Top Song Global'.
In addition to this, on the Spotify 'Daily Top Song Global' chart, 'Instrumental' by 'Seven' ranked 65th. 'Still With You' and 'My You' were also ranked 54th and 113rd, respectively.
'Seven' also newly entered the 1st, 2nd, and 4th places in the latest 'Daily Digital Single Ranking' (as of July 14) announced by Japan's Oricon. 'Clean Ver.' and 'Explicit Ver.' of this song took 1st and 2nd place with 17,142 downloads and 9,625 downloads, respectively, while 'Instrumental' took 4th place.
Jungkook's 'Seven' took the world by storm right after it was released. This song swept the top of the iTunes 'Top Song' chart in 106 countries/regions (as of 9 am on the 15th). In addition, 'Seven' ranked first on the Melon TOP 100 (as of 0:00 on the 15th), the largest music site in Korea, 11 hours after its release, setting a new record for a male solo artist to reach the top in the 'shortest time'.
On the other hand, Jungkook's 'Seven' is a song that combines an addictive melody with a warm acoustic guitar and the rhythm of the 'UK garage' (electronic music made in England in the early 1990s) genre. added
Reporter Yoon Jun-ho, Ten Asia delo410@tenasia.co.kr