BTS Jimin, US Billboard's 'With You' hot trending song, the longest charting Korean OST of the week

Jimin of BTS received Billboard's attention through the OST 'With You', demonstrating his powerful topicality and presence.

The American Billboard featured a scene from Jimin's White House speech on December 31st as its representative thumbnail, focusing on the various achievements of BTS as a group and individually in 2022.

After Jimin's speech on the eradication of hate crimes against Asians held at the White House in May of last year, Jimin attracted the attention of domestic and foreign media and celebrities with more than 1 million Twitter mentions, and Billboard also reported related news at the time, focusing on Jimin's speech scene. there is.

In addition, Billboard previously published Jimin's exclusive thumbnail in an interview article commemorating BTS's 'Dynamite' first No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and when 'Life Go's On' became the first song with Korean lyrics in Billboard's 62-year history to reach No. 1 on the Hot 100 chart. A photo of Jimin with Megan Thee Stallion and Justin Bieber was displayed.

This is evidence of Jimin's status, who is called 'Zimmerica (Jimin + America)'. In particular, Jimin is the only member of the team to be ranked in the top 5 as the preferred singer in the United States according to the '2022 KOFICE Global Korean Wave Trend Report' released in December last year. It was ranked , demonstrating its extraordinary popularity and recognition in the United States.

Meanwhile, in this report highlighting the end of 2022, Billboard won the 'Global Recording Artist of the Year Award' given by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, an organization representing the entire global recording industry, for two consecutive years and won three Billboard Music Awards, He delivered big news about the group, including winning the AMA for four consecutive years and performing on the Grammy's 'Butter' stage, and his personal achievements included the smash hit of Jimin's OST 'With You'.

Billboard said, “‘With You’ is not only one of the best K-pop releases of the year, but also ranked first on the Billboard Digital Song Sales chart and #1 on the Hot Trending Songs chart for a whopping seven weeks.” It successfully charted for 26 weeks on the Hot Trending Song Weekly Chart, adding to the record for the longest run for a Korean OST released in 2022.

Meanwhile, 'With You', which ranked first among the 2022 Korean drama OSTs selected by 'Rolling Stone India', is the only song released in 2022, setting an all-kill record of being number one on iTunes in 119 countries and regions in the shortest period of time ever, and is the only song to be released as a Korean OST on Spotify. It is setting impressive records, including becoming the fastest to surpass 188 million streams.

Reporter Junho Yoon, Ten Asia delo410@tenasia.co.kr