It’s safe to say that Jin had one of the most successful solo debuts in K-pop history, setting new records on all of the major global and local charts. Despite having only 10 days’ notice, one week pre-orders, delayed shipping, a 5-minute track, and no playlisting or radio play, ‘The Astronaut‘ still achieved remarkable success, scoring the highest numbers in streams and sales that set new milestones.
Jin debuted with 5.6M streams on Spotify, surpassing all of the soloists’ debut numbers before him. The song is at 75M streams already, and it is the fastest Korean solo song to reach this number. Jin is also the longest-charting K-pop male soloist on Spotify Global chart with a solo song.
The year is about to end, so the year-end results for K-pop artists are being posted everywhere. Turns out that ‘The Astronaut’ by Jin made it into the Top 3 of the biggest first week K-pop solo albums streaming debuts on Spotify in 2022, having only 1 track on his album! The rest of the albums in the Top 10 had a minimum of 7 tracks each! He has 24.2M first-week streams with his 5-minutes track! ‘The Astronaut’ is considered a single album. The result is very impressive.
Biggest first week album debuts on Spotify by Kpop soloists in 2022:
Jin’s solo album is already close to being finished. The artist said it is going to be released after Jin comes back from the military in 2024. He is known for writing beautiful soulful tracks but also being flexible and experimental with genres. The lyrical talent of Jin was praised even by Chris Martin himself. His first solo album is going to be a big release for sure!
Jin is the fastest million-seller soloist in Gaon history and the only one to do so with a single album.
Biggest Spotify counter debut for a Korean Solo song (5.6M)
Fastest Korean solo song to reach 10M-70M streams on Spotify
Biggest debut for a Korean Solo song on South Korea Spotify
The fastest song by a K-pop act to reach #1 on US iTunes (1h 23m)
Highest debut for a K-pop Solo song on Billboard Hot 100 since PSY
Jin has the highest first appearance on Billboard Hot100 for any K-pop act
Jin is the first Korean male solo act to debut his song on both Billboard Global 200 and Global Exc. US Top 10 as a lead artist
Jin has the highest sales debut by a K-pop Solo Act on Billboard Global (62k)
Jin has the highest sales on US digital for any Kpop Solo act (44k), and the highest sales for any Korean Song in 2022, surpassing his own group BTS (Yet to Come – 42k)
Jin is the fastest K-pop soloist to reach 100k units sold in the US with a solo song
The longest charting song by a K-pop solo act on Billboard US Digital Song Sales Chart The longest #1 charting song by any K-pop solo act on Billboard World Digital Song Sales Chart (3 weeks) The highest charting Korean solo song on UK Official Singles Chart ever, and New Zealand Hot 40 this decade
The highest-peaking Korean Solo song on Billboard Japan Hot 100 in history (#4)
The highest sales for any Korean solo song on the Oricon Daily Singles chart in history (104k+)
The fastest song by any Korean Solo act to surpass 1M likes on Youtube, and the second fastest to cross 1M views on Youtube
The longest charting video on the Music Category Youtube Worldwide Trending Chart in history among all artists (17 days)
The fastest song by any K-pop soloist to reach 1M shazams The longest charting solo song by a K-pop male soloist on Spotify’s Global chart
