Cheers to the many achievements of Taehyung’s newly released digital single, FRI(END)S 🥳🎉👏🙌 First off, here’s FRI(END)S on the Billboard Hot 100 at #65! 🥳🎉👏🙌 V has now earned 4 entries in the chart with your Christmas Tree at #79 (Korean OST), Love Me Again at #96 (B-side), and Slow Dancing at #51 (Title track), making him the first and only Korean solo artist to have 4 different entries in the chart 🥳🎉👏🙌 Our V has also debuted on highly in other Billboard charts, such as on Digital Song Sales at #2, Global Excluding US at #3, and Global 200 at #5 🥳🎉👏🙌 FRI(END)S is Taehyung’s 12th entry in the Billboard Digital Song Sales chart.
Congratulations to our Taehyung as well on re-entering the Billboard Artist chart at #28 🥳🎉👏🙌 It’s now his 10th week on the chart. He has also charted #1 on Tidal Daily Top Videos USA, making him the first and only Korean act to achieve this milestone 🥳🎉👏🙌 Congratulations to V’s Sweet Night, too, on being the #1 best-selling Korean OST in the US 🥳🎉👏🙌
FRI(END)S has also debuted at #38 in Canadian Billboard Hot 100 and #1 in Canadian Digital Song Sales charts 🥳🎉👏🙌 The single has also performed well on so well in other European charts, debuting at #68 on Irish Singles, #96 on Lithuania Agata Singles, #145 on France SNEP Top Singles 🥳🎉👏🙌 FRI(END)S has also debuted at #18 on German Single trending charts, V’s first entry on the chart, #1 on IMI International Top 20 Singles, V’s second #1 debut on the chart, and debuting at #1 on the Official IFPI MENA Chart, V’s first #1 debut on the chart 🥳🎉👏🙌 All versions of FRI(END)S debuted on ARIA Digital Tracks at #4 for the main single, #7 for the speed-up version, #8 for the slowed down version, #10 for the instrumental, and #32 for the MV 🥳🎉👏🙌
Congratulations to FRI(END)S on debuting at #1 on Singaporean RIAS Top Regional Chart and at #4 on RIAS Top Digital Streaming 🥳🎉👏🙌 FRI(END)S has also debuted at #5 in Billboard Songs chart Singapore, #6 in Hong Kong, #8 in Philippines, #8 in Malaysia, #8 in Indonesia, #12 in Peru, #14 in Taiwan, and #17 in UK.
In its second week, your FRI(END)S ranked #4 on UK Official Big Top 40, UK’s biggest chart show 🥳🎉👏🙌 V debuted in the chart at #3 in the first week.
Congratulations to FRI(END)S, too, on trending at #1 in videos worldwide in the music category for 11 days and counting 🥳🎉👏🙌 Currently, FRI(END)S MV has already surpassed 20M views on YouTube and 40M streams on Spotify 🥳🎉👏🙌 This song is now the 33rd most streamed song by a Korean act on Spotify, surpassing BTS’ Spring Day.
Like what many fans said, what’s so awesome about all these achievements is that they’re organic, not a product of manipulating the numbers. It’s rather a product of sabotage. To illustrate, let’s compare V’s songs to the ones released by other artists in Hybe or Big Hit (and other artists in other company in and out of South Korea who are in the same game). As what one fan said, V has done it with “no CDs, no discounts (in the 2nd week), no remixes with alternate cover in the release week, no radio play, no promotion in the US, no major playlisting, messed up platforms, and even half of the sales deleted”. But now we can be even prouder that it still reigns supreme and a large number of people who are genuinely fond of Taehyung’s music, artistry, projects, and influences, just keep multiplying.
Congratulations to V’s Love Me Again, too, on now being the 12th longest charting K-pop song on Spotify Global Chart, surpassing Blackpink’s “Shutdown” 🥳🎉👏🙌 This song has also spent 21 weeks on the Billboard Global Excluding US chart, currently at #178. This is also the longest charting B-side track by a Korean act on the platform, with 225 days and counting, while BTS’ Run BTS got 63 days, and V’s own Rainy Days coming up next with 56 days 🥳🎉👏🙌 Congratulations on now surpassing 2.5B streams on Spotify across all credits, 1.3B streams for your Layover, and 8M monthly listeners once again 🥳🎉👏🙌
To our Taehyung, we’re all so happy and so proud of you, Taehyung-ah 🥳🎉👏🙌 Keep doing amazing; kkep the positive momentum.
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