Thania Garcia Jimin of BTS has become the first South Korean soloist to lead the singles chart with “Like Crazy” off his debut solo album “Face,” which starts at No.
2 on Billboard’s albums chart. The six-song EP, which incorporates songs in English and Korean, debuts with the equivalent of 164,000 sales in the U.S., including 124,000 copies sold as a complete package and nearly 20 million streams.
The new release scored the second-biggest opening week for an album this year after Morgan Wallen’s “One Thing at a Time” broke through with half a million units. “Face” was preceded by Jimin’s first top 40-charting song as a soloist on the songs list, “Set Me Free, Pt.
2″ (debuted at No. 30). Meanwhile, “Like Crazy” tops this week’s Hot 100 chart, sliding Miley Cyrus’s “Flowers” to a No. 2 slot. “Like Crazy” peaks at the summit powered by the undeniably strong pull of its sales.
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