Beats Miley Cyrus…BTS Jungkook ‘Seven’ Spotify surpasses 1.3 billion won

[Star News | [Reporter Moon Wan-sik]

BTS’ Jungkook’s ‘Seven’ (Seven) shone through global popularity by surpassing 1.3 billion streams in the shortest period of time for an Asian singer’s song on Spotify.

The solo single ‘Seven’, released by Jungkook in July last year, recently exceeded 1.3 billion streams (before filtering) on ​​Spotify, the world’s largest music streaming platform.

‘Seven’ achieved a cumulative 1,300,603,898 streams in 184 days since its release. This is the 3rd fastest streaming performance in Spotify’s history and the 1st shortest streaming performance for an Asian singer’s song.

Also, among the songs released in 2023, it achieved 1.3 billion streams the fastest, surpassing Miley Cyrus’ ‘Flowers’ (Flowers, 187 days).

Previously, ‘Seven’ recorded 1.2 billion streams in 155 days, the fastest period in Spotify history.

In addition, Spotify’s main chart, ‘Daily Top Song Global’ #1 for a total of 71 days in ‘Weekly Top Song Global’ It showed extreme box office popularity, reaching first place for 9 weeks.

Based on these achievements, Spotify showed its power by ranking 4th in the ‘Top 10 Songs Globally’ chart, which summarizes the world’s most streamed music sources in 2023 at the end of the year.

‘Seven’ won ‘Song of Summer’ at the major American pop music awards ceremony, ‘2023 MTV Video Music Awards, MTV VMA. Song of Summer) category and the “Top Global K-Pop Song” category at the 2023 Billboard Music Awards (BBMAs), Europe’s largest music awards ceremony. He was honored with the Best Song category at the 2023 MTV Europe Music Awards (MTV EMA).

In addition, ‘The 100 Best Songs of 2023: Staff Picks’ selected by Billboard, which is known as the world’s two largest charts, and the British Official Chart, ‘the best songs of 2023 Songs and albums'(The best songs and albums of 2023: Official Charts staff picks), as well as ‘100 best songs of 2023’ announced by Rolling Stone, an American music media outlet. It was also selected in (The 100 Best Songs of 2023). In addition, it ranked first in the ‘2023 Bop Of The Year’ selected by Audacy, one of the largest radio stations in the United States.

‘Seven’ is Billboard’s main single chart ‘Hot 100’ It debuted at number one and stayed for 15 weeks. It ranked first on Billboard’s ‘Global (excluding the US)’ for 9 consecutive weeks, and #39;#39;Global 200′ for 7 consecutive weeks, and each charted for 26 consecutive weeks.

Jungkook is ‘Seven’ the ‘shortest’ in Spotify history. In addition to achieving 1 billion streams (before filtering) during the period, it achieved the most 89,748,171 weekly streams (after filtering) and the fastest 100 million streams (after filtering) among tracks from male artists around the world on the Spotify Global Chart, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).)’s official chart ‘MENA’ set a total of 4 new world records, including the artist with the most #1 hits (3), and was officially registered in the UK’s Guinness World Records.

The recent ‘Seven’ music video was hosted by Clio, the ‘Oscars of the advertising world’ and ‘one of the world’s top three advertising festivals’ ;2024 Clio Music Awards’, one of the music video categories, ‘Film & Won the ‘SHORT LIST’ award in the Film & Video category.

Reporter Moon Wan-sik munwansik@mt.co.kr