The collaboration song between BTS's Jungkook and Charlie Puth was named the 'Best Collaboration Song' by the US Billboard .
Billboard, a renowned American music media outlet, selected and reported on the '17 Best Collaboration Songs of 2022'.
Among these, 'Left and Right', a collaboration song between global super group BTS member Jungkook and American pop star Charlie Puth, was selected as one of the 17 'Best Collaboration Songs of 2022'.
Billboard notes that some of the notable collaborations this year feature two artists with different styles coming together for one amazing track, with Charlie Puth featuring one of K-pop's biggest stars, BTS' Jungkook, on his single. He explained that he had participated in 'Left and Right'.
Accordingly, Jungkook joined for an attractive and witty duet song, and 'Left and Right', containing the two's special chemistry, was born.
In addition, Billboard reported that 'Left and Right' peaked at 22nd on Billboard's main single chart 'Hot 100', which combines streaming performance, music and album sales, and radio broadcast scores across all genres of music, making Jungkook the top Korean star. . He emphasized that it achieved a remarkable feat and achieved box office success, saying that it recorded the highest chart entry.
In addition to 'Left and Right', the 17 selections include Taylor Swift x Lana Del Rey's 'Snow On The Beach' and Sam Smith x Kim Petras' 'Unholy'. , David Guett x Bebe Rexha's ' I'm Good', Elton John x Britney Spears ' ' Hold Me Closer ', Drake Savage's ' Jimmy Cooks ' , Post Malone Bad Bunny songs by world-renowned musicians, including Sheeran's 'Bam Bam', were featured on the list.
Since its release, 'Left and Right' has charted on Billboard's main single 'Hot 100' chart for '17 consecutive weeks', and Jungkook has set a new record of becoming the 'first' and 'longest' K-pop idol to enter the chart, making a comeback in his own career. A stroke was drawn.
Since its release, 'Left and Right' has been on the 'Global 200' for 24 weeks, 27 weeks on 'Global (excluding the US)', 'Adult Pop Airplay' and 'Canadian Hot 100' for 20 weeks, and ' Digital Song Sales'. 'Pop Airplay' showed strong long-run power, charting for more than 17 weeks.
Thanks to this powerful box office success, 'Left and Right' achieved the remarkable feat of being listed in as many as six categories on Billboard's '2022 Year-End Settlement' chart.
'Left and Right' ranked 30th on Billboard's 'Digital Song Sales' chart that counts sales in the US, 44th on 'Pop Airplay', a ranking chart that counts the number of radio airplays, and 'Adult Pop Airplay'. ' It was settled in 33rd place.
In addition, 'Left and Right' was ranked 106th on the 'Global 200 Chart', which is calculated based on online streaming and digital sales in more than 200 countries around the world, as well as 87th on the 'Global (excluding the United States)' and 'Canadian Hot 100' . ' It boasted the power of the music source, ranking 65th.
In particular, Jungkook was ranked 'Best' as a K-pop solo singer in the 'Digital Song Sales', 'Global 200 Chart', and 'Global (excluding the US)' charts, and 'Best' as a K-pop singer in 'Adult Pop Airplay' . It also achieved the kind of beauty that went into the charts.
'Le ft and Right' ranked first on the iTunes Top Songs chart in 106 countries/regions and exceeded 450 million streams in 193 days on Spotify, the world's largest music platform.
Meanwhile, 'Left and Right' won first place in the 'Collaboration Song' category at the '2022 People's Choice Awards' (E! People's Choice Awards 2022·PCAs), an American music, film, and TV awards ceremony. 1st place in the '2022 Y100 Bob of the Summer' selected by the US online radio broadcast 'Y100 Michiana', and the '2022 Best Hit' hosted by the global charity 'RED' and the Italian car brand 'Fiat' 'Summer Song ' ranked 1st, 'The 11 Best Songs for Summer 2022' selected by the US magazine Esquire, and 'Summer Song of 2022' selected by the US media 'Cleveland.com'. the Summer 2022), clearly showing the overwhelming power and popularity of the 'mega hit summer song' of 2022.
Reporter Junho Yoon, Ten Asia delo410@tenasia.co.kr