As per request, here are some of the most iconic, historic and amazing moments that have happened in the life and the successful career of Park Jimin. The fashion world loves him - We got to find out that the LV Frontman Jimin was the reason that BTS became LV’s brand ambassadors. What caught the brand's attention was when one of their shirts he wore in a low quality interview was immediately sold out.
Slaying the LV collab (gq and vogue covers) Being the Global ambassador for Dior. Jimin is the first Asian male to ever be Dior’s Global Brand Ambassador. Following the news about this partnership, Dior’s stock price peaked at the highest they have ever been in Dior’s entire history of 31 years of being on the stock market.
The news about Jimin being their global ambassador also was discussed all over the financial media. Jimin was also the name on everyone's lips in last year's Paris fashion week, when attending Diors show, Jimin drew in the largest crowd the Dior has ever seen and also the largest crowd that the fashion week as a whole has ever seen. After Jimin’s appearance at this event, Dior’s Earned Media Value rose by 370% (~35.
1M $) , which was twice as much as Dior’s closest competitor Yves Saint Laurent. Another brand who managed to snatch Jimin up was Tiffany & Co, in March they announced Jimin as their new Global House Ambassador naming Jimin as a pop icon representing the 21st century. The way Jimin pulled such large crowds in Paris fashion week for Dior, he did the same in NYC when he was just attending Tiffany and Co event.
When BTS members did their own photo portfolios, Jimin came up with these iconic looks and the overall concept. Jimin’s photo portfolio was the fastest to sell out in both Global and USA weverse shops, respectively under a minute and under a half a minute. The birth of Thee alley cat Jimin in 2022 BTS Season’s greetings.
BE album era Jimin. All these flowers and yet Jimin is the prettiest. Showing off his moon tattoos in the Face album photoshoots.
And the fact that he got the idea to tattoo all of the moon phases down his back from a fanart. His brand value - being able to sell out everything he’s associated with. Starting a new fashion trend - using Dior stars as a bag decoration as seen in his airport looks.
Media reports: "Female fans of Jimin started to shop in the men's section of the stores specifically to get the silver stars that Jimin had. ” ”Jimin's ability to consistently reinvent fashion norms with such ingenuity never fails to amaze his admirers. " Economist, a financial news agency in Korea, reported that Dior posted a record-high annual revenue of over 1 Trillion Won or 746 million dollars for the first time in its 27 years of operations in South Korea in 2023!
Dior is now one of only three luxury brands in South Korea to earn more than 1 Trillion Won annually in revenue. Promise was the first gift from Jimin to the fans, a surprise drop uploaded on Soundcloud broke the first 24 hour release record with 8. 5 million streams, breaking at the time Drke’s 24 hour record.
As of right now “Promise” is in the Guinness World Record book as the most streamed song in soundcloud history and in the first 24 hours. With You, his first collaboration outside BTS, having the record of the fastest song in history to reach number 1 in 100 countries on iTunes, Jimin did it in only 4 hours breaking the previous record held by Dynamite in 8 hours. As of today this record still stands.
Jimin being the first and only artist in the world to have 6 songs with an 'All kill' - 119 #1's on iTunes Worldwide. And giving artists like Ha Sungwoon, Loco and even BTS their first ever all kill. When Jimin debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with a self-written and self-produced, Korean song, ‘Like Crazy’ and broke a 65-year-old record.
And doing that with only 9 days of promotions and no western collaborations. Jimin is also the first and only korean soloist to ever reach #1 on the Billboard’s Artist 100 chart. Becoming the first ever korean soloist to have a solo song reach 1 billion streams on spotify with Like Crazy!
It’s also the fastest Korean song to do so, surpassing My Universe by Coldplay and BTS. Following up on the previous point, in 2023 Jimin achieved the Guinness World Record for being the fastest ever Korean artist to reach 1 billion streams on Spotify with his solo song Like Crazy. This year Jimin’s song Who surpassed 1 billion streams, making Jimin the fastest korean male act and male act overall to do so with a solo song.
Being the first and only korean soloist with 2 solo songs surpassing 1 billion streams on Spotify. Achieving this on his own, with his credits and without any other artist feature. On week 2 the song “Who” had a new peak position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, this made it the first and only k-soloist song to reach a new peak in its 2nd week of release this decade.
First and only solo song to peak higher than debut position this decade. And being the first BTS and BTS member’s song to peak higher than debut position since DNA by BTS. WHO being the longest charting song by a korean act on the Billboard streaming Songs chart this decade, surpassing Dynamite by BTS and Cupid by Fifty Fifty.
Being the korean soloists that owns a lot of the major music markets. In the UK he has the fastest song by kpop soloist to be BRIT certified Silver. The most songs reaching #1 on iTunes (16).
