Jimin released 'Promise' on Soundcloud in 2018, and 'Christmas Love' on Soundcloud and YouTube in 2020 as unofficial releases. On its release day, 'Promise' broke the 24hr streaming record on Soundcloud, previously held by Drake, by posting over 8.5 million streams (its record remains unbeaten to this day). Additionally, it currently holds the record as the most streamed song on Soundcloud, with over 328 million streams, among many other achievements on the platform. On the other hand, on its release day, 'Christmas Love' also broke the 24hr streaming record on YouTube to become the most streamed Korean solo audio & Korean male audio in 24hrs on the platform, having posted 9.5 million views. Currently, the song has 68 million streams on Soundcloud and 47 million streams on YouTube.

With such impressive performances, it is evident that fans loved the releases immensely, which is not surprising considering that Jimin took part in the writing of both of these songs. Any song whose creation Jimin partakes in, such as writing, composing or producing, always turns out to be a hit and a masterpiece to be engraved in the hearts of many.

In fact, fans have always wished that the songs would be available on paid platforms, and finally, on March 6, the two songs were officially released on paid platforms ahead of Jimin's solo debut album, making their wish to come true.

Their joy and excitement could not be contained, and in under 30 minutes from the time of release, Jimin had taken over Worldwide trends on Twitter with various hashtags and keywords. He occupied all the Top 8 worldwide trends as well as the Top 2 trends in South Korea. JIMIN JIMIN even surpassed 1 million mentions on the platform within that time!

In addition, in South Korea, Jimin immediately occupied all the Top 10 trending searches on Melon, the country's largest music streaming and downloading platform.

This enthusiasm could be seen in how the songs performed on the music charts as well. 'Promise' debuted at #1 on both the Worldwide and European iTunes song charts, whereas 'Christmas Love' debuted at #2 and #3 on the Worldwide and European iTunes song charts, respectively.

This was a portrayal of the warm reception that the songs received globally, and how well the songs performed on iTunes in different country-based charts.

Such a warm reception could be demonstrated using cases in big markets like Japan, which was the first country to get a #1 on iTunes for 'Promise', an achievement that it accomplished in just 46 minutes from the time of the song's release! By so doing, 'Promise' became the fastest song by a Korean soloist to top Japan's iTunes chart, breaking the record of 47 minutes previously held by Jimin and Sungwoon's 'With You'.

In India, another significant music market, both 'Promise' and 'Christmas Love' reached #1 on the country's iTunes chart back to back, making Jimin the first Korean soloist to have 2 songs top the country's iTunes chart.

Other countries like Malaysia, Kenya, Slovenia, Macau, Panama, Peru, UAE, Lithuania, Honduras, Oman, Singapore, Bulgaria, Finland, El Salvador, Guatemala, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Ecuador, Bahrain, Chile, Argentina, Mexico and Nicaragua among others, also had both songs reach #1 on iTunes on the day of release.

On the biggest music markets like USA, 'Promise peaked at #3 while 'Christmas Love' peaked at #5, while in the UK, 'Promise' peaked at #2 and 'Christmas Love' at #4.

Given how old the songs are, such a performance for the songs to be able to compete with new releases was beyond amazing!

As of the second day of release, both songs are still ranking high on the Worldwide and European song charts. 'Promise' is still #1 on the Worldwide iTunes chart and #2 on the European iTunes chart, while 'Christmas Love' is #3 on both the Worldwide and the European iTunes charts.

So far, 'Promise' has 57 #1s while 'Christmas Love' has 27 #1s on iTunes.

The explosive performance on iTunes following the songs' official release saw Jimin re-enter the Global Digital Artist ranking at #39, and as of Day 2 he is still on the chart at #47. On both days, Jimin was the highest ranking Korean soloist on the chart!

On Spotify, the largest music streaming platform globally, 'Promise' debuted with 1.3 million streams, earning a place on the Spotify Global Daily Top Songs chart at #167. On the Spotify counter, the song posted 1.6 million streams.

In summary, the song made its debut on the Spotify Daily Top Songs ranking in 18 countries and regions, landing in the Top 2 songs in 2 countries and in the Top 100 in 12 countries.

On the other hand, 'Christmas Love' made its debut with 932,883 streams on the Spotify counter, and debuted on the Spotify Daily Top Songs charts in 14 countries around the world, 4 of which were in the Top 50 and 9 in the Top 100.

'Promise' was the top new entry on Spotify South Korea's Daily Top Songs chart, ranking at 17th while 'Christmas Love' ranked 24th.

Additionally, Jimin reached a new peak on Spotify South Korea's Top Daily Artists at #7, becoming the highest ranked K-pop idol on the chart.

'Promise' also peaked at #10 on Spotify South Korea's Viral Daily Songs chart!

Looking at Japan's Oricon Daily Singles chart, 'Promise' and 'Christmas Love' debuted at #1 and #2 respectively, which is again worthy of applause as this is the second biggest music market in the world, and the two old songs achieved such results without any promotions.

The two songs also debuted with 57k and 50k streams on Melon respectively.

Numerous media outlets ranging from TV and online media publications, have all reported on the success of Jimin's songs around the world on their first day of the official release.

Congratulations Jimin!

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