Breaking yet another record, V, from BTS, achieves a historic milestone in the Billboard Hot 100 chats with his Christmas single; check it out!
KING! Entering the history of the Billboard charts again, the member of BTS, Vmade his third entry on the Hot 100 charts this year 2024, now with his Christmas song “White Christmas”, a feat with vocals from the late jazz singer, Bing Crosbyand became the only K-pop act to achieve the feat this year. The single reached 93rd place in the ranking.
After the release of “FRI(END)S”, and the recent collaboration with Park Hyo Shin in “Winter Ahead”, the new version of the song by Crosbydebuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s “Digital Song Sales” chart, becoming the best-selling track in the United States that week, the third time that Vachieves the feat. The song also debuted at number one on the “Holiday Song Sales”, reaching 65th position on the Holiday 100.
V has now earned three solo No. 1s on the #DigitalSongSales chart: “Christmas Tree” (2022), “Winter Ahead” (2024) and “White Christmas” (2024).
— billboard charts (@billboardcharts) December 17, 2024
“White Christmas” also ranked 43rd on the global charts, which exclude the US, and 72nd on the “Global 200”, while “Winter Ahead” remains firmly at 56th and 103rd in the rankings, respectively, after the second week of release.
It is worth remembering that the achievement of first place on Billboard’s holiday digital sales chart with “Winter Ahead”, in partnership with Park Hyo Shinselling around 10,300 copies, made V dethrone the classic Mariah Carey“All I Want for Christmas Is You”, which fell to number two with only 3,200 copies sold.
This is the sixth time that the BTS member has entered Billboard’s general charts since releasing solo work.
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Source: Recreio
