Our Taehyung went online on Weverse and Instagram, spent time with us and gave us updates of him celebrating Valentines and reporting that he’s now promoted in the highest rank in the his military service as sergeant 🥳🎉👏🙌 To our Taehyung, thank you so much for spending time with us on Weverse today and for sharing such beautiful and sweet photos, updating us on how you’ve been doing these days. Your armys and I miss you so much and we’re very happy to receive such amazing photos. I know so many of Taehyungie’s fans and armys around the world are happy, too, and cherishing his photo updates, just like me. 

Since we have celebrated our Taehyung’s song, “Inner Child”, recently, and I remember a report where an “Inner Child” painting that Taehyung bought was included in its painter’s book, who is also a gifted child. In today’s update, our Taehyung was standing in front of another painting that I love so much, which has roses and the inscription, “Innocence is a kind of insanity”. It’s good that Tae was able to find time to rest, enjoy his day off, and also celebrate Valentine’s Day. I wonder if the flowers smell nice and what kind of flowers were in the bouquet. I also celebrated Valentine’s Day by dining in a Korean restaurant and eating tteokbokki. I was fasting from meat and chocolate so I settled on tteokbokki, but it’s also delicious, of course, because I was celebrating it for our Taehyungie. I remember the time I cooked tteokbokki, Korean chicken (like the one on Jinny’s Kitchen), kimbap, and ramyeon before.

The last time I wrote a letter update with your achievements was still in October when I stopped it because of not-so-personal but very distressing reasons. For now, let me share these Spotify update which I have outlined in October: (Note: for this part, I’m copying the achievements and milestones outlined by your fans and armys on twitter then rewrite them with AI ✌️)

Taehyung’s achievements on Spotiy: 

• Kim Taehyung’s massive Spotify achievements include:
  • Most followed K-pop soloist in Spotify history
  • K-pop soloist with the most solo streams (2.3B)
  • Most-streamed B-side by a Korean soloist (“Love Me Again”)
  • Fastest B-side by an Asian act to reach 500M streams
  • Fastest K-pop soloist to reach 100M to 1B streams
  • First and only K-pop soloist to have 4 solo songs reach 300M streams
  • Biggest weekly Korean album debut by a soloist (Layover 101M)
  • First and only K-pop soloist album where all tracks surpassed 80M streams
  • Fastest K-pop soloist album to have all tracks surpassing 20M-80M streams
• Kim Taehyung has surpassed 18 million followers on Spotify, becoming the first K-pop soloist to reach this milestone! 💪🥇🇰🇷👨‍🎤💥1⃣8⃣Ⓜ️👥🎧👑💜
• V has now spent 200 days on the Global Spotify Artist chart, making him the 3rd K-pop soloist to achieve this!
• V has surpassed 2.7 billion streams on Spotify across all credits!
• “Love Me Again” by V has completed 250 consecutive days on Spotify’s Top Daily Global Chart, extending its record as the longest-charting B-side by a Korean act on the chart!
• “Layover” by V has surpassed 400 million streams on Spotify in 2024, making it the most-streamed Korean album by a soloist this year so far!
• “Layover” is the first and only album by a Korean soloist to have all songs surpass 90 million streams on Spotify, reaching this milestone in just 237 days!
• “Layover” has surpassed 1.4 billion streams on Spotify, making it the fastest Korean 
• album by a K-pop soloist to do so.
• V becomes the first K-pop/Korean soloist with two solo songs spending 4 weeks on the UK charts (he did it previously with “Slow Dancing”).
• V is the first K-pop and Korean soloist to have two solo songs spending 4 weeks on both the UK Official Singles Sales and UK Official Singles Downloads charts!
• Kim Taehyung currently has 8 songs that have sold over 100K units in the U.S.!
• As the winner of Favorite Debut Album at the iHeart Radio Awards 2024, you can award V gold stars ⭐️ when you search for him on Google!
• “Layover” by V has been crowned ‘Favorite Debut Album’ at the iHeart Radio Music Awards 2024!
• “Love Me Again” by V is now the 10th longest-charting song by a K-pop act on Spotify, surpassing “How You Like That” by Blackpink!
• V’s “Layover” has surpassed 1.4 billion streams on Spotify, becoming the fastest Korean album by a K-pop soloist to achieve this feat!
  • “Rainy Days” by V has surpassed 245 million streams on Spotify!
  • “Love Me Again” by V has surpassed 570 million streams on Spotify!
  • “Sweet Night” by V has surpassed 375 million streams on Spotify!
  • “Slow Dancing” by V has surpassed 355 million streams on Spotify!
  • BTS’s “Singularity” exceeds 300 million streams on Spotify.
• V is now the 4th most-streamed K-pop soloist and the 15th most-streamed K-pop act on Spotify, surpassing IU.
• V now ties with IU as the second Korean/K-pop soloist with the most songs reaching 100 million streams on Spotify (8 each)!
• V is the second most-streamed K-soloist in 2024, with over 800 million streams so far this year.
• V has now spent 200 days on the Global Spotify Artist chart, making him the 3rd K-soloist to achieve this!
• V’s “Layover” was the #4 best-selling album on Ktown4u on May 16!
• Kim Taehyung achieved a remarkable milestone by charting six solo songs on the Billboard Hot 100, despite having no formal deal in the United States. The songs that charted include:
  • Christmas Tree (#79)
  • Love Me Again (#96)
  • Slow Dancing (#51)
  • FRIENDS (#65)
  • Winter Ahead (#98)
  • White Christmas (#99)
• He stands as the only K-pop soloist to chart four solo songs under such circumstances, facing significant challenges and external obstacles while achieving this extraordinary success.
• Let me also include one fan’s note to Hybe/BigHit – With Taehyung’s exceptional talent, creativity, and captivating presence, he would have undoubtedly found another way to distinguish himself and achieve the superstar status he holds today. However, it’s important to consider the disheartening reality that, despite being one of the primary contributors to BTS’ album sales for years, he experienced setbacks when HYBE (BigHit) seemingly undermined his solo debut album. This was evident in the intentional understocking of the album and the cancellation of orders, actions which many perceive as detrimental to the success of his debut.

Once again, thank you so much for spending time with us today, Taehyung-ah. I’m sooo happy. I hope you’ll come often. Don’t get hurt. Take good care of yourself. I hope you won’t have injuries but in cases where you can’t help it, I hope you’ll rest and bind any wound you’ll have. Keep yourself warm. This scary winter and all our problems now will be solved and will pass too. Let’s endure a little bit until God gives us our rewards – and punishment to those who have abused, mocked, and committed crimes against us. May we have the strength and enthusiasm we need every day. 

Taehyung-ah, have a little bit more happiness than usual. God is for us who are hoping and relying on Him and who do what is right in God’s eyes. May we be celebrating an even longer and more massive string of achievements on Spotify this year.