BTS Jungkook has illuminated his global solo artist presence on Spotify, with his solo album ‘GOLDEN’ title track ‘Standing Next to You’ surpassing 400 million streams (pre-filtering) on the platform. Achieving this milestone in just 107 days since its release, ‘Standing Next to You’ has set a new record for the fastest K-pop solo song to reach 400 million streams on Spotify.
Even three months after its release, ‘Standing Next to You’ continues to boast a strong streaming power and popularity on Spotify, maintaining over 2.3 million daily streams. Jungkook has proven his status as a “global streaming king” by updating his discography with five songs, including solo singles ‘Seven’ and ‘3D’, his collaboration ‘Left and Right’ with American singer-songwriter Charlie Puth, BTS album solo track ‘Euphoria’, and now ‘Standing Next to You’, each surpassing 400 million streams.
‘Standing Next to You’ has demonstrated its long-lasting popularity and commercial success by maintaining a position in Spotify’s ‘Daily Top Songs Global’ chart for over 100 days, debuting at number 5 on Billboard’s Hot 100 and staying on the chart for 15 consecutive weeks. It also entered and stayed for 15 weeks at number 1 on both ‘Global 200’ and ‘Global (Excl. US)’ charts and made it to the UK Official Singles Chart ‘Top 100’ for a total of 10 weeks.
The song was included in the Grammy Awards’ list of “15 K-Pop Songs That Took 2023 By Storm,” receiving praise as an “eternal hit that will transcend time for years to come.” It was also selected for the Los Angeles Times’ “The 100 Best Songs of 2023.”
Jungkook has set another record as the first K-pop solo artist to achieve over 4.8 billion streams across all credits on his Spotify profile and over 2.7 billion streams for his solo album ‘GOLDEN’. Meanwhile, the music video for ‘Standing Next to You’ on the HYBE LABELS official YouTube channel is on the verge of reaching 100 million views.
Source: starnewskorea.com
