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📰 #BTSV's “Christmas Tree” M/V has surpassed 20M views on YouTube, showing it continued popularity “#V_ChristmasTree” became the first in Korean OST history and highest ranking solo song by a Korean male to rank on Billboard’s “Hot 100” chart.
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📰 #BTSV has recorded the highest ranking on the Gaon Chart's “Annual Cumulative Gaon Index” as a male Korean soloist with “#V_Christmas Tree” at #19. The song has maintained a top 20 ranking for 6 consecutive weeks.
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📰 #BTSV surprised fans w/ a practice video after answering a question on Weverse on whether he’s still golfing. V responded that he had taken a 3-wk break. Last month, V surprised fans by posting a video of his swing & the ball’s distance of over 180m.
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📰 WW media, including US’Billboard & UK’s NME, recently published the news popular "idol #BTSV will be releasing a mix tape this year. When asked by fans if he will include the songs he’s released snippets of, V said no & that sadly, he’d deleted them.
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📰#BTSV continues to prove his popularity by ranking #1 on idol ranking site, Nehan and actors in their 20s site Bihan for 50 & 46 weeks, respectively. Additionally, V continues to show his strong presence as a solo artist there, achieving many records.
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📰 Including his Facebook fancam, which has 12M views, #BTSV extends his record number of fancams with over 10M views to 19, an incredible feat! Most recently, V’s performance of “Spine Breaker” during BTS’ 5th Muster surpassed 10M views.
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#V_ChristmasTree has acheived 1 million Shazams, the fastest Korean soundtrack to achieve this. KING OF OST V is the male idol with the most shazamed solo! Congratulations Taehyung~ #ChristmasTreeShazam1M
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📰 #BTSV's “#V_ChristmasTree” has surpassed 75 million streams on Spotify in the shortest period of time. The song was also quickest to record 60 and 65 million streams in the shortest period of time on Spotify.
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📰In the 271 edition of “Big Issue,” #BTSV was evaluated by columnist Isaac Choi as an idol whose existence itself is “art. Among other things, Choi explained that V has a good mask, a phrase mainly used to describe actors, because he can play any role.
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📰 During an interview between Grammy winner John Batiste & the “GRAMMY AWARDS,” the jazz musician talked about plans to meet #BTSV in Vegas. Said Batiste, “I've been talking to V from BTS, he's an incredible musician...”
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📰 #BTSV continues to gain followers on Spotify at an impressive rate, surpassing 6.5M followers w/ just three OSTs. After the release of “#V_ChristmasTree” on Christmas Eve last year, V's followers increased rapidly, proving his popularity.
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📰#BTSV has placed first in the “TOP 100 - Most Handsome Faces Of K-POP,” sponsored by Brazilian entertainment site “Debame.” Since 2017, when V was named #1 on the “2017 World's 100 Most Handsome Faces” by TC Candler, V has collected title after title.
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📰 Recently, SportsTrace, a “company providing comprehensive data and intuitive insights to athletes in a format that is simple and easy to understand,” evaluated the golf swing posted by #BTSV. Said the company, “This is a very impressive golf swing."
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📰 #BTSV has recorded the highest ranking of Korean males on the Instagram influencer ranking at #15, proving his unrivaled social power. At the time of the writing of this article, his Instagram account has 37.24M followers.
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📰 In #BTSV’s making video posted by “7 FATES: CHAKHO,”he showed off a variety of charms and a soft face line that stood out on the screen with different angles, creating a neutral atmosphere contrasting with his strong masculinity.
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📰 In less than 3 months since it’s release, #BTSV’S “#V_ChristmasTree” has surpassed 1M Shazams, the fastest record in Korean OST history. With it, V also holds the record for the most Shazams among K-pop solo artists in 2022.
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📰#BTSV gave fans a laugh w/his latest Insta post of his viral “Taechwita” meme from BTS’ 2021 Muster. V made the post even funnier w/ his caption, which came to be, “May I make just one request before zi d!e ? 🧎🏻♂️Ayo district magistrate, drop the beat.”
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📰 With “#V_ChristmasTree,” #BTSV recently topped Morocco's Spotify “Top 200 Songs,” setting the best record for an Asian solo artist there. In addition, V also set the highest record for an Asian solo artist on the “Top Artists Chart” at #11.
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📰 #BTSV continues to prove his popularity in Japan by topping major local idol & actor ranking sites for nearly a year, including Korean idol site Nehan & Korean actors site Bihan for 51 & 47 weeks, respectively.
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📰 “V Mural,” installed at V's alma mater was created last year at Daesung Elementary School in honor of #BTSV's birthday,will be extended by 25m for a total of 58m. Daegu Seo-gu Office announced that the mural increased tourism in the area.
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🌲 Which team can first unlock 700 streaming screenshots for #V_ChristmasTree? Use the hashtags to be counted! 🐯🐻
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📰 Brazilian music media “POPline” recently reported a huge achievement by #BTSV, that with only 3 songs, “It’s Definitely You,” “Sweet Night” & “#V_ChristmaTree,” he had surpassed 100M streams, the first & only Korean solo artist to do so in 2022.
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📰 E-commerce big data analysis company “Allfy” announced that #BTSV had ranked 1st as a “Mega Influencer” last week w/ over 35M likes on 3 newly posted photos. V ranked 12th on the WW influencer rankings, highest for an Asian male & a top influencer.
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📰Given the nickname “fancam king” by fans, #BTSV recently proved again his moniker when foreign media posted the top 10 “Most Viewed Fancams of All Time” for male and female idols & V took half the spots. V also has the most viewed fancam of all time.
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📰 #BTSV is again the source of inspiration for artists, recently appearing in a mother-of-pearl piece by artist Kim Il-joong and a mural by graffiti artist Jongbae Lee (stage name STAZ) who published his on his SNS.
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