MUSIC
Ive achieves 100 million streams on Spotify for 'I am'... 4th overall
Ive's title song 'I AM' from his first full-length album 'I've IVE', which was released on April 10th, has accumulated 1 play count on Spotify, the world's largest music streaming company, as of the 27th. exceeded a billion times.
With this, Ive has the fourth streaming song to reach 100 million following his debut song 'ELEVEN', 'LOVE DIVE', and 'After LIKE'.
Currently, 'Eleven', 'Love Dive', and 'After Like' have recorded over 200 million streams on Spotify. The double title track of the regular album, “Kitsch,” also recorded more than 69.16 million streams, and the cumulative number of plays reached a total of 960,260,846 (as of the 28th) with only the 5 title songs released so far.
Ive's official activities for the regular album have ended, but he is receiving steady love and boasting long-running popularity on major music charts in Korea and global charts with the double title songs 'I Am' and 'Kitch'. In particular, 'I.M.' achieved the triple crown on SBS's 'Inkigayo' on the 25th, ranking first for two weeks in a row. With this, Ive won 9 crowns for 'I Am' and 2 crowns for 'Kichi', and won a total of 11 crowns for the double title song of the regular album.
According to the latest chart (as of July 1) released by Billboard, an American music media, on the 27th (local time), Ive ranked 57th on the 'Billboard Global 200' chart with 'I.M.' It succeeded in consecutive chart-ins. On the 'Billboard Global Excl. US' chart, 'I Am' ranked 26th, and 'Kichi', which has been on the chart for 13 weeks, ranked 116th.
Ive continues to meet Asian fans through his first fan concert 'The Prom Queens'.
Reporter Kim Ji-won, Ten Asia bella@tenasia.co.kr
