The South Korean singer and songwriter achieved great success for herself. She became the third million-selling soloist. Jin is one of the members of the world famous South Korean boy group BTS.
The group has many records and achievements to its name, and now one of the members of the group has added another star to the galaxy of success.
The song “The Astronaut”, released on October 28, 2022, in collaboration with Coldplay, achieved great success.
On November 18, BigHit Entertainment officially announced that Jin’s solo album “The Astronaut” has sold 1,024,382 copies according to Circle Chart (formerly Gaon Chart) data.
The song is co-authored by Coldplay. This success has made Jin the third soloist to record “The Astronaut” in the history of the music charts, with the album selling over one million copies.
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The other two artists present at this point are EXO’s Baekhyun and trot-ballad singer Lim Young Woong.
After them, Jin becomes the third person to make the list. Coldplay previously collaborated with BTS on “My Universe”, but as an individual collaboration, “The Astronaut” was the first song Jin worked on.
The song “The Astronaut” is all about Jin’s love for and relationship with his fans. He uses a recurring cosmic motif that both the band and singer enjoy using to explore themes of connection and love, as evidenced by the songs they’ve composed before.
Three solo singles, including Kim’s first solo song, the digital single “Tonight”, were released in 2019. BTS—”Awake”, “Epiphany”, and “Moon”—topped South Korea’s Gaon Digital Chart.
According to statistics collected by analytics company Gallup Korea, Kim was named the 13th most popular idol overall in 2019. Kim worked with Nexon as a custom game developer for MapleStory in August 2022.
In honor of his 29th birthday and as a gift to his fans, Kim released his short song “Super Tuna” on December 4, 2021.