A few days ago, Jimin, made his first appearance on the Billboard Hot 100 (#96). Fans celebrated the fact that all BTS members now have their own solo Hot 100 entries.

Turns out that one of the members, Jin, didn't just score the highest debut on the Hot 100 for a K-pop solo song, but made the highest first appearance on the said chart in K-pop history (among all existing groups and solo artists).

Here is the full list of all first appearances on the Billboard Hot 100 in K-pop: 

#51. Jin - The Astronaut (2022)
#55. Blackpink - Ddu-Du Ddu-Du (2018)
#64. BTS - DNA (2017)
#64. PSY - Gangnam Style (2012)
#70. Rosè - On The Ground (2021)

#76. Jimin, Taeyang - Vibe (2023)
#76. August D/Suga - Daechwita (2020)
#76. Wonder Girls - Nobody (2009)
#79. V - Christmas Tree (2021)
#81. J-Hope - CNS (2019)
#83. RM, Youjeen - Wild Flower (2022)
#84. Lisa - Lalisa (2021)

#95. Jungkook - Stay Alive (2022)

#96. NewJeans - Ditto (2023)
#97. CL - Daddy (w/ PSY) (2015)

Jin achieved the biggest debut sales by a K-pop soloist on the Global Billboard 200 in history - 62k. Made it to the Top 5 of Digital Sales Debut Weeks in the US in 2022. Was charting on the Billboard Worldwide Digital Songs Sales chart for 7 weeks. Jin is the highest-peaking K-pop soloist on the Billboard Hot 100 in Japan this decade (#4) and the first foreign artist to top the Oricon Sales chart in the past 11 years. He became the first soloist to get a gold certificate for a single album on Circle (Gaon) after becoming a million-seller, even with the exclusion of the USA and Europe. 

Jin made history!