Jungkook's 'My Time' and 'Euphoria' set new records on Worldwide iTunes and Spotify respectively and both songs now sold 200K units in USA and extend record on Billboard
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Posted by dose-nel38,981 pts Thursday, November 5, 2020
Jungkook's solo songs are no strangers to charts domination as well assetting and breaking records. 'Euphoria' and 'My Time' are smash hits which made headlines for milestones achieved on both international and Korean charts, and continuously setting new records showing immense popularity and proving Jungkook's credibility as a world class singer.
As reported by K-media, 'My Time' now becomes the first Korean B-side and BTS solo song to chart for 100 days on Worldwide iTunes Song Chart, thus making it the longest-charting Korean B-side and BTS solo song on the chart. Other notable achievements of 'My Time' include highest entry for BTS solo song on Billboard Hot100, fastest BTS solo song to sell 100,000 units in the US and the first one to chart at #1 on Billboard World Digital Song Sales.
'Euphoria' also set new record as it has surpassed 180 million streams on Spotify, becomes the first K-pop male idol solo song to achieve this feat. It is the most streamed BTS solo song and the third most streamed K-pop solo song on the platform after Blackpink Jennie's 'Solo' and PSY's 'Gangnam Style'.
Other notable achievements of 'Euphoria' include best-selling b-side in Kpop with over 4 million copies sold worldwide, highest Unique Listeners for a BTS solo song on MelOn (largest music subscription service in South Korea) and charted at #5 on Billboard bubbling under Hot100.
Another huge record of 'Euphoria' is being the longest charting K-pop solo song on Billboard World Digital Song Sales chart. This week, both 'Euphoria' and 'My Time' enter the chart at #15 and #11 respectively. 'Euphoria' had spend a total of 37 weeks on the chart, extending its record as the longest charting K-pop solo song while 'My Time', which spent 34 weeks is the second longest charting K-pop solo song (tying with BTS' Jimin's Filter) on Billboard World Digital Song Sales chart.
The good news doesn't stop there as 'My Time' was just recently announced to reach over 200,000 units sold in the US, joining her sister 'Euphoria' which reached the same milestone back in July 2019. 'Magic Shop' also sold over 200,000 units in the US in August last year right after 'Euphoria', Jungkook is the main producer of the song and he mentioned in a press conference that he made it specially for ARMY as a source of comfort during difficult times.
Jungkook's popular self-produced song 'Still With You' which he released on Soundcloud also making headlines in K-media as it ranked at #1 on SoundCloud’s Top 50 Chart (all genres) despite being released 5 months ago in June this year. His cover of Dan + Shay and Justin Bieber's '10,000 hours' ranked #3 while 'Euphoria (Forever Remix)' ranked at #25 on the chart, showing timeless popularity.
Anything Jungkook touches turns to gold.