Jimin's 'Who' Makes Billboard History With 80-Week Run on Global Chart
No active promotions. No Western feature. Just a song outlasting almost everything else on the chart.
BTS member Jimin's 2024 single "Who" has now spent 80 weeks on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart, becoming the first and only K-pop solo track to reach that mark. The record is notable for another reason: Jimin was in the South Korean military for the majority of that run, having enlisted in December 2023 and serving until his discharge on June 11, 2025.
"Who," the lead single from his second album MUSE, debuted at No. 1 on the Global Excl. U.S. chart in July 2024 with 76 million streams in a single week outside the United States. It topped the chart twice. Since then it has simply refused to leave - climbing to No. 17 on Billboard's 2025 year-end Global Excl. U.S. chart after ranking No. 99 on the same annual tally in 2024, when it had only three months of tracking data.
Jimin's own catalog holds the next two longest records on the chart. His debut single "Like Crazy," from the 2023 album FACE, sits at 68 weeks - second all-time among K-pop solo songs. Both tracks reached those totals without any collaboration with a Western artist.
MUSE is simultaneously running up its own record on the Billboard World Albums chart, now at 81 weeks - the longest run ever for a K-pop solo album. The album has topped that chart eight times, and combined with FACE's five No. 1 weeks, Jimin holds 13 World Albums chart-toppers as a solo act. No other K-pop solo artist has more.
The numbers carry added weight given the circumstances. MUSE was released in July 2024 while Jimin was mid-service, with no tour, no press run, and no live appearances to drive momentum. The catalog has done the work on its own.
All seven BTS members have now completed their military service, with Jimin and Jung Kook among the last to be discharged. The group's full reunion activities are expected through 2026.
