MUSIC
BTS Jungkook's World Cup song 'Dreamers' surpasses 1 million Shazams
'Dreamers' was so popular that it surpassed 1 million views on Shazam just 50 days after its release, and Jungkook shined as a global vocal king.
On November 27, 'Dreamers' ranked first on Shazam's Global Worldwide Top 200 chart.
On December 24th, 'Dreamers' showed off Shazam's strong music power by climbing to #1 on Korea's Top 200 chart.
In Shazam, Jungkook's self-composed song 'Still With You' and the hit song 'Left and Right', a collaboration between American singer-songwriter and pop star Charlie Puth, are also recording 1 million Shazam views.
As Shazam is a platform where users can directly find and listen to music, it has shown passionate interest from listeners around the world.
Previously, 'Still With You' was the first solo song by a Korean male idol to record 600,000 and 700,000 Shazams.
In addition, Jungkook showed the power of the strongest music powerhouse by becoming the first and only Korean male idol to simultaneously achieve 700,000 Shazam views with his two solo songs 'Euphoria' and 'Still With You'.
Jungkook's solo song 'Euphoria' reached over 840,000, 'My Time' over 390,000, 'Stay Alive' over 360,000, and 'Begin' over 140,000. did.
'Dreamers' surpassed 100 million streams on the world's largest music platform 'Spotify' in just 35 days, the 'shortest period' for a K - pop solo song ever, and is the 'first' in World Cup song history to be released on the global music platform on the first day of release. It ranked first in more than 100 countries on iTunes and broke first place in a total of 104 countries.
'Dreamers' is the 'first' official World Cup soundtrack in history , creating history by sweeping the number one spot on the US Billboard 's Digital Song Sales Chart and reaching #1 spot on the World Digital Song Sales Chart for 'two consecutive weeks' .
Meanwhile, Jungkook was recently selected as one of the '200 Greatest Singers of All Time' announced by Rolling Stone, a renowned American music media outlet . Jungkook was the only Korean male singer to receive the honor of being named.
Reporter Junho Yoon, Ten Asia delo410@tenasia.co.kr