The biggest debut, longest charting and most streamed solo song on spotify. And the highest-peaking solo song on apple music. In the US, where a lot of Korean companies are only dreaming about just entering the charts, Jimin is the best selling kpop soloist in 2024 in pure albums sales.
He is also the most streamed korean soloist in history on US Spotify. Jimin became the first and only korean act in history to have multiple songs surpass 100 million streams on spotify USA chart, with Like Crazy -first, and Who - the fastest. With these songs he also owns the #1 Best Selling K-pop songs in the US by total units for two years in a row!
His album “Muse” is now also the most-streamed album by a K-pop soloist in US Spotify history. Who is also the first and only song by a Korean act to spend 100 days in the Top 10 of US Spotify charts. In his home country Jimin is now the longest charting act in history at #1 on the Spotify South Korea Daily Top Artists Chart surpassing BTS!
Jimin has spend more than 450 days at #1 on the chart. Not to mention that before last month Spotify Korea did not even have a free streaming option. Jimin now holds the top 2 longest running #1 hits in Spotify South Korea history with Like Crazy and Who.
MUSE is the fastest korean solo album to reach 1 Billion streams and Jimin is the first korean solo artist to have multiple albums reach 1 Billion streams, he also did it in the shortest time. Face - 6 months, Muse - 1 month and 2 weeks. Jimin has the 2 most streamed solo songs on the Spotify Global Daily chart in history.
(Like Crazy and Who) With no help from his company and while being in the military Jimin is also the longest charting Korean soloist on the Billboard 100 chart. Some of these iconic note changes. Jimin also, all throughout his schooling, was on top of his class, achieving perfect scores, especially in math, he was even called the “God of Math” and would cover for his math teacher, he was also good at and liked science, arts and physical education.
He was a part of the student council from elementary to high school, that’s 9 years of switching between class president and class vice president. He was a part of the robotics building club, football club. He was a part of a book club, was excellent at track and a part of billiards club.
He also had the time to train in various forms of martial arts, such as Taekwondo, in which he has a blackbelt, Hapkido, and Kendo for 8 years. He was also the first and only freshman offered a scholarship to study martial arts more extensively abroad in China. When Japanese magazine mi–mollet retracted Jimin’s early footsteps in Busan, one of the cafe owners where Jimin used to eat at said, “Jimin was good at studying, especially math.
He kindly supported disabled friends and was always on the class committee. ” Jimin’s popping dance teacher has said, “He had many friends and was the type to get on well with others. He was intelligent, had leadership, and was the class president at school.
There were times he would warn his friends who were being naughty, but it didn’t make anyone feel unpleasant because he talks very well and politely. ” Jimin was already quite popular amongst his peers, one of his old classmates has said that at the high school retreat, girls went crazy after he danced to the song “Mirotic” by T V X Q, taking off his glasses and even showing off his abs. All the girls went crazy over him and ran to the stage to see him, the stage even collapsed.
They also flocked to the school’s bathroom to see him so the entrance door of the toilet was torn out. Jimin was admitted into the Busan High School of Arts as a valedictorian in the Modern dance department. Jimin took on various dance styles, such as contemporary dance, jazz, korean dance, ballet.
Jimin was even called “The rising star of Busan”. In 2022 Jimin also received an honorary diploma from the Busan High School of arts. When Jimin was giving all of us these amazing dance covers.
His major impact on South Korea's economy. Jimin eating spicy chicken ramen caused a global craze so massive that the manufacturer, Samyang Foods has - Built a new factory due to Jimin's impact. Publicly thanked Jimin on air.
And also became the main sponsor of the Permission to dance Las Vegas concerts thanks to Jimin. Even his birthday celebrations have an impact on South Korea's economy. We all know that Jimin’s birthday celebrations in the month of october are like a big festival.
A lot of local shops and cafes usually thank Jimin’s fans for helping their business bloom at this time. Jimin’s economic impact is also recognized by the cities themselves, allowing Jimin’s dedicated fan bases to go through with projects that they wouldn’t allow for others. Since Jimin's birthday is a huge event where many people gather and boost Seouls and Busans local economy, the Busan local government plans to form an official task force to manage safety during Jimin's birthday week in the next year and year’s after that.
The first idol generating so much traffic that the local government needs to get involved. They don’t call him Busan Prince and Korea's favorite son for nothing. In the new Forbes Korea list of Top 40 Powerful Celebrities of 2024 Jimin ranked #7.
He is the highest ranking K-pop soloist on the list! This list is the Korean version of “Highest paid Celebrity 100”, selected by Forbes in the United States. Forbes Korea list is based on the celebrity's one year income, taking in account music, performances, movie and broadcast appearance fees, advertisements, brand deals and annual salary; it’s also based on media, social media and broadcast influence.
