BTS Jimin and Jungkook… Won ‘Best K-Pop’ at ‘2024 MTV EMA’

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Jimin of the group BTS showed off the status of BTS by winning ‘Best K-Pop‘ at the ‘MTV Europe Music Awards’, Europe’s largest pop music awards ceremony.

On the 10th (local time), the ‘2024 MTV Europe Music Awards’ (hereinafter ‘MTV EMA’) selected Jimin as this year’s ‘Best K-Pop’ winner. Following Jungkook, who was named the winner of ‘Best K-Pop’ last year, a BTS member won the trophy in this category for the second consecutive year. ‘MTV EMA’ newly established ‘Best K-Pop’ in 2021, and BTS was named to the list of winners as a team that year.

Jimin’s second solo album ‘MUSE’ and title song ‘Who’, which were released in July this year, are still receiving great love on various global charts almost four months after their release. It seems that this popularity also influenced the ‘MTV EMA’ awards. ‘MUSE’ and ‘Who’ have been charting on the US Billboard’s ‘Billboard 200’ and ‘Hot 100’ for 15 consecutive weeks. It has stayed on the UK Official Chart for 16 weeks, showing off its worldwide popularity. ‘Who’ is still in the ‘Top 5’ at 4th place in the world’s largest music streaming platform Spotify’s latest ‘Weekly Top Song Global’ (counting period: November 1-7).

‘Who’ gave solo artist Jimin the best performance. This song entered the UK’s Official Singles Chart (counting period: July 26 – August 1) at number 4, recording the highest ranking for Jimin’s solo song on this chart. Additionally, in the first week of release, it swept the top spots in detailed charts such as ‘Single Sales’, ‘Single Downloads’, and ‘Physical Single Sales’.

Meanwhile, BTS is actively pursuing solo activities and is showing off its overwhelming influence. Jimin will present an exhibition encompassing his 1st solo album ‘FACE’ and 2nd solo album ‘MUSE’ activities in Los Angeles, USA on November 29th and Tokyo, Japan on January 10th next year. Jin will release his first solo album ‘Happy’ at 2pm on the 15th. Songs of various genres based on the band sound are included, giving a glimpse of Jin’s further developed musical capabilities. In addition, Jin is raising expectations by participating in the overall production of the album, including writing the lyrics for the b-side song ‘In Longing’.

The documentary film ‘RM: Right People, Wrong Place’, which contains the making of RM’s second solo album ‘Right Place, Wrong Person’ released last May, will be officially released in over 90 countries/regions around the world, including Korea, on December 5. It is opened. V will release a duet song ‘White Christmas (with V of BTS)’ with legendary pop artist Bing Crosby on December 6th.