"The Astronaut" by #Jin is the longest-charting K-pop solo song on the Billboard World Digital Song Sales Chart in 2022
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'The Astronaut' by Jin demonstrated an exceptional performance on the Billboard charts in 2022. It's even more impressive considering that Jin was competing with Taylor Swift and Drake albums, and also Rihanna, while not having any radio play or playlisting. Jin now holds the record of the highest first appearance on Billboard Hot100 for any K-pop artist. "The Astronaut' is the highest K-pop solo song to debut on Hot100 in this decade (#51).
🐹📈 Highest First Appearances On Billboard Hot 100 For K-Pop acts:
#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)
'The Astronaut' debuted with the biggest number of sales any K-pop soloist ever had in Billboard's history - 62k. In the USA (44k), it also has the highest sales for any Korean song, and Jin surpassed even his own group - BTS, with the song 'Yet To Come"! He was charting on Billboard Global 200 Excl. US for 5 consecutive weeks. Jin also spent 4 weeks on the Billboard Global 200 chart. The artist was charting on Digital Song Sales chart for 3 weeks, making him the first soloist to do so. He is the first Korean male solo act to debut in the Top 10 of both charts as a lead artist.
Biggest sales debut by KPop acts on Billboard Global 200 this year:
#1. Yet To Come — +42K (in US) #2. The Astronaut — 62K #3. Dreamers — 48K🆕 #4. Stay Alive — 45,2K #5. Left and Right — 45K #6. Bad Decisions — 40K #7. Pink Venom — 36K #8. Still Life — 29,7K #9. Shut Down — 17K
Last week, Jin set a record on Billboard World Digital Song Sales Chart. 'The Astronaut' became the longest-charting solo song in 2022 on the said chart. The song stayed in the Top 15 for 7 weeks straight. It is the 4th longest-charting K-pop song overall in 2022. The songs above 'The Astronaut' are: 'Pink Venom' by Blackpink, 'Yet To Come' by BTS, 'That That' by Psy feat. Suga. It's also tied with 'Maniac' by Stray Kids.
Longest Charting Kpop Songs on World Digital Song Sales 2022
1. Psy feat. Suga - That That / 12 weeks 2. BTS - Yet To Come / 11 weeks 2. Blackpink- Pink Venom / 11 weeks 3.
Jin owns the record of the highest K-pop 1st appearance and solo debut on Hot100 (#51), the longest charting solo song on Billboard World Digital Song Sales Chart in 2022 (7 weeks), spent 5w on Global 200 Ex. US, 4w on Global 200, highest sales!!
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So happy Seokjin’s song is still being celebrated and achieving greatness in music