His Billboard Hot 100 #1 also shook the whole Korean music industry, not only did Hybe see a sudden, big jump in their stock prices but also other idol companies finally saw an upward going trend. When his production diary amassed a large viewing and profit. It was viewed by around 510,000 people right when it came out, and those being only the paid views just like that garnered him more than 10 million dollars.
Once again showcasing his It boyism. When you love what you do and want to share it with your fans - they will most certainly tune in. After posting a couple of pictures on his instagram profile after visiting Jeju island, the tourism in places where he visited flourished.
He even got his own photo zone and mural. Even almost a year later there’s still a huge queue of people that want to recreate Jimin’s photos as there now is an official “Jimin Tour” on the island. Face of Korea strikes again.
Similar thing happened when Jimin posted his individual video on BTS 'youtube channel where he chose to make bracelets in his free time! After the video went live, the bracelet making shop posted on instagram thanking fans for the big interest and support, and for booking all of the available classes. After his solo debut he was the most nominated artist at the 2023 MAMA awards, taking home the Best male artist award.
This year he took home the grand prize for Fan’s choice awards, becoming the first kpop soloist to do so since 2014. Plus he kept the BTS streak alive. When he joined BTS as being the only asian artists to be nominated for the Top Selling Song category at 2023 Billboard music awards.
Jimin is also the first ever soloist in history to win the TMA Popularity Award. King of Kpop won this year's MTV European Music award for the Best K-pop act. Winning the Best main dancer and King of Kpop plaques at the MMA awards.
Jimin being the only idol to be a part of 2 hollywood franchises as an OST singer - his produced song Friends being used in the movie Eternals and the song he’s a part of - Angel part 1, being one of the OST’s for Fast and Furious 10. At the 2018 Mama Awards Jimin did a 30 second Fan Dance. After this performance he was trending in 40 countries with over 2 million views.
Later he even received a Plaque of Appreciation and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism put him on the cover of a magazine. He was also named The face of Korean Traditional dance in China, promoted by the Korean Cultural center. First idol to have 3 national awards - Order of cultural Merit, Van Fleet Award that he got together with the rest of BTS members, and the 3rd one is the previously mentioned Fan Dance plaque - the only idol that has received a national award for his dancing.
The iconic Fake love fancam - the first to surpass 100 million views. It was also trending for over 72 hours after its release and was awarded as “The very best content material in Mnet’s 2018”. After this fans of other idols started to put a lot more importance on the fancam views.
This unforgettable performance that showcased Jimin’s ability to merge together his background in contemporary dance and Korean traditional dance. The stan attractor Jimin has had multiple unintentional killer parts in BTS songs, such as - MAMA 2014 awards when, aside from BTS, the keyword Jimin was the only BTS member’s name individually trending worldwide. Blood sweat and tears intro - he “nae pittam nunmulled” so hard that he changed the trajectory of kpop forever.
K-media also gave him the nickname “opening fairy”. Fire 3 3 3, Not today 4 24, Butter 1 11, critics singled out his part as one that would keep the people listening to the song. This magical fancam where Jimin looks like he’s floating or gliding on the ice.
As always making full movements with his arms and legs. And moving his whole body precisely and at the same time never stopping the movements, everything is connected and flows with the melody of the music. In 2015 The one with the orange hair in the BTS “Perfect man” cover also went viral.
We should also talk about the phenomenal Filter stage in which Jimin had input in everything, from the use of props to the choreo, making things more difficult for himself to show everyone a great stage and performance. Not to mention how he left everyone amazed with his magical clothing change. Teen Vogue also listed Jimin’s Standout Performance of Filter in its feature “The Best K-pop Moments of 2020.
” His Black Swan intro at their Permission to dance on stage concert that reminded us of his iconic Filter performance. His Black Swan solo performance at Map of the soul concert and his hidden away solo dance at the Hybe museum. Jimin’s official solo debut with this iconic pre-release single.
Set me free part 2 announces Jimin’s solo arrival in a major way - big horns, amazing choir, assertive lyrics and a serious beat that left everyone gagged. Imagine starting your solo career with something this grand. The summoning Park Jimin trend that the fans started.
His collab stage with Taemin, later also this iconic dance challenge with him. His performance at the Seo Taiji concert. Jimin performing the sexy version of Go Go.
This. You can say that it is another Jimin killing part in a BTS song. When this fancam of Jimin during the Love Yourself tour went viral on twitter.
Jimin’s immaculate stage presence in Love Yourself tour Hong Kong - or the birth of Kitty Gang Jimin. His love for microphone flips. When he received the most female votes of whom you wanted to see at the finish line.
