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Jungkook of BTS has set a new record on the U.S. Billboard charts.
According to the latest chart (as of February 3) announced by the U.S. music medium Billboard on the 30th (Korean time), Jungkook’s solo album _Golden_ ranked 58th on the main album chart ‘Billboard 200’. As a result, this album has stayed on the chart for 12 consecutive weeks setting a new record for the longest time on the ‘Billboard 200’ chart for a K-pop solo artist’s album.
The title track “Standing Next to You” ranked 85th, up two steps from the previous week on the main song chart ‘Hot 100’, and like the album, it has been on the chart for 12 consecutive weeks.
BTS also performed well. Their first regular album _Dark & Wild_ made its first entry at 27th on the ‘Top Album Sales’, and their second mini-album _School Love Affair_ re-entered at 39th. Both albums also re-entered the ‘World Album’ on the 10th and 14th respectively. On the ‘World Digital Song Sales’, _Dark & Wild_’s title track “Danger” ranked first, and _School Love Affair_’s track “Just One Day” ranked sixth. The anthology album _Proof_ ranked fourth on the ‘World Album’.
Jungkook and Jimin are continuing their success on the ‘Global 200’ and ‘Global (excluding U.S.)’. On the ‘Global 200’, Jungkook’s “Standing Next to You” (22nd), solo single “Seven” (26th), another solo single “3D” (79th), and Jimin’s first solo album _Face_’s title track “Like Crazy” (127th) were included. On the ‘Global (excluding U.S.)’, “Seven”, “Standing Next to You”, “3D”, and “Like Crazy” were ranked 17th, 19th, 51st, and 92nd respectively.
By. Young Jin Kim
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