Hi, Taehyung-ah 😊🤗 How are you? I hope that you’re doing extremely well and that you’re happy. I hope you’ve not caught a cold, especially that it hasn’t been long since you were sick. Take good care of yourself and eat properly according to your diet (hopefully, it’s a healthy one).
There are just a couple of days before your birthday month begins, a few weeks before Christmas, and a month before a new year begins. The time passes by so quickly, Taehyung-ah. I feel like I’ve just been sleeping throughout the year and haven’t really advanced, or moved forward in anything. All my short-term and long-term goals were scratched and I feel very sorry.
I wonder if you can tell us how this year has been for you. You must have achieved most of your short-term and long-term goals, if not all. I was very touched to see that PTD in the US interview of you wishing for good things to come and here you are, two years later, achieving so much. I’ve also seen a lot of throwback clips from your fans and armys about you saying cute and hopeful things before and how it’s just so admirable that you get to achieve most of them. You’re now a brand ambassador of international brands, you’ve been to the Paris Fashion Week and got a lot of photos taken by Slimane. You’ve also been on many Korean music shows’ stages with your ultra successful debut album. You’ve also been on some of the biggest and most popular reality shows in South Korea, like Running Man, You Quiz, and Na PD’s shows, and you’ve been linked to so many big names in the Korean entertainment industry, be it actors, idols, hosts, and a lot more, both in official show casting or casual hanging out.
I hope you’ll always (or most often) have a peaceful time where you can bring yourself some good recollections of your wishes back then so that you can continue to make them into a reality and so that you can keep the ones that are important to you for a long time, for a lifetime. I think that the things we do from the heart will last for a lifetime, right? So, I hope you’ll always be able to do what you love, Taehyung-ah, and that you won’t run out of inspiration, motivation, courage, and creative freedom to continuously build upon the things that you want, that you’re good at, and that you believe in.
Almost three months since your Layover was released, and almost four months since your solos, Love Me Again and Rainy Days were released, you still have continuously kept your impressive streak, Taehyung-ah. Congratulations on now spending 11 weeks on Billbaord Top Current Album Sales and Top Album Sales charts with your Layover, currently at #28 and #41 respectively. Your Slow Dancing has also now spent 11 weeks, currently at #111, on Billboard Global Excl. US chart, while your Love Me Again has now spent 14 weeks on the chart, re-entering at #192. Your Layover has also been the longest charting album by a Korean soloist on the Billboard 200 chart.
Congratulations on surpassing 780M streams on Spotify for your Layover. It has now become the 34th most streamed album/project of all-time by a K-pop act on the platform, surpassing your group, BTS’, Dark & Wild and iKONS’s New Kids Repackage: The New Kids.
Congratulations, too, on having the fastest album by a K-pop act to have each solo song surpass 50M streams on Spotify as your Layover did that in just 72 days. Congratulations, too, on having the first K-pop solo album to have all songs chart on Spotify Global Weekly in the first week of its release.
Congratulations, as well, on exceeding 1.7B views on your Spotify profile. Currently, your Love Me Again has surpassed 241M streams, Slow Dancing has 209M streams, Rainy Days has 163M streams, For Us has 56M streams, Blue has 53M streams, and Slow Dancing Piano version has 58M streams. Congratulations, too, on now garnering 4 songs that surpassed the 200M streams mark, with your Slow Dancing recently reaching this milestone in 76 days, your Love Me Again in 85 days, your Christmas Tree in 348 days, your Sweet Night in 697 days, and your Singularity in 1393 days. I hope you’ll release more and more amazing songs that are close to your heart, Taehyung-ah.
Your Sweet Night has now garnered 350M streams on Spotify, your Christmas Tree has 364M streams – the fastest Korean OST to hit the 300M streams on the platform, which was also previously held by your Sweet Night, and which beat Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas’ popularity at the time of your song’s release, your It’s Definitely You with Jin has 163M streams, your Winter Bear has 17M streams, Your Snow Flower has 14M streams, and your Scenery has 12M streams.
Congratulations, too, on now spending the 15th week on the Global Spotify weekly chart at #97 with your Love Me Again. Congratulations, as well, on now spending 15 weeks or 106 days, currently at #147, on Spotify Global Weekly Artist chart. Your cover for It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas has also surpassed 19M views on YouTube.
Congratulations, Taehyung-ah, on keeping your excellent popularity streak in Japan too, with you magnificently topping the Korean male idol and actor ranking sites in the country for 139th and 135th consecutive weeks at #1, as well as topping KPOP JUICE and KBOARD sites at #1. I love how you’re being very impressive in both big and small impactful activities, charts, rankings, and achivements, Taehyung-ah. You’ve secured all sides of your “influence fortress”, right? You did so amazing. Keep doing your best happily, our beloved Taehyung whom we are always so proud of and who always make us happy.
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 you’ll take this year. We’ll 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. 👼😘 Borahae, Saranghae, Taehyung-ah. 💜💜💜💚💚💚❤️❤️❤️