BTS continued to show off their popularity on the US Billboard charts in the new year.

BTS continued to show off their popularity on the US Billboard charts in the new year.

According to the latest chart (as of January 6) released by Billboard, an American music media outlet, on the 3rd (Korean time), Jungkook's solo album 'GOLDEN' was ranked 46th on the main album chart 'Billboard 200'. The album's title song 'Standing Next to You' ranked 97th on the main song chart 'Hot 100'. As a result, Jungkook was listed on both charts for 8 consecutive weeks.

'GOLDEN' rebounded from the previous week to 10th place in 'Top Current Album' and 13th place in 'Top Album Sales'. 'Standing Next to You' ranked 5th in 'Digital Song Sales', 25th in 'Global (excluding the US)', and 42nd in 'Global 200'.

Jimin's solo single 'Closer Than This', released on December 22nd last year, was ranked 4th on 'Bubbling Under Hot 100', which ranks songs that unfortunately did not make it to the 'Hot 100'. Considering that 'Closer Than This' is a song sung in Korean and there is no separate activity, you can feel the great interest of global music fans towards Jimin.

In addition, 'Closer Than This' went straight to first place in 'Digital Song Sales' and 'World Digital Song Sales' respectively, and was ranked 35th in 'Global (excluding the United States)' and 55th in 'Global 200'.

In 'World Album', BTS' anthology album 'Proof' (8th place) released in 2022 and the first mini album 'O!RUL8,2?' (14th place) released in 2013 were ranked first.

Kim Ji-won, Ten Asia reporter bella@tenasia.co.kr