BTS Jung Kook World Cup fever takes iTunes charts by storm as Dreamers dominates

Jung Kook's first official solo single, Dreamers, for the FIFA World Cup was released on November 20. As soon as the single was released, it immediately started dominating iTunes charts in many countries. Within 13 hours of its release, Dreamers made its way to No. 1 on the iTunes Top Songs charts. The song has reached No. 1 on the iTunes charts in many regions. The song dominated the biggest music markets, including the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, Canada, Australia, Italy, and Germany.

Dreamers also became the fastest official FIFA World Cup song to reach No. 1 on the iTunes Charts in the United States. The song topped the iTunes Charts within only 2 hours and 11 minutes.

The BTS idol also went on to give his first performance at the FIFA World Cup on the same day of the opening ceremony. He sang Dreamers live in front of a huge audience.

Jung Kook gave a spectacular performance with Fahad Al Kubaisi

Jung Kook gave a fantastic performance at the opening ceremony of the FIFA World Cup. He went on to perform Dreamers at the Qatar’s Al Bayt Stadium. He was later joined by Qatari singer Fahad Al Kubaisi, who sang with him.

Jung Kook is also the first and only K-pop singer to perform at the opening ceremony of the FIFA World Cup.

RM, Jimin, j-hope, V, and Suga took to their Instagram stories to express how proud they are. RM posted an Instagram story with many heart and fire emojis. j-hope posted a story of him cheering loudly for his maknae with the caption, "Goosebumps."

As soon as the singer finished his performance, he went live on Vlive to interact with ARMYs. Following that, he went on to express his gratitude for ARMYs who are always supportive. He later thanked his fans and BTS members for cheering him on during his performance.

It showcases how proud Suga is of his maknae and how he has come a long way. Jimin also wrote that the BTS maknae’s performance was so cool.

ARMYs took to Twitter to react to Jung Kook's performance

ARMY’s brimmed with joy as they watched the BTS maknae create a historic moment.

Fans are also proud of the fact that he became the first Korean to perform at the FIFA World Cup.

ARMYs are also happy with the fact that the K-pop idol is elated after delivering his performance.

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Kirti holds a Bachelor's degree in Journalism & Mass Communication and has been a Kpop writer at SK POP since 2022. She has been following Kpop and Kdramas since the last 6 years and but has worked in the genre only in the last 3-4 years donning several several caps - social media intern, copywriter, article writer and academic writer.

Kirti likes to pen down insightful features based on Korean dramas, especially the 'Ending Explained' categories. It gives her the satisfaction of creating the most authentic content rather than simply replicating what media outlets generally do.

Her process of creating content is time-consuming, yet methodical; she prefers to use original sources of information, which in her case are Korean outlets. She watches entire episodes, writes them down, cross-checks/fact-checks the details/event timelines off the web and eventually creates her copy.

Kirti likes Lee Je-hoon, IU, and Kim Seon-ho since she feels that their dramas are inspiring and have good plotlines. When she is not writing about K-dramas, she can be found watching them.

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