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Nov 06, 2023

This the jacket of Jungkook of BTS' debut solo album

This the jacket of Jungkook of BTS' debut solo album "Golden." (Official website of Big Hit Music) 


By Hong Angie


Two K-pop acts last week achieved major feats on global music charts.


"Golden," the debut solo album from Jungkook of BTS, on Nov. 4 had the two highest-ranking songs on the Daily Top Song Global Chart of Spotify, the world's largest streaming platform: "Seven" at No. 1 and "Standing Next to You" in second. 


Most of the album's songs also made the chart's top 30: "3D" (seventh), "Hate You" (16th), "Yes or No" (18th), "Please Don't Change" (23rd), "Closer to You" (24th), "Somebody" (27th), "Shot Glass of Tears" (28th) and "Too Sad to Dance" (29th).


On the day of the album's release on Nov. 3, its songs were streamed 39,653,740 times, the most on the debut day by a K-pop solo album in Spotify history.


"Golden" also topped Japan's Oricon Daily Album Ranking as of Nov. 3, with "Standing Next to You" No. 1 on the chart's Daily Digital Single Ranking.


This is the jacket of

This is the jacket of "Seventeenth Heaven," the 11th EP of the boy band SEVENTEEN. (Group's official website)


Meanwhile, "Seventeenth Heaven," the 11th EP by the boy band SEVENTEEN, ranked second on Billboard's Top 200 albums chart after its release on Oct. 23 in the U.S.

 
Billboard on Nov. 5 said the EP debuted at No. 2 just behind Taylor Swift's new album "1989 (Taylor's Version)."


"Seventeenth Heaven" saw sales volume equal 100,000 album units for the week ending Nov. 2.


This EP is the fourth entry by the boy band in the chart's top 10. Its fourth regular album "Face the Sun" was seventh in May last year, its repackaged fourth album "Sector 17" fourth after its release in July that year and its 10th EP "FML" second after coming out in April this year. 


shong9412@korea.kr