The popularity of singer Lim Young-woong's first OST, 'Love Always Runs Away', is currently ongoing.
As of the 5th, the total number of views of Lim Young-woong's 'Love Always Runs Away' music video, official audio video, lyric video, and sound video exceeded 76 million views.
‘Love Always Runs Away’ is the main OST for KBS2’s weekend drama ‘A Gentleman and a Lady’. A song by emotional ballader Lee Moon-se, newly arranged by composer Midnight. Lim Young-woong's unique delicate and moist sensibility as well as the acoustic and simple feel of the original song were maintained as much as possible.
‘Love Always Runs Away’ ranked first on various music charts after its release. In addition, Lim Young-woong enjoyed the joy of ranking first on Melon's TOP 100 for the first time since his debut with 'Love Always Runs Away'. In addition, it ranked first on the Melon OST daily, weekly, and monthly charts.
Meanwhile, after the double single 'Polaroid' was released on the 15th of last month, Lim Young-woong showed himself as the strongest music source by sweeping the top rankings on various music sites.
As of recently, it ranked 1st and 2nd in Melon's latest 4 weeks, and maintained 1st and 2nd place on the Genie and Bugs real-time charts, respectively. It also ranked first in Melon's latest TOP 100 and swept the top rankings on almost all music sites.
And Lim Young-woong swept the awards for Artist of the Year and Album of the Year at the '2022 Melon Music Awards', including the Male Singer Award at the '2022 Mama Awards', as well as the Top 10, Best Male Solo, and Netizen Popularity Awards, winning as many as five awards.
In addition, it won the grand prize in the 'Stage of the Year' category at the 2022 Asia Artist Awards (AAA). In addition, they showed off their spirit by winning four awards, receiving the Fabulous Award, Hot Trend Award, and DCM Popularity Award decided by fans' votes.
Choi Ji-ye, Ten Asia Reporter wisdomart@tenasia.co.kr