Jimin‘s lead single ‘WHO‘ from his sophomore album ‘MUSE’ is consistently exceeding expectations in performance in the largest music market in the world, the USA, despite not having any good playlisting, a Western feature, or active promotions on the market. It has now been 10 weeks since its release, and the song keeps registering new unprecedented records week after week, as seen from the impeccable performance on the Billboard Hot 100, Spotify USA Daily and Weekly Songs chart, RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) Certifications and more.
On September 30, it was reported that ‘WHO’ had now sold over 1 Million units in the USA, making it eligible for RIAA Platinum certification. ‘WHO’ achieved this huge feat in just 74 days, thereby clinching the record as the fastest solo song by a Korean/K-pop solo artist in history to achieve this milestone, beating the previous record of 143 days by Jungkook’s ‘Standing Next To You.’ It is also the fastest song of 2024 by an Asian act to achieve this.
This becomes Jimin’s second song as a solo artist to achieve this milestone, after ‘Like Crazy’ which reached the feat in 153 days, making it the 3rd fastest solo song by a K-pop soloist to achieve this, as of current standing.
#Jimin's "Who" has now sold over 1 million units in the US. pic.twitter.com/mxfwicqsGO
— chart data (@chartdata) September 30, 2024
Jimin's "Who" has now sold over 1 MILLION units in the US 🇺🇸🔥
Who is now the FASTEST K-Soloist solo song to become RIAA PLATINUM eligible in HISTORY 🥳
Congratulations Jimin! 👏
HAPPY JIMTOBER
JIMTOBER IS HERE#HelloJimtober#국방부_달력도_짐토버#시작된_우리의_짐토버 pic.twitter.com/WWE4HQ5CIU
— JIMIN DATA | MUSE • Mostly REST (@PJM_data) September 30, 2024
"Who" has sold over 1 MILLION units in the US!🥳
It is the fastest K-soloist solo all time and the fastest song of 2024 by an Asian act to make this feat.
It is now eligible for RIAA Platinum Certification.
Congratulations Jimin!!👏#HelloJimtober
HAPPY JIMTOBER
JIMTOBER IS… pic.twitter.com/1gF4K4Tjg2
— Jimin Global | MUSE (@JiminGlobal) September 30, 2024
Who by jimin (74 days) is now the fastest solo song by kpop soloist sold 1 million units in the US, surpassing standing next to you by jungkook (143 days) pic.twitter.com/3MPKsAMK4O
— ZIBA (@ZIBA_7777) September 30, 2024
Previously, on August 21, ‘Like Crazy’ was also reported to have now surpassed the 2 Million sales units mark, making it eligible for RIAA Double Platinum certification.
‘Like Crazy’ now becomes the first and only solo song by a Korean/K-pop solo artist to achieve this in the past decade.
#JIMIN's "Like Crazy" has now sold over 2 million units in the US. It's his first solo song to reach this milestone. pic.twitter.com/kLbGsBzSRp
— chart data (@chartdata) August 21, 2024
"Like Crazy" has sold over 2 MILLION units in the US and is now eligible for RIAA Double Platinum Certification! 🔥
It becomes the first and only solo by a Korean or K-pop solo artist to achieve this in the past decade.
Congratulations, Jimin! 👏#LikeCrazy2MillionUnits
LIKE… pic.twitter.com/RfJxmJbBTa
— Jimin Global | MUSE (@JiminGlobal) August 22, 2024
Looking at the biggest singles chart in the world, the Billboard Hot 100, Jimin is leaving his mark here as well.
‘WHO’ has achieved the highest ranking for any K-pop solo artist’s song on its 10th week on the Hot 100 chart, placing at 30th. It consistently held the top spot for any K-pop soloist from its 2nd to 10th week on the chart.
It is the first and only song by a Korean/K-pop soloist to rank within the Top 30 of the chart for 8 weeks, and within the Top 40 of the chart for 10 weeks!
"Who" is also now the FIRST and ONLY K-Soloist song to spend its first 10 weeks in the top 40 of the Hot 100!
Wk 1: #14
Wk 2: #12
Wk 3: #24
Wk 4: #29
Wk 5: #32
Wk 6: #38
Wk 7: #28
Wk 8: #30
Wk 9: #30
Wk 10: #30
Let's give Jimin the Jimtober he deserves! Keep pushing!
— JIMIN DATA | MUSE • Mostly REST (@PJM_data) October 1, 2024
Who by jimin remains at #30 of billboard Hot 100 🔥
*It's becomes the first and only song by kpop soloist to spend 8 weeks in top 30 and 10 weeks in top 40 of billboard Hot 100 this decade pic.twitter.com/SnVvir2yPT
— ZIBA (@ZIBA_7777) October 1, 2024
On Spotify USA (and Spotify is the world’s largest music streaming platform by number of users), Jimin’s ‘WHO’ has not left the Top 10 of the Daily Top Songs and the Weekly Top Songs chart ever since its release.
‘WHO’ becomes the first and only song by a Korean/K-pop Act in history to spend 10 weeks in the Top 10 of Spotify USA Weekly Top Songs chart.
Who by Jimin now becomes the FIRST and ONLY Song by Korean/Kpop Act to spend 10 weeks in Top 10 of Spotify USA Weekly Chart.
CONGRATULATIONS JIMIN pic.twitter.com/MrpOdDm9Rz
— ⁷ (@Pk_bts_land) September 28, 2024
In other news, Jimin has now surpassed 10 Billion audio on-demand streams globally, becoming only the second K-pop solo artist in history to do so.
Jimin's total on-demand audio streams worldwide as of Sept 27:
10,005,505,501 pic.twitter.com/WfeWaERoX2
— JIMIN DATA | MUSE • Mostly REST (@PJM_data) September 28, 2024
Jimin’s second album has been even more successful than his first, and if this growth rate is anything to go by, then the third album will be reporting even more jaw-dropping records in record time! His fans simply cannot wait to witness more history from him.
Congratulations Jimin!
