Posted by pjms_gina54,688 pts Tuesday, August 15, 2023
Jimin's 'FACE' is the Best Selling K-Soloist Album on Circle & Oricon (Foreign Language) Charts
Jimin's solo debut album is a certified global hit seeing how it holds the #1 best seller position as well as the longest charting album title on album charts worldwide, including in his home country and in two of the biggest music markets in the world! Nothing could possibly spell success more than such feats for an artist, more so with his first ever solo album.
The unprecedented success of his lead single 'Like Crazy' and his album 'FACE' have positioned him as one of the most successful K-soloists, such as when he became the first Korean soloist to reach #1 on Billboard Hot 100 with the biggest sales debut for any Korean soloist, and also became the highest charting Korean Soloist on Billboard 200 at #2 with the biggest sales debut for an album by a Korean soloist.
In the past few days, Jimin's album has continued to register new records on different album charts around the world.
In South Korea, 'FACE' continues to be the best selling album by a Korean soloist in the history of Circle album chart, having exceeded 1.65 Million copies as of August 10.
Similarly, in Japan which ranks as the second largest music market in the world, Jimin also remains to be the Korean solo artist with the highest album sales on Oricon chart in 2023 with over 241k copies sold. This also happens to be the highest sales for any Korean soloist with a foreign (non-Japanese) album on the chart, with only one Korean soloist (BOA) selling more album copies but with Japanese albums. Overall, Jimin is the 8th best selling Korean act in the country in 2023.
On Billboard World Albums chart, 'FACE' has now been on the chart for 20 consecutive weeks, becoming the longest charting album by a Korean or K-pop solo artist in the history of this chart. Notably, the album attained this record on its 19th week on the chart and has extended the record to the 20th week.
The Billboard World Albums chart ranks the most popular albums each week as compiled by luminate based on multi-metric consumption including additional album sales, track equivalent albums and streaming equivalent albums (both audio and video streams).
Additionally, 'FACE' has been in the Top 10 of this chart ranking for 17 weeks out of the 19 total weeks, which also makes it the longest charting album by a Korean or K-pop solo artist in the Top 10 of this chart.
Previously, the album had also snatched the record for the longest charting album by a Korean or K-pop solo artist at #1 on this chart, after it spent 4 good weeks at the top of the chart.
As his album continues to reach new heights of success showing how much the audience appreciate his work, fans are even more eager and excited about what more Jimin might have in store for them, since he never misses with his work!
FACE us really a masterpiece, a jewel