Agust D's second mixtape reached 600 million streams on Spotify.
On September 16th, 2022, BTS SUGA's mixtape under his alias Agust D reached a new milestone, making history as the most streamed album by a Korean Soloist on the platform.
D-2 surpassed 600 million streams in 847 days.
The mixtape broke countless records after the release:
- The first album by a Korean Soloist to reach #1 on iTunes in all big music markets where iTunes was available (US, UK, Germany, Japan, France, Canada, Australia, Brazil).
- The highest charting album by a Korean Soloist on Album Charts in Australia, Italy, Scotland, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, Netherlands, Sweden, Lithuania, France, Finland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria, Denmark, Switzerland, Estonia, Spain, Hungary, and Canada.
- The first album by Asian Soloist to chart on Album Charts in Slovakia, Denmark, and enter the Top 10 in Australia.
- The first album by a Korean Soloist to chart an entire album on Global Spotify Chart and chart 9/10 tracks on US Spotify Chart.
- At the time of the release, it became the highest charting and the first album by a Korean Soloist to enter the Top 15 on Billboard 200 Chart; the mixtape debuted at #11.
- 7 songs from the album debuted at the same time on Rap Digital Song Sales Chart; he was the only Korean Soloist to achieve this.
- Gained 42.9M streams in its first week on Spotify, earning the biggest opening week for a Korean Soloist when it was released.
- Became the fastest album by an Asian Act to reach #1 in 100 countries, doing so in only 77 days.
- 10 songs from the album debuted at the same time on both World Digital Song Sales Chart and Digital Song Sales Chart.
- The mixtape was praised by the Ministry of Culture, Kim Bo Hee (a music anthropologist), Goh Beom Joon (a high-rank official in the National Gugak Center), Kim Tae Hoon (a president of the Korea Institute of Craftwork, Design & Culture), Choi Joon Sik (a professor of Korean Studies), Kim Young Woon (a president of Korean Traditional Music Broadcasting).
You can listen to the album here:
he's really impressive to achieve this with a mixtape