Hi, Taehyung-ah ๐๐ค How are you today? I hope that youโre in an environment that is safe, supportive, and welcoming. Wherever you go, have a very strong plan in place so that no disturbances and unpleasant thing in there can bring you down. Put your eyes on something bigger so that every place or situation works to your advantage and not to your loss. You wonโt be trapped, played, or tricked by others when you know what you want and what you donโt. As long as you stay true to yourself and to others, youโll be able to gain a better understanding of how to do things more successfully. Iโve always been watching you and youโre a very wonderful person, Taehyung-ah. Please donโt let any of your efforts, hard work, talents, ideas and sacrifices go in vain. Believe in yourself so you can protect yourself. May you learn to go above and beyond all those who take advantage of you and do you wrong. Remember all your achievements before and let them serve as a blueprint of more things that you can do in the future. For now, let me bring you your recent achievements, Taehyung-ah.
Congratulations, Taehyung-ah, on receiving a Million Top 10 nomination at this year’s MMA 2023 Awards, a category for albums that earned Melon’s Hall of Fame for garnering over a million streams in the first 24 hours after debut. ๐ฅณ๐๐๐ You are a superb Korean act, Taehyung-ah, and even though you have already made a name for yourself with BTS, you’re still a very successful K-pop star on your own. We all are very excited for your next album, Taehyung-ah. May it also be filled with so much love, inspiration, sincerity and creativity just like your Layover.
Congratulations, too, on being the Best-Selling Soloist on Circle Chart this year (Jan-Oct) with your Layover selling over 2.24M copies. ๐ฅณ๐๐๐ You’ve also conquered Hanteo in the biggest music markets for the platform – South Korea, Japan, China, and the US. Not only that, you’ve also conquered global digital platforms, becoming the most consumed K-pop act at the time of your Layover release.
You have also reigned repeatedly in worldwide iTunes and have maintained a great streak in topping European iTunes and Official Charts while your chart performances in Japan keep reaching new heights and breaking records such as the longest record for a K-pop soloist in charting 12 weeks in Billboard Japan’s Hot Albums chart and 14 weeks in Top Downloads chart while you also remained in Artist 100 chart for 15 weeks. ๐ฅณ๐๐๐ Congratulations, Taehyung-ah. Your Love Me Again has also become the most streamed Bside by a K-pop soloist on Japan Spotify chart history. This song has also been chosen by Tokyo FM radio’s “MVP Song” ๐ฅณ๐๐๐
Your Layover has also charted at #84 on Billboard Global Excl. US Artists 2023 Year-end chart in Top Current Album Sales and Top Album Sales at #30 and #44 respectively, with 43 days of tracking. Your Slow Dancing has already spent 10 weeks on Billboard Global Excl US and Global 200 charts at #96 and #189 respectively. ๐ฅณ๐๐๐
Congratulations, too, on surpassing 1.7B total streams on Spotify. Congratulations, as well, on surpassing 190M streams on Spotify with your Slow Dancing. Congratulations, as well, in spending 100 days on Global Spotify Artist chart and becoming the 3rd K-pop soloist to achieve this while your Love Me Again is the first B-side by a Korean soloist to chart this. This song has garnered the biggest week debut for a B-side for a K-pop soloist and still wonderfully charting on Global Spotify chart since release. Congratulations and happy 100 days to your Love Me Again. ๐ฅณ๐๐๐
I’m really happy to see how passionate and thoughtful you are in the creation of your masterpieces, Taehyung-ah. You got the heart of an artist and my heart swells every time I watch you do what you love and do it well. I wish there can be a film length or extended version of your Slow Dancing MV. Iโm sure you got a lot of scenes taken since itโs such a very wonderful MV. I could see how much you feel for the songโs MV and I love how youโre demonstrating such fantastic creative direction.
I really wish your MV for Slow Dancing can win a big music award, Taehyung-ah. It took so many days to film all the MVs for your Layover, right? I think there were five days in total. Theyโre all so beautiful. Though For Usโ MV is really nice in concluding your Layover MVs, I wonder how it will feel like if itโs given a separate MV with one of the sets in Slow Dancing. I wonder how you feel after finally releasing your first album, Taehyung-ah, and if itโs the concept that youโve always wanted. Iโm really sad that the tracks are about breaking up since I expected them to be romantic songs like the ones youโve written and released before and put us on Cloud 9 of love.
May the love we have last a lifetime. May you always know and feel youโre loved so much.
I love you so much, Taehyung-ah. I, and so many of your armys, love you so much. Always remember that. May we always be your friends to make you comfortable. May we be among your many sources of strength and vitality so that you can go beyond and be successful in any endeavor youโll take this year. Weโll support you through thick and thin. Please take good care of yourself. Eat and sleep properly and keep a healthy lifestyle and optimistic mindset. May your days always be filled with happiness, graces, and blessings. May all your dreams come true and may you be happy, successful, and peaceful in 2023. ๐ผ๐ Borahae, Saranghae, Taehyung-ah. ๐๐๐๐๐๐โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