Jimin being Rookies Idol and Idol of Idols. Jimin's solo performances are called the "Rite of Passage" as many rookie & junior idols try to cover them and Jimin is referred to as Rookies or Idols bible, as he is a great role model to them due to his personality, dance, stage presence and other charms. Under the groups name Jimin’s first solo song “Lie”, in which Jimin was credited as a songwriter and a composer, at the time was the only solo song from “Wings” album to rank on Inkigayo Chart, it was highest ranking solo song on Melon Music Chart, it was also the only solo song and b side that charted Spotify Global Viral 50.
Also while “Blood, sweat and tears” ranked #1 on World Digital Song Sales chart, “Lie” ranked #3 and became the best selling solo song in “Wings” album. When Rollingstone India selected Jimin's Lie stage for the “Eight unforgettable contemporary dance performances by kpop stars". Writing, “This performance constantly instills a sense of challenge in junior idols and trainees, and cover stages are pouring down to this day.
” Taking it to another level and performing Lie blindfolded. Dance teacher and commander Jimin is serious about his craft and often behind the scenes you can see him helping to improve the choreography, giving his ideas and helping other members learn the choreo. This 2020 Boy with love performance where his jacket gets stuck and he plays it off like a pro and creates another cute moment.
From the front it looks alright and that everyone gets to sit down at the same time but from the side it’s a different story. And here his in ear is clearly not working so he rips it off and does the hard choreo without it while getting hit with it in the face repeatedly but that doesn’t stop him from going full out. K-media has also named Jimin as The Standard of Kpop, mentioning, “Jimin is Korea’s best idol in various ways, including his dancing skills, popularity, brand power, visuals and singing ability, therefore many juniors want to follow in his steps and also become kpop idols” Global Citizen featured BTS in “7 Ways BTS Inspires the World to Create Lasting Change.
” mentioning Jimin as one to support everyone's right to learn. Jimin, also named Pride of Busan, has made several donations to support education in his home community, donating money and resources to help students in need of financial assistance. He makes donations quietly by himself or through his dad.
Jimin is a part of the “Green Noble Club for Children” as a high value donator. Most recent news that we got about Jimin was about him donating 100 million won to educational institutions including schools and libraries. And of him donating to his hometown in Busan to a program made to promote residents welfare, supporting the vulnerable and protecting youth.
Also right before he enlisted into the military training, he made a private donation in the form of scholarships for students at the Dong-Eui Institute of Technology in Busan. And this year he made a donation to the Army's Comradeship Fund to support the injured and killed soldiers and their families. An idol who frequently writes beautiful songs for fans.
Promise. Closer than this. Letter.
When he changed jackets just because a fan site could not take good photos of him because of the sparkles reflecting. He’s sweetest to the fans. The letter he wrote to fans.
Mature enough so older BTS members go to him for advice. When he said “men this, men that, what the heck is men” when others said men don’t check their selfies. There was no surprise to Jimin fans that Jimin will do good in his military training, given his mature and level headed approach to life and his athletic background.
Jimin received the division commander’s commendation, which is given to the top trainee among all trainees after their 5 week training period, during this time he attained the highest marks in the different assessments. And of course true to his sweet and caring nature, there have been different testimonials from other recruits from Jimin’s unit posting their experiences training alongside Jimin. They praised him for helping them to improve their ranking in the assessments, some of them even getting to the top 10 position thanks to him, others praise him for giving up his allocated phone time to other recruits and for buying them food.
Jimin had also been assigned to the Artillery Battalion and the newest news informs us that Jimin was participating in combat training at the Korean Combat Training Center which is said to be the toughest training of all in the Korean military. He’s assigned to be the Artillery Brain during the training. After successfully completing the training, he was awarded the prestigious title of “Special Warrior” or “Special Grade Soldier”.
Jimin has always impressed everyone with his speech of warm comfort, empathy, and sincere consideration. Because of this k-media even has named him “The Human Dictionary of Pretty Words”. He has also been praised by experts for his speech at various events, one of them would be the Annual Youth Day where Jimin delivered his speech without any script with elegance and sincerity.
And most recently would be the speech that he presented at the UN General Assembly. I also have to include the most famous moment in Run BTS history. Jimin was name dropped in relation to the Barbie movie, Ryan Gosling or Ken gave Jimin a guitar as a gift because he stole one of Jimin's looks and that is not a real Ken thing to do!
Even when Jimin is out of the public eye, Hollywood still manages to mention him! Jimin has also been a muse for various artists. One of them is a Korean artist Lee K.
He even has a highlight on his instagram called “Muse '' dedicated to Jimin paintings. In 2022 Jimin’s painting by Lee K. was even displayed at exhibition at the Carrousel du Louvre and it attracted more than 10 thousand visitors.
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