"History Maker Jimin": ARMYs rejoice as the singer creates a new Guinness World Record for the most streamed K-pop artist on Spotify

On May 26, 2023, Guinness World Records announced BTS' Jimin had become the fastest solo K-pop artist to reach the milestone of one billion streams on Spotify under the male category. The Like Crazy singer did it within 393 days, beating fellow BTS member Jungkook, who set the aforementioned record two months ago.

The Guinness World Records is one of the most trustworthy and renowned reference books and is famous for maintaining records of unique achievements in different fields, including entertainment, education, sports, and more.

As soon as the news broke, fans were overwhelmed and could not contain their joy, and took to social media to express themselves. One user tweeted:

Fans are elated and proud of Jimin for his latest feat

As the fans heard about Jimin's latest Guinness World Record, they started flooding social media with congratulatory posts for the idol. Fans started trending the Like Crazy singer's name under different hashtags, including GuinnessWorldRecordsForJimin, HistoryMakerJimin, Record Breaker, and more.

Many fans also reminisced about how much sheer hard work he put in to achieve his feat. He left his hometown of Busan for Seoul to fulfill his dreams and debuted as an idol without any vocal preparation; he practiced alone without any expensive classes. Fans have been jotting down the sacrifices and struggles he has gone through to achieve this feat. The Like Crazy singer started trending on Twitter with over 70k tweets to his name.

The record of the fastest solo K-pop artist with over one billion streams on Spotify was previously achieved by BTS' Jungkook with only three songs, including Stay Alive, Left and Right (with Charlie Puth), and Dreamers, but the Like Crazy singer succeeded over the Alive singer's record. It took Jungkook sixteen more days than the Promise singer to achieve the aforementioned record.

Meanwhile, as per Guinness World Records, the reason behind the massive surge in the singer's popularity is because of his debut album FACE, which was released on March 24, 2023, with six tracks. Fans loved the main track Like Crazy, which also made him the first K-pop soloist to rank No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.

His solo album includes six tracks, including Like Crazy, Face-Off, Interlude: Dive, Alone, Set Me Free Pt.2, and the English version of the main track Like Crazy.

Jimin was recently featured in the newest campaign video for Tiffany & Co.

The Like Crazy singer's earlier releases, including Promise and Christmas Love, were also made available on the streaming platform Spotify due to the huge demand of the fans and during the scheduled release of the idol's solo debut album, FACE. He recently became the global ambassador for renowned and expensive brands, including French multinational luxury fashion house Dior and American jewelry luxury brand Tiffany & Co.

Jimin was recently featured in the newest campaign video for Tiffany & Co.'s Tiffany T collection and attended the inauguration of the brand's NYC flagship store, The Landmark. He was also spotted supporting fellow BTS member Suga during the latter's solo trek, the Agust D Tour.

BTS' Jimin has recently participated in the American film Fast X's OST, Angel Pt.1, along with other singers, including Muni Long, JVKE, Kodak Black, and NLE Choppa.

About the author

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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