BTS V 'Friends' Goes Over 580 Million Spotify

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BTS (BTS) V's solo song "Friends" (FRI(END)S) became popular with more than 580 million streams on Spotify.

The digital single "Friends" recorded 580 million streams on Spotify, the world's largest music streaming platform. Released on March 15, 2024, "Friends" is a pop soul R&B genre song with luscious melodies and witty lyrics.

You can appreciate V's vocals, which have been evaluated by Billboard as "the backbone of BTS's sound with a wide range of vocal range and deep voice stones." Friends showed a variety of tones by freely crossing the low notes and falsetto.

"Friends" debuted at No. 65 on the U.S. Billboard main single chart "Hot 100," No. 3 on Billboard Global (excluding the U.S.) and No. 5 on "Global 200," despite V's absence from his military service. UK's 'UK Official Chart' singles chart enters 13th place. It has been on the chart for two consecutive weeks, and debuted at No. 3 on the UK's biggest chart, the Official Big Top 40 chart, with tracking in just two days.

It also reached No. 1 on Worldwide iTunes and European iTunes, and became the first song in the world to top the iTunes charts in 100 countries to be released in 2024. Amazon Music and Apple Music were named the "2024 Best K-Pop". It was also selected as the background music for the popular American drama series "The Summer I Turned Pretty" Season 3 and received a lot of love from the public.

V, who is also an actor, helped increase the song's immersion with his outstanding performance in IU's music video as well as BTS's. In "Friends," V drew rave reviews for his outstanding performance, which three-dimensionally expressed conflicting characters in different situations, when he was alone and with his lover. Since its release, the music video has topped YouTube's world trend music category for 14 consecutive days, and became the first K-pop artist to top the U.S. "Tidal Top Video" chart.

